Fallout TV series season 1 is now streaming, Fallout 4's next-gen upgrade introduces new content on April 25
All Fallout games now on sale, Fallout London mod also coming this month
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Avi Wigderson wins Turing Award for his influential work in computational randomness
The Turing Award is often referred to as the Nobel Prize of Computing
Adobe is paying upwards of $7 per minute for original video content to train AI
Is Adobe paying enough?
The UK could ban the sale of smartphones to kids under 16
Most parents would approve
Meta will blur images containing nudity in Instagram messages to under 18s
Over 18s can enable the feature if they want
Sun Microsystems co-founder supports forced TikTok sale, calls it China's "programmable fentanyl"
"Spinach for Chinese kids, fentanyl - another chief export of China's - for ours"
A hot potato: Joining the list of people who support the US government's attempt to force ByteDance into diversifying TikTok is Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla. The OpenAI backer didn't hold back when talking about the popular short-form video platform, noting that it could be weaponized by a foreign adversary. He also called the app programmable fentanyl whose effects are under the control of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Sony debuts new flagship 4K60p Pan-Tilt-Zoom camera with AI auto framing
A lot of tech in a tiny form-factor
Compaq, Gone But Not Forgotten: The Best-Selling PC of the 1980s and 1990s
#TBT The year was 1982 and computers had finally made the jump from machines that took up a full room to something that could fit on a desk. But they were still far from portable, so three entrepreneurs decided to change that.
Texas is replacing thousands of human exam scorers with AI
AI-graded tests could save the state as much as $20 million per year
A sealed retail version of Castlevania from 1987 sold for a bargain price of $90,000
Hardcore collectors say it could be worth up to $250,000
The US government has a new plan for slashing greenhouse emissions from buildings
Setting some rather ambitious goals to knock greenhouse gases down and improve efficiency
Modder builds a handheld PlayStation console out of a rare PS1 controller
It can play retro classics like Mega Man 8, Resident Evil Survivor and The Contra Adventure
How Sam Altman became a billionaire without equity in OpenAI
It turns out that when he's not working his day job, Sam Altman is a pretty savvy investor
Microsoft issues warning on China's use of generative AI to disrupt US elections
China-based and Beijing-backed groups are becoming more sophisticated
"Stop Killing Games" is a new campaign to prevent publishers from taking their titles offline
Finally somebody is taking on the big bad publishers
Survey reveals 41% of executives expect AI will shrink workforce sizes
Not very collaborative on AI's part
Former White House CIO warns the tech industry should prepare for a TikTok ban
China could retaliate by placing demands on Apple
Another Matrix movie is in the works with a new writer-director
Drew Goddard (The Cabin in the Woods, The Martian) will be writing and directing
FTC denies rating board's suggestion for age verification system
Editor's take: The ESRB has one job: rate games by maturity level based on content. So why did it involve itself in a proposal to add a new age verification system for parents to use to provide consent for data collection on their children? All that did was confuse the public about what facial age estimation is and how it would be used, leading to it getting shot down by the FTC.
California considers "right to disconnect" bill to prevent bosses contacting workers out of hours
Californians could soon have a better work-life balance
FPS and your eyes: Some people can process visual information faster than others
Seeing more frames per second