Published on: 2025-04-19 07:43:13
A new animated kids’ series expected to premiere this year won’t be headed for a TV network. Or a streaming service. Instead, the founders of production studio We Ghosted Media plan to launch on a decentralized web platform that uses blockchain technology. And yes, a crypto wallet will be involved. We Ghosted Media — founded by Chris Jammal, an assistant director for “Bob’s Burgers,” and Jaclynn Demas, producer of hit children’s show “Peg + Cat” — is a TV production studio abandoning tradition
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-21 04:48:00
In brief: Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder long known for his focus on global health and education, has predicted that artificial intelligence could soon resolve some of the world's most persistent workforce shortages. Speaking on the "People by WTF" podcast, Gates argued that AI's rapid progress will make it possible to overcome the chronic lack of doctors and teachers – a problem that has plagued both developed and developing countries for decades. "AI will come in and provide medical IQ,
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Given how much we obsess over it, the concept of creativity can feel like something that has always existed, a thing philosophers and artists have pondered and debated throughout the ages. While it’s a reasonable assumption, it’s one that turns out to be very wrong. As Samuel Franklin explains in his recent book, The Cult of Creativity, the first known written use of creativity didn’t actually occur until 1875, “making it an infant as far as words go.” What’s more, he writes, before about 1950,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-21 02:38:32
worawit chutrakunwanit/Getty Images The world of artificial intelligence (AI) has recently been preoccupied with advancing generative AI beyond simple tests that AI models easily pass. The famed Turing Test has been "beaten" in some sense, and controversy rages over whether the newest models are being built to game the benchmark tests that measure performance. The problem, say scholars at Google's DeepMind unit, is not the tests themselves but the limited way AI models are developed. The data
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-22 03:30:35
We already knew that Mario Kart World was being released alongside the Nintendo Switch 2 on June 5 for a whopping $80 (or bundled with the Switch 2 hardware at a slight discount). But this morning, the latest Nintendo Direct gave us nearly 17 minutes of Mario Kart World gameplay. There are plenty of callbacks to classic Mario Kart modes (Balloon Battle Mode), mixed in with all-new options (Knockout Tour). Want the full download? Watch the replay below, and read our full summary of the latest Mar
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-22 03:50:16
Jurassic World Rebirth hasn’t been subtle in its marketing, emphasizing a return to the roots of the beloved summer blockbuster-turned-sprawling franchise. Hell, the movie’s title nods to this concept quite directly. A recently released trailer, doubling as a behind-the-scenes featurette, aims to solidify the film’s mission statement and put butts in theater seats, promising to deliver the same thrills as the original movie did and then some. In the aptly titled “Classic Jurassic” featurette, s
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-22 11:38:59
Global Payments shares tumbled 17% on Thursday after the company said it's buying Worldpay for more than $24 billion while simultaneously selling its Issuer Solutions business to Fidelity National Information Services . The company said that in acquiring Worldpay, which FIS had purchased in 2019 before later selling a majority stake, it's expanding its reach and will be able to serve over 6 million customers across more than 175 countries, enabling $3.7 trillion in annual payment volume. In se
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More details about Mario Kart World , the big first-party Nintendo Switch 2 launch title, were shown during a dedicated Direct on Thursday . The 17-minute presentation showcased some of the game's courses, such as the canal-based Salty Salty Speedway and spooky Boo Cinema, and revealed that some classic, reimagined courses will be dotted around the game's open world. Beyond regular races and the new Knockout Tour elimination mode, there are a bunch of other ways to play Mario Kart World. Team-b
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Nintendo held its Mario Kart World Direct on Thursday morning to show off the flagship game that'll launch with the Switch 2 in June. But even as the company showed off the game's new features, most people watching wanted one thing: For Nintendo to lower the price. Mario Kart World received backlash when it was revealed to have an $80 price tag after the Switch 2 reveal event on April 2. Those interested in the Switch successor are excited about the new games but concerned that its higher price
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-22 19:46:45
Earlier this month, Nintendo let Ars Technica and other outlets have access to a small hands-on slice of Mario Kart World ahead of its planned June 5 launch. Today, a short livestreamed video presentation gave a bit of extra information about how exactly the full version of the free-roaming Nintendo Switch 2 launch game will work in practice. As the name implies, Mario Kart World sets itself apart from previous games via a "vast interconnected world" that you can roam freely between the actual
