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This week in PC games: survival horror in a waterlogged city, kaiju chaos in a destructible city, and old school GTA vibes in an isometric insurgency simulator
Videogames. Gosh there are a lot of them. We’re not even into the hell month of September – where every major developer besides Rockstar seems to be releasing their big games of the year – and we’re looking at a packed week. Below you will find the whittled down pickings that stood out to me,…
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“I’m remaking all of Ocarina of Time’s prerenders in 3D” – I’d play this dev’s Zelda N64 romhack over the remake, and better still, “no GenAI was used for any part”
A modder is creating a Zelda Ocarina of Time ROM hack for N64 that swaps out the prerendered backdrops with full 3D buildings and a free camera.
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Satellite operators are in panic mode due to a worsening launch crisis
What happens if the Falcon rockets stop flying?
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How to take better photos of your pets
Like the pets of any self-respecting millennial, my cats have their own Instagram account. Noodle and Loaf – aka Carb Cats – aren’t exactly celebrities. But they are used to having their photos taken a lot. Between their Instagram account, my regular need to test smartphone cameras, and the fact that they are two adorable…
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Whisker’s AI-powered litter robot thinks my cats swapped bodies
The greatest invention in pet tech in recent years is the litter robot. A machine that scoops your kitties’ poop so you don’t have to – what else could a cat owner possibly want? How about insights into your kitty’s litter box usage that could flag health issues? Sign me up. But I have two…
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London Film Festival Competition Lineup: Aimee Lou Wood’s ‘The Idiot(s),’ Mackenzie Davis’ Sci-Fi Romance ‘My Notes on Mars,’ Hirokazu Kore-eda’s ‘Look Back’ and More
The 70th edition of the BFI London Film Festival has revealed its official competition, with 10 titles set to compete for the best film award. The films selected represent 10 countries, including the U.K., Ireland, Brazil, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, and Poland. The winner will be chosen by the LFF awards jury. Among…
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Anthropic explains how Claude’s invisible text watermarks will work
Anthropic has clarified how it’s planning to apply invisible watermarks to Claude-generated text in order to comply with Europe’s AI transparency rules. On Friday, Anthropic announced that Claude’s text marking system is “a version of the SynthID-Text approach” – an open-source watermarking technology developed by Google DeepMind that creates detectable patterns using wording probabilities. This…
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Excel’s Copilot function is headed for the Recycle Bin
Microsoft realizes the side pane should be enough for anyone
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U.S. Leadership on AI Requires Strategic Interdependence
China is tapping America’s AI knowledge pipeline. The answer is managed precision openness.
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Senior Russian banker fired after scathing speech on wartime economy
Andrei Klepach of VEB said Russia’s economy was falling behind China, US and ‘in some respects Ukraine’ Europe live – latest updates The chief economist at Russia’s second-largest bank has been fired after a series of critical comments about the state of the economy, including warnings that Moscow would not win a prolonged economic war…