Tablets are super useful devices for having around the home, whether you need to check in on your emails, follow along with a recipe or scroll through social media. But if you already have a decent phone and laptop, you might not want to spend too much on an... Read more

Despite being human-made, human-taught, and human-promoted, it’s easy to criticize AI for being fundamentally inhuman. To claim that AI models like ChatGPT and DALL-E will replace art created by people is to ignore both the ineffable qualities of the human touch and the critical flaws of these models—or so... Read more

Connect with top gaming leaders in Los Angeles at GamesBeat Summit 2023 this May 22-23. Register here. Investment data and research firm PitchBook has released its first market report on the gaming industry. The report focuses on Q4 2022 and provides an overview of the games market, venture capital... Read more

Like Game of Thrones and The Mandalorian before it, The Last of Us is keeping up a high-profile TV series tradition: things are appearing in shots that shouldn’t be there. It’s not as unforgivable as plasticware and modern drinks in the battered final season of Game of Thrones. In... Read more

Last Thursday, the US State Department outlined a new vision for developing, testing, and verifying military systems—including weapons—that make use of AI.  The Political Declaration on Responsible Military Use of Artificial Intelligence and Autonomy represents an attempt by the US to guide the development of military AI at a crucial... Read more

Connect with top gaming leaders in Los Angeles at GamesBeat Summit 2023 this May 22-23. Register here. From Software’s Elden Ring won Game of the Year at the prestigious Dice Awards on Thursday night, beating out its rival for the year God of War: Ragnarök. Sony’s God of War... Read more

Enlarge / The cover of “Zarya of the Dawn,” a comic book created using Midjourney AI image synthesis in 2022. Kris Kashtanova On Tuesday, the US Copyright Office declared that images created using the AI-powered Midjourney image generator for the comic book Zarya of the Dawn should not have... Read more

Netflix documentaries have always been the best in the business, but with so many different shows and movies to choose from, it can be hard to make a selection. That’s why we’ve made this list. We’re starting with the the best new documentaries released in the past 12 months. After... Read more

It’s basically impossible to keep track of what all your mobile apps are doing and what data they share with whom and when. So over the past couple of years, Apple and Google have both added mechanisms to their app stores meant to act as a sort of privacy... Read more

Connect with top gaming leaders in Los Angeles at GamesBeat Summit 2023 this May 22-23. Register here. Warner Bros. Interactive and Avalanche Software revealed today that their recently launched Harry Potter game, Hogwarts Legacy, has sold over 12 million units within its first two weeks of launch. It also... Read more