A coordinated effort called “National Only Citizens Vote” has been rolled out this week by a coalition of people pushing conspiracy theories about immigrants voting in the November election.
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Palmer Luckey returns to headsets as Anduril partners with Microsoft on U.S. military tech
Palmer Luckey, the Hawaiian-shirt wearing founder who sold Oculus VR for $2 billion before co-founding the military tech company Anduril, is back in the headset business — in a sense. Anduril has teamed up with Microsoft to embed its software into the Integrated Visual Augmentation […]
Solid-state battery prototype boosts energy density by nearly 25 percent
Solid-state batteries have the potential to make EVs far more affordable and practical, but their commercial development has a record of false promises that would make Tesla’s full self-driving blush. That means reporting on them is tricky, but we’re seeing some promising news from Imec, […]
Content Creators in the Adult Industry Want a Say in AI Rules
A group that includes sex workers, sex tech businesses, and sex educators has demanded a seat at the table to shape AI regulations that they say could lead to discrimination against them.
Nintendo and The Pokémon Company are suing Palworld creator Pocketpair
Nintendo and The Pokémon Company have filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Pocketpair in Tokyo. Pocketpair is the Japanese video game developer behind Palworld, a game people have been describing as a Pokémon parody, featuring cute gun-toting monsters. The game, released in Early Access form […]
Why Jensen Huang and Marc Benioff see ‘gigantic’ opportunity for agentic AI
Already, progress in agentic AI is “spectacular and surprising,” moving faster and faster and getting into the “flywheel zone,” Huang says.
YouTube is adding ‘seasons’ to make your favorite channel more like Netflix
Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube creators can now break their videos up into different seasons and episodes to make them easier for viewers to navigate — and binge watch — on TV. The upcoming feature comes as YouTube has increasingly been pushing into […]
Fal.Con 2024: CrowdStrike unveils resilient-by-design framework to bolster global cybersecurity
“It’s not only about bouncing back – it’s about staying ahead through a culture of resilience,” Kurtz emphasized during his keynote.
YouTube Shorts to integrate Veo, Google’s AI video model
The main attraction of YouTube’s Made On event on Wednesday morning was, you guessed it, artificial intelligence. The company announced that it is integrating Google DeepMind’s AI video generation model, Veo, into YouTube Shorts, letting creators generate high-quality backgrounds as well as 6-second clips. At […]
Playtika acquires mobile game maker SuperPlay for up to $1.25B
Playtika has agreed to acquire SuperPlay, a mobile gaming company in Israel for a price ranging from $700 million to $1.25 billion.