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The men behind iconic games and studios like Gears of War, Ultima Underworld, Apogee Software, and more on aging gracefully in games

Laura Bailey said the harassment taught her to ‘keep a distance’

Latinx in Gaming continues to provide resources to the Latino community looking to get into the world of games.

If you have grown up with social media, chances are you have taken more photos in the last couple of decades than you will ever remember. When mobile phones suddenly became cameras too, social media turned into a community photo album, with memories kept online forever and ever. Or so we thought.

On "The Takeout" podcast this week, Samantha Power talks with Major Garrett about Israeli allegations that at least a dozen UNRWA staff were involved in Hamas' attack on Israel.

Long before people worried about the effects of ChatGPT on personal communication and social norms, there was the autopen and its precursors—automatic signature machines—that some feared would be misused to forge signatures and sign war declarations and other bills.

Sexually graphic "deepfake" images of Taylor Swift went viral on social media last week, fueling widespread condemnation from Swifties, the general public and even the White House.

Jonathan Fielding was hiking with friends at Utah's Moonscape Overlook when he fell.

啊？他真用金锄头啊？

Our energy systems are characterized by two important injustices. First of all, not all people have the same degree of access to these systems (and their advantages). Secondly, the negative consequences of the systems—particularly climate change—are distributed unfairly. TU/e researcher Natascha van Bommel investigated how the current energy transitions can be used to mitigate these injustices.

After hours of routine operations, an air traffic controller gets a radio call from a small aircraft whose cockpit indicators can't confirm that the plane's landing gear is extended for landing. The controller arranges for the pilot to fly low by the tower so the controller can visually check the plane's landing gear. All appears well. "It looks like your gear is down," the controller tells the pilot.

A researcher from the New Jersey Institute of Technology has published a perspective paper that examines sentience and its application to artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics. Sentience describes the ability to sense and feel, drawing its meaning from the Latin word sentire which means "to feel." The paper addresses a set of ideological commitments at stake in debates over sentient machines. The author proposes that artificial sentience is both necessary and impossible.

Meta announced on Jan. 9, 2024, that it will protect teen users by blocking them from viewing content on Instagram and Facebook that the company deems to be harmful, including content related to suicide and eating disorders. The move comes as federal and state governments have increased pressure on social media companies to provide safety measures for teens.

Grammys host Trevor Noah tells Gayle King about the goal of staying on the good side of Taylor Swift fans, adjusting to a crowd's mood and more.

In unsealed documents, the league's commish compared risk of brain injury in football to dangers of 'walking down the street'

At last check in July, indie wrestler the “Progressive Liberal” Daniel Richards won his match against a Trump supporter but still had to wear a diaper and drink gross milk out of a baby bottle. A couple of weeks later at Dukes Fest, a Dukes of Hazzard-themed festival in Virginia, Richards wrestled again and used the…

Excerpted from Big Game: The NFL In Dangerous Times, out today from Penguin Press.

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