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Ukraine has unveiled an AI-generated spokesperson, Victoria Shi, to deliver official statements from its foreign ministry, according to The Guardian, marking a significant technological leap in diplomatic communication. The digital spokesperson was introduced in a social media presentation, where she appeared dressed in a dark suit, speaking and gesturing like a human.
Despite the innovative use...
The world has gone Fallout mad as Amazon Prime’s TV rendition of everybody’s favorite post-apocalyptic video game really hit the spot. In turn, people have been coming back to the game in their droves and modding the living daylights out of it but there is a version of Fallout 4 that hasn’t had as much attention, and today we are putting that right.
Get your PCVR headset out – be that your Index...
If your iPhone alarm hasn’t gone off recently, it’s not just you — it seems to be a widespread problem, especially among owners of the iPhone 15. In a viral Reddit post, one iPhone user described how he set “several sequential alarms” but only one sounded. “I woke up to find that my earlier alarms had all remained ‘set’ but failed to sound,” the user wrote. “None of these are recurring alarms, so...
A group of Democratic secretaries of state has formally requested that Meta, the parent company of Facebook, discontinue allowing advertisements that falsely claim the 2020 presidential election was stolen. According to the Associated Press, this collective, which includes the secretaries from Colorado, Maine, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington, Vermont, and Wisconsin Secretary of State...
Elon Musk, CEO of X (formerly Twitter), shared an ambitious vision this week for enhancing the platform’s news dissemination capabilities using AI. The proposed initiative, revealed through an email exchange with Big Technology, aims to synthesize real-time news with social media reactions into comprehensive, live updates. This novel approach could transform how news is consumed on X, making it a...
A mysterious AI chatbot labelled ‘gpt2-chatbot’ was briefly available online before subsequently disappearing again. The chatbot quietly made its debut on the website LMSYS Chatbot Arena — a website which is used to benchmark, compare, and rank different AI systems.
Based on its name, some are speculating that the tool might be an earlier version of OpenAI‘s chatbot language model, GPT-2. But...
Players of Helldivers 2, the popular third-person shooter that launched in February, are discovering they need to have a PlayStation Network account if they want to access the game on Steam.
Helldivers 2 is Sony’s biggest-ever launch on Steam, but there were no mandatory requirements to have both a Steam and PSN account at launch. Now 60 days after release, Sony Interactive Entertainment is...
Lawyers suing TikTok in the United States say the social media platform offers “safety features in some countries and not others,” by implication saying that TikTok could do more to protect young people in the US.
In a court filing on Wednesday, lawyers representing youths and their parents claim TikTok “provides safety features in some countries and not others,” and that the differences between...
It’s fair to say Apple AirPods, both the pro and non-pro versions, are some of the most popular earbuds on the market and have been ever since the launch of the first AirPods back in 2016. So rumours of the Apple AirPods 4 doing the rounds will have fans very excited.
The 3rd generation AirPods launched in October 2021, so leaks surrounding the 4th generation model are based on Apple roughly...
Valorant’s developers have stepped in to dispel sinister rumors about anti-cheat client Vanguard.
Controversial posts have been surfacing that say Riot Games’ security software has been volatile for PC players and has been taking screenshots of sensitive information and chats.
As we reported earlier, League of Legends, also from Riot, has been impacted. One gamer posted that they had to remove...