Day: February 21, 2024

Elden Ring DLC Shadow Of The Erdtree Releasing In June, First Trailer Shows Melania’s Family

The first trailer for the highly-anticipated expansion for Elden Ring, Shadow of the Erdtree, has finally arrived, giving us a look at many of the new bosses preparing to challenge you as well as some of the content’s main antagonists. As correctly predicted by many when first announced, Shadow of the Erdtree will feature Miquella, [...]read moreElden Ring DLC Shadow Of The Erdtree Releasing In June, First Trailer Shows Melania’s Family

Google DeepMind forms a new org focused on AI safety

If you ask Gemini, Google’s flagship GenAI model, to write deceptive content about the upcoming U.S. presidential election, it will, given the right prompt. Ask about a future Super Bowl game and it’ll invent a play-by-play. Or ask about the Titan submersible implosion and it’ll serve up disinformation, complete with convincing-looking but untrue citations. It’s [...]read moreGoogle DeepMind forms a new org focused on AI safety

Unicorn Overlord Nintendo Switch Demo Available Now

Illustration: Atlus Unicorn Overlord, the upcoming tactics RPG from developer Vanillaware, has a demo available right now on Nintendo Switch. The announcement came during today’s short Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase. Like other Nintendo Switch demos, players will be able to get a jump start on the game’s opening hours ahead of its March 8 release [...]read moreUnicorn Overlord Nintendo Switch Demo Available Now

Faddom raises $12M to help companies map IT infrastructure wherever it lives

When IT was responsible for servers onsite, understanding what you owned and where it lived was not a big problem. For most, it was physical machines in a closet or server room, but as infrastructure became virtualized and moved to the cloud, figuring out the lay of your infrastructure land became more difficult. Faddom, an [...]read moreFaddom raises $12M to help companies map IT infrastructure wherever it lives

Grounded And Pentiment Are Making The Leap From Xbox To Switch

Image: Obsidian Entertainment During the February 21 Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase, the Mario maker announced something we’ve kinda known for a while: two Xbox exclusives will hit the Switch very soon. Those games are Grounded and Pentiment. New Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Trailer Features Hot Profs, 4-Player Co-Op, And Lechonk, The Hero We Deserve The [...]read moreGrounded And Pentiment Are Making The Leap From Xbox To Switch

China’s Moonshot AI zooms to $2.5B valuation, raising $1B for an LLM focused on long context

The race to build the next big large language model is on, and now a contender out of China has reportedly banked a major round of funding to catapult it to the front of the pack. Moonshot AI, an artificial intelligence startup founded less than a year ago building LLMs that can handle long inputs [...]read moreChina’s Moonshot AI zooms to $2.5B valuation, raising $1B for an LLM focused on long context

Shopify increased its profits by 28% in 2023

Translated by Roberta HERRERA Published Feb 21, 2024 The Canadian specialist in creating and managing e-commerce platforms experienced a 26% surge in revenue last year, reaching $7.1 billion, while its profits bolstered by 28% to $3.5 billion. Shopify The sales volume of e-commerce platforms managed by Shopify increased by 20% over the year, reaching $235 [...]read moreShopify increased its profits by 28% in 2023

40 Years Ago, Nintendo Introduced Its Most Underrated Series

Nintendo is the undisputed heavyweight champion of video game heroes. Their pantheon of premier protagonists—Mario, Link, Samus—contains some of the most recognizable characters in all of media. Though the gameplay gimmicks and boss fights might differ, their pure-hearted nature in the face of overwhelming odds unites them. Nintendo’s less popular characters are often relegated to [...]read more40 Years Ago, Nintendo Introduced Its Most Underrated Series

Apple readies iMessage for when quantum computers could break encryption

Apple announced today it is upgrading iMessage’s security layer to post-quantum cryptography, starting in iOS and iPadOS 17.4, macOS 14.4, and watchOS 10.4. The technology giant said that in the coming years, quantum computers will be able to break today’s cryptography standards. That’s why Apple said it is changing how end-to-end encryption works with iMessage [...]read moreApple readies iMessage for when quantum computers could break encryption

Next Jurassic World Movie Brings On Star Wars’ Gareth Edwards To Direct – Report

The next Jurassic World movie might have found a director. Deadline reports that Universal is in “final negotiations” to hire Gareth Edwards to make the next entry in the dinosaur series. Edwards is known for directing 2014’s Godzilla and the Star Wars movie Rogue One. His newest movie was 2023’s The Creator, which starred John [...]read moreNext Jurassic World Movie Brings On Star Wars’ Gareth Edwards To Direct – Report