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is a reporter who covers the business, culture, and communities of video games, with a focus on marginalized gamers and the quirky, horny culture of video game communities. Nintendo is possibly hoping to steer the narrative regarding the Switch 2 back in a positive direction by showing off its most exciting game, Mario Kart World. The publisher held a Mario Kart World direct presentation on April 17th debuting 15 minutes of gameplay which showcased many of the game’s new features. Mario Kart W
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-23 00:00:00
Heat Exchange MIT Technology Review’s guest opinion series, offering expert commentary on legal, political and regulatory issues related to climate change and clean energy. You can read the rest of the pieces here. The current 90-day pause on rolling out most of the administration’s so-called “reciprocal” tariffs presents a critical opportunity. Rather than defaulting to broad, blunt tariffs, the administration should use this window to align trade policy with a focused industrial strategy—one
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“It was just endless exploration of picking stuff up and moving it around and even just watching it move. It was mesmerizing to me. I felt like I really owned my own little robot,” he recalls. “I cherish this thing. I still have it to this day, and it’s still working.” The Armatron on the cover of the November/December 1982 issue of Robotics Age magazine. PUBLIC DOMAIN Today, Paulos builds robots and teaches his students how to build their own. He challenges them to solve problems within const
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Adolphe Yvon’s painting of the battle at Solferino ( Public domain ) On a June day near Solferino, a town in what’s now northern Italy, something depressingly common happened. Two European armies clashed in combat, and thousands of men lost their lives. The Battle of Solferino was considered an important event at the time — it was the biggest European battle since the Napoleonic Wars, and it paved the way for the establishment of an independent Italy — but it’s faded from public memory outside
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-24 11:48:25
There’s yet another Nintendo Direct coming our way, which is the third in less than a month. This one is entirely focused on the upcoming Switch 2 launch title Mario Kart World. It starts at 9AM ET and should last around 15 minutes . It’s livestreaming on Nintendo’s YouTube page , but mega-fans can also open up that recently-launched Nintendo Today! app to follow along. We are embedding the YouTube link, so feel free to keep this tab open. We have no idea what information Nintendo is going to
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In the coming years, agents are widely expected to take over more and more chores on behalf of humans, including using computers and smartphones. For now, though, they’re too error prone to be much use. A new agent called S2, created by the startup Simular AI, combines frontier models with models specialized for using computers. The agent achieves state-of-the-art performance on tasks like using apps and manipulating files—and suggests that turning to different models in different situations ma
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 08:00:00
On Sunday’s second season premiere of The Last of Us, Ellie (Bella Ramsey) experienced something familiar to queer folks of almost any generation. It’s the chill that comes when you’re showing affection to your partner in public and suddenly sense you’re being watched. Not by a Cordyceps-infected zombie but by a person who doesn’t like what they see. They sling slurs—as Seth did during Sunday’s premiere—or worse. Sometimes, you have someone like Joel (Pedro Pascal) who will have your back. Often
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Disney is reimagining the Walt Disney Studios portion of its Disneyland Paris park into Disney Adventure World, and that means fresh new attractions. Two of them will be themed around the 1994 Lion King movie and 2009’s Up, with both getting their first big theme park attractions to celebrate their respective 30th and 15th anniversaries in 2024. On Saturday, Disney revealed construction on Lion King’s previously announced (and currently unnamed) ride will begin in the fall. Parkgoers will go on
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-29 23:00:00
While Netflix is busy pumping out more series than any one person could watch (probably), some of the best shows are on Amazon Prime Video. Trouble is, navigating the service’s labyrinthine menus can make finding the right series a pain. We’re here to help. Below are our favorite Amazon series—all included with your Prime subscription. For more viewing picks, read WIRED’s guide to the best movies on Amazon Prime, the best movies on HBO’s Max, and the best movies on Netflix. If you buy somethin
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-01 19:00:16
While the overall reaction to Captain America: Brave New World was decidedly mixed, there was one thing everyone agreed on. The action scene featuring Captain America (Anthony Mackie) and the Falcon (Danny Ramirez) soaring all around Celestial Island was awesome. The flying, the explosions, the stakes, it all came together for arguably the best scene in the film. Creating a scene like that is no easy feat and, on the upcoming home release for the film, the special features dive into that. On Ap
