OpenAI cures GPT-4 ‘laziness’ with new updates
Illustration: The Verge In a blog post, OpenAI said the updated GPT-4 Turbo “completes tasks like code generation more thoroughly than the previous preview model and is intended to reduce…
The Xbox Series S is down to $229
Even if you already own an Xbox, it wouldn’t be the worst idea to buy one as a backup. | Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge We’ve seen the…
Smallest Hall Effect Thrusters Can Fit Into Cubesats
The possibility of the controversial IVO Quantized Inertia drive on the Barry-1 satellite working has raised the question of could it be faked with a small Hall Effect Thruster ?…
Epic intends to launch its game store — and Fortnite — on iOS
Fortnite in 2020, when it was banned on the App Store. | Screenshot: Fortnite Epic plans to launch the Epic Games Store on the iPhone this year in the European…
Cruise wasn’t hiding the pedestrian-dragging video from regulators — it just had bad internet
Photo by Tayfun Coskun / Anadolu via Getty Images Cruise, the self-driving car subsidiary of General Motors, tried to send a 90-second video to regulators of an incident in which…
The amazing helicopter on Mars, Ingenuity, will fly no more
Enlarge / A close-up view of Ingenuity on Mars, as seen by the Perseverance rover. (credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU) Something has gone wrong with NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter on the surface of Mars.…
Microsoft cancels Blizzard survival game, lays off 1,900
Enlarge / Blizzard shared this image teasing a now-cancelled game in 2022. (credit: Blizzard Entertainment/Twitter) The survival game that Blizzard announced it was working on in January 2022 has reportedly…
X can’t stop spread of explicit, fake AI Taylor Swift images
Enlarge (credit: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin / Contributor | FilmMagic) Explicit, fake AI-generated images sexualizing Taylor Swift began circulating online this week, quickly sparking mass outrage that may finally force a mainstream reckoning…
Apple announces sweeping EU App Store policy changes—including sideloading
Enlarge / The iPhone 15 lineup. To comply with European Union regulations, Apple has introduced sweeping changes that make iOS and Apple’s other operating systems more open. The changes are…
Argonne National Lab Reveal Superconductor with On-off Switches
Researchers used the Advanced Photon Source to confirm the rare properties of this material, which could lead to more efficient large-scale computing. Physicists at the University of Washington and the…