2025-01-10

Citizen Sleeper 2 asks how we stay human in a hopeless future

Life for Sleepers is fraught. They gain consciousness in a state of indentured servitude, an emulated human mind inside an android body, forced to work until they’re discarded. Those who escape don� [...]

2025-04-01

House of the Dragon showrunner hits back at George R.R. Martin criticism as filming begins on hit HBO TV show's third season

Filming is underway on House of the Dragon season 3, but it's been overshadowed by a spat between its showrunner and George R.R. Martin. [...]

2025-01-25

George R.R. Martin Coauthored a Scientific Paper

OK, cool, now finish The Winds of Winter. [...]

2025-05-15

Apple’s CarPlay Ultra finally arrives, but it’s exclusive to Aston Martins right now

The next generation of Apple’s CarPlay interface is finally here, available exclusively for Aston Martin drivers in the US and Canada initially. Over the next few weeks, existing Aston Martin vehicl [...]

2025-01-28

The best E Ink tablets for 2025

E Ink tablets have always been intriguing to me because I’m a longtime lover of pen and paper. I’ve had probably hundreds of notebooks over the years, serving as repositories for my story ideas, t [...]

2025-01-23

Doom: The Dark Ages hits PC, PS5 and Xbox on May 15

Doom: The Dark Ages is set to come out on May 15 for PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. It’s a single-player sandbox experience with an emphasis on exploration, bloodshed and upgrading skill trees, introd [...]

2025-03-14

OpenAI and Google ask for a government exemption to train their AI models on copyrighted material

OpenAI is calling on the Trump administration to give AI companies an exemption to train their models on copyrighted material. In a blog post spotted by The Verge, the company this week published its [...]

2025-06-03

Deepmind's "force prompting" lets AI create realistic video motion without physics engines

A team from Brown University and Deepmind has found that generative video models can produce realistic motion when prompted with artificial forces, without needing 3D models or physics engines.<br [...]

2025-03-18

Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky just introduced two new e-paper smartwatches

Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky just unveiled two new smartwatches that will be instantly familiar for long-time fans of the brand. The Core 2 Duo and the Core Time 2 boast always-on e-paper displays, [...]