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At first glance, these AI-generated Super Mario Bros. videos are pretty impressive. The more you watch, though, the more glitches you’ll see. (credit: MarioVGG) Last month, Google’s GameNGen AI model showed that generalized image diffusion techniques can be used to…
Enlarge / The energy captured by Balatro‘s mobile announcement trailer is terrifyingly spot-on. (credit: LocalThunk) LocalThunk, the pseudonymous lead developer of the surprise smash hit deckbuilding/roguelike/poker-math-simulation game Balatro, has long given the impression that he understands that his game, having…
Enlarge / The USS Manchester. Just the spot for a Starlink dish. (credit: Department of Defense) It’s no secret that government IT can be a huge bummer. The records retention! The security! So government workers occasionally take IT into their…
The silver coin discoveries date to the Roman Republic and are from the island of Pantelleria, between Sicily and Tunisia.
You may have seen some new ways to describe when someone is autistic and also has attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The terms “AuDHD” or sometimes “AutiADHD” are being used on social media, with people describing what they experience or have…
Enlarge / High pressure ices near the crust are a feature of water-rich worlds.` (credit: Benoit Gougeon (University of Montreal)) The possibility that there is liquid water on an exoplanet’s surface usually flags it as “potentially habitable,” but the reality…
Enlarge / BMW has had some hydrogen fuel cell-powered iX5s in testing for a while, and for Art Basel 2024 this one got a new look courtesy of Es Devlin. (credit: Enes Kucevic/BMW) Today, BMW announced that it will start…
Enlarge (credit: Marc Piasecki / Contributor | Getty Images Entertainment) Elon Musk’s X has won its appeal on free speech grounds to block AB 587, a California law requiring social media companies to submit annual reports publicly explaining their controversial…
A flowery passage in a 6,000-year-old Hindu text may be the earliest known reference to a solar eclipse, describing the sun as being “pierced” with darkness and gloom and proposing that evil beings had caused the sun’s “magic arts to…
New James Webb Space Telescope results have revealed that there may not be a Hubble tension after all. But contradictions within the findings point to a deeper mystery.
