There’s a lot that was cringe-worthy about Samsung Unpacked in San Jose, where the company just unveiled its flagship S24 phone models with new tech it’s calling Galaxy AI. The focus on “influencers,” who had their own entrance to the event: cringe. The video of MrBeast, who was mostly there to pimp his chocolate bar: … Read more
A few years ago, the researchers decided to put a superconducting metal called strontium ruthenate in their crosshairs. Its structure is similar to that of a mysterious class of copper-based “cuprate” superconductors, but it can be manufactured in a more pristine way. While the team didn’t learn the secrets of the cuprates, the material responded … Read more
At first glance, the scene is unremarkable: women in wide-brimmed hats are dotted across a rice paddy field nestled in the Laotian mountains, toiling under the relentless sun. But instead of sickles, the women are carrying heavy metal detectors. Their buckets aren’t full of the staple crop, but scraps long buried in the ground. And … Read more
In 2018, Monte Cook Games released Invisible Sun, a massive tabletop game where players took on the role of vislae—newly awakened sorcerers that have returned to travel across the planes of existence in order to hone their magic after exile. It was delivered in a literal black box and sold out almost immediately, becoming a treasured … Read more
The issue with AI-created photographs is that, effectively, AI is creating photographs. Which means a easy immediate can create a relativity real looking picture of something. It isn’t troublesome to think about the problems that would come up from that reality. Google introduced on Tuesday a characteristic known as SynthID that’s aimed toward combatting deepfakes … Read more