Bungie’s classic sci-fi shooter Marathon is now free on Steam
Image: Bungie Before there was Halo and Destiny, there was Marathon — and now Steam users can check out the classic sci-fi shooter for themselves. Bungie just announced that the…
Big Three carriers pay $10M to settle claims of false “unlimited” advertising
Enlarge (credit: Verizon) T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T will pay a combined $10.2 million in a settlement with US states that alleged the carriers falsely advertised wireless plans as “unlimited” and…
A rare geomagnetic storm is heading to Earth — here’s what it means for critical infrastructure
An aurora borealis glows a faint purple in the night sky in the district of Märkisch-Oderland in East Brandenburg. | Photo: Getty Images The National Weather Service’s Space Weather Prediction…
How to watch the possible aurora borealis this weekend
A smartphone camera will provide better views than your own eyes if you’re lucky enough to witness the aurora this weekend. | Photo by Owen Humphreys/PA Images via Getty Images…
Sam Altman shoots down reports of search engine launch ahead of Google I/O
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shot down a Reuters report that claims OpenAI is launching a search product next Monday, the day before…
Google patches its fifth zero-day vulnerability of the year in Chrome
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Google has updated its Chrome browser to patch a high-severity zero-day vulnerability that allows attackers to execute malicious code on end user devices. The fix marks…
Studio: Takedown notice for 15-year-old fan-made Hunt for Gollum was a mistake
Enlarge / WETA “Gollum” figure at Arclight at the opening of “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.” (credit: Barry King / Contributor | WireImage) A day…
OpenAI’s Google Killer? ChatGPT Search could launch as early as Monday
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) OpenAI is coming for the most popular website on the Internet: Google Search. Reuters reports the company behind ChatGPT is planning to launch…
Exploration-focused training lets robotics AI immediately handle new tasks
Enlarge (credit: boonchai wedmakawand) Reinforcement-learning algorithms in systems like ChatGPT or Google’s Gemini can work wonders, but they usually need hundreds of thousands of shots at a task before they…
Teslabots Building and Operating Gigafactories is the Technological Singularity
RethinkX projects a 20 year disruption of the global labor market by humanoid robots. RethinkX projects about one billion humanoid robots by 2045-2055. I, Brian Wang of Nextbigfuture, observed the…