Camping at the location of the orbs is a solid strategy: the player must collect the orbs to win (imagine if Pac-Man’s ghosts just lingered near the entrances to every corner of the map). It also makes the game less fun. Players no longer experience thrilling chases. Instead, the AI can set up an unpredictable...
With the pandemic Entering an amorphous new phase and increasing political polarization around the world, 2022 has been a challenging and often perplexing year for digital security. And while hackers often relied on old chestnuts like phishing attacks and ransomware attacks, they still found new malicious options to undermine protection. Here’s WIRED’s look at...
Michael Kalore: In a word? Lauren Good: I’ll give you a phrase. Michael Kalore: Elon Musk. Lauren Good: Oh really? It’s like a proper name. Michael Kalore: Yeah. Lauren Good: It’s like a wrong noun. Michael KaloreA: I mean, it looks great. And you? Lauren Good: I went with a dictionary word, so I chose...
This transition to an all-electric life — no gas stoves or water heaters — will also create jobs. One estimate believes the IRA will create nearly a million in year over ten years. They need to serve both red and blue regions: rural areas may have solar or wind farms to build and maintain, while...
This is where wishes come true. Their own league and Interview with a Vampire converge and diverge. League the movie, based on a real-life league founded in 1943, erased how common queer women are in this space. (One of the show’s consultants, the original “All the Way Mae,” Mabel Blair, came out at age 95...
Artificial intelligence has promised a lot, but something stood in the way of its successful use by billions of people: the frustrating struggle between humans and machines to understand each other in natural language. This is now changing with the advent of large language models based on transformer architectures, which is one of the most...
In the 5th century, in early medieval Ireland, Conall Gulban, the Irish king, gave his name to an area of land on the northwestern tip of the Irish coast. His kingdom was called Tir Chonall, “the land of Conall” – or, today, Donegal. Somewhere in the line of descendants of the king, known as Senel...
Let’s start with the obvious here: Between networks, streamers, and whatever else, there is absolutely too much TV to consume these days. It’s impossible to keep up with the zeitgeist and you shouldn’t even try. The flipside of that, though, is that come year’s end, you get to learn about all sorts of “new” shows...
The most important part of your research is to read the toy’s privacy policy. before you turn it on or customize it. (More on this in the next section.) Look for these words in small print Current U.S. child privacy laws do little to protect children in the 21st century, Cross says. As such, parents...
Technology plays an important role in community building, especially for historically marginalized groups. Women use apps to track all sorts of things, including their periods (almost a third all women in the US) the LGBTQ+ community uses apps to meet like-minded people; and activists campaigning through democratic means are using social media and messaging apps...