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Storycraft — the AI-powered game platform where players create, explore, and share their own interactive story worlds — has raised a $3 million seed round. The funding for the Montreal-based startup will accelerate the global multiplatform launch of Storycraft’s multiplayer mobile game built on Google Cloud, which combines AI creative tools, online community, and social storytelling in never before seen ways. Khosla Ventures led, the round, which follows an earlier $2 million pre-seed round le
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The Esports World Cup Foundation (EWCF) announced a record-breaking $70 million-plus prize pool for the upcoming Esports World Cup 2025 (EWC). Billed as the world’s largest esports event, it is set to return to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from July 7 through August 24. With the highest stakes in esports history, the prize pool elevates EWC as one of the world’s most prestigious sporting events and reinforces the EWCF’s long-term commitment to the sustainable growth of the esports industry. The total
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With the release of the upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 I’m having an existential crisis about facing my Animal Crossing friends. Yes, like most people who needed an escape during lockdown, I found comfort and community through playing New Horizons. I was able to hang out with my best friend who lives in Japan and so many others through late night hours of anxiety as we all went through it. The squabbles with my fellow villagers and doing capitalism lite thanks to one island czar by way of Tom Nook,
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When President Trump announced sweeping tariffs on imports last week, many commenters interpreted the idea as a manifestation of madness. But in Trump’s madness, there may be some method. It is starting to appear clear that Donald Trump is following a plan much more detailed and comprehensive than it would appear from simple slogans such as “MAGA.” Those who are behind the plan — whoever they are, oligarchs, dark elites, or Reptilians — are moving away from the neocons’ “Project for a New Ameri
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Wicked Saints Studios today launched its new interactive story game World Reborn, in which players use in-game “training mods” to identify their core strengths and apply them to real-life scenarios in order to progress in the game. As part of the launch, the studio has partnered with several other companies, including social platform Discord, to launch their own in-game training mods aimed towards advancing certain positive social impacts. World Reborn launches in an 8-week limited run starting
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-08 15:11:20
Clean power provided 40% of the world's electricity last year for the first time since the 1940s, new figures show. Clean energy comes from nuclear and renewable sources like wind and solar. The milestone has been reached thanks to the "staggering" rise of solar, which has doubled in just three years, energy thinktank Ember said in its new report. And solar was the fastest-growing electricity source for the 20th year in a row. It now provides 7% of the world's electricity. But it remains ec
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-08 22:00:07
After stepping through a Floo chamber and teleporting in a puff of green smoke to a vast and stunning re-creation of the Ministry of Magic, I found myself boarding an elevator. Or something like one. That was after I combed through hallways and rooms where characters spoke to me from paintings and posters, but before I seemed to fly and dip and roam through a simulation of a magical world. Or maybe it was real. Or maybe it was both. As I saw characters appear and get swept away and vast spaces f
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Scientists said Wednesday they have developed the world's tiniest pacemaker, a temporary heartbeat regulator smaller than a grain of rice that can be injected and controlled by light before dissolving. While still years away from being tested in humans, the wireless pacemaker was hailed as a "transformative breakthrough" that could spur advances in other areas of medicine. Millions of people across the world have permanent pacemakers, which stimulate hearts with electrical pulses to ensure the
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Minecraft is among the world’s most popular video games and has 100 million monthly active users.Credit: Mojang Studios An artificial intelligence (AI) system has for the first time figured out how to collect diamonds in the hugely popular video game Minecraft — a difficult task requiring multiple steps — without being shown how to play. Its creators say the system, called Dreamer, is a step towards machines that can generalize knowledge learn in one domain to new situations, a major goal of AI
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-11 03:00:00
is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Netflix is adding a Peppa Pig game to its roster of available titles for subscribers in June, the company announced on Monday. World of Peppa Pig will be available alongside new episodes of the popular children’s show in the US. “From spot the difference and interactive mini games to coloring books, dress up games and memory challenges, the World of Peppa Pig offers a treasur
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