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Hackers Rig Casino Card-Shuffling Machines for 'Full Control' Cheating
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Hackers Rig Casino Card-Shuffling Machines for 'Full Control' Cheating

Security researchers at IOActive accessed an internal camera inside the Deckmate 2 card shuffler used in casinos to learn the exact deck order and the hand of every...

They Plugged GPT-4 Into Minecraft – and Unearthed New Potential for AI
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They Plugged GPT-4 Into Minecraft – and Unearthed New Potential for AI

AI researcher Linxi "Jim" Fan and colleagues at chipmaker Nvidia devised a way to set the powerful language model GPT-4 loose inside Minecraft, turning the video...

Machine Learning Could Create the Perfect Game Bosses
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Machine Learning Could Create the Perfect Game Bosses

Romain Trachel and Alexandre Peyrot, machine-learning specialists at Eidos-Sherbrooke, have demonstrated a game tool that combines machine learning with a feature...

How It Feels to Build a Videogame and Watch It Die
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How It Feels to Build a Videogame and Watch It Die

How do developers feel about working for years on videogames that fail and vanish for reasons beyond their control? "Disappointing and frustrating," one said.

DeepMind Wants to Use AI to Transform Soccer
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DeepMind Wants to Use AI to Transform Soccer

Alphabet-owned DeepMind is working with Liverpool to bring computer vision and statistical learning to the high-stakes world of sports.

Gamers Forge Their Own Paths When It Comes to Accessibility
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Gamers Forge Their Own Paths When It Comes to Accessibility

Players with disabilities and chronic illnesses haven't waited around for console manufacturers to look their way.

How Video Games Are Saving Those Who Served
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How Video Games Are Saving Those Who Served

Video games can be lifesaving, grounding, and even therapeutic for those who have served overseas in combat zones.

Gamemakers Inject AI to Develop More Lifelike Characters
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Gamemakers Inject AI to Develop More Lifelike Characters

Researchers from Electronic Arts and the University of British Columbia are using a machine learning technique to speed up the videogame development process by...

Artist Turns Data Into Art, With Help From AI
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Artist Turns Data Into Art, With Help From AI

Artist Refik Anadol sees pools of data as material for mesmerizing art installations.

Mourning John Perry Barlow, the Bard of the Internet
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Mourning John Perry Barlow, the Bard of the Internet

When I first met John Perry Barlow, we became instant soulmates. While that sentence is true for me, it also applies to probably 10,000 other people.

The Emotional Chatbots Are Here to Probe Our Feelings
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The Emotional Chatbots Are Here to Probe Our Feelings

When Eugenia Kuyda created her chatbot, Replika, she wanted it to stand out among the voice assistants and home robots that had begun to take root in peoples lives...

The Iphone Didn't Emerge from Nothing. Here's What Came Before It
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The Iphone Didn't Emerge from Nothing. Here's What Came Before It

On January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs stood on the MacWorld stage in his jeans and a black turtleneck.

I Helped Create Facebook's Ad Machine. Here's How I'd Fix It
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I Helped Create Facebook's Ad Machine. Here's How I'd Fix It

This month, two magnificently embarrassing public-relations disasters rocked the Facebook money machine like nothing else in its history.

Live the Maddening Life of a Traffic Engineer with a $3 Game
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Live the Maddening Life of a Traffic Engineer with a $3 Game

The air sings with four-letter words. The iPad sits stoic as fingers poke, jab, and prod at its screen.

The Beeping, Gargling History of Gaming's Most Iconic Sounds
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The Beeping, Gargling History of Gaming's Most Iconic Sounds

The bouncy beeps of Pac-Man. The percussive build-up in Legend of Zelda. The effusive gibberish of The Sims. The sounds in videogames tell us to speed up, start...

Gaze ­pon Jupiter's Enormity in This Amazing Fly-By Video
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Gaze ­pon Jupiter's Enormity in This Amazing Fly-By Video

Latest view of Jupiter from NASA's Juno spacecraft from Enneagon on Vimeo.

Next List 2017 20 Tech Visionaries Who Are Creating the Future
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Next List 2017 20 Tech Visionaries Who Are Creating the Future

Microsoft will build computers even more sleek and beautiful than Apple's. Robots will 3-D-print cool shoes that are personalized just for you.

Face It, Meatsack: Pro Gamer Will Be the Only Job Left
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Face It, Meatsack: Pro Gamer Will Be the Only Job Left

Look at economic data closely and the trends aren't pretty: People with elite backgrounds are hoovering up an increasing share of new income and wealth.

Cozmo Is an Artificially Intelligent Toy Truck That's Also the Future of Robotics
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Cozmo Is an Artificially Intelligent Toy Truck That's Also the Future of Robotics

Hanns Tappeiner types a few lines of code into his laptop and hits "return."

Meet the Smartest, Cutest AI-Powered Robot You've Ever Seen
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Meet the Smartest, Cutest AI-Powered Robot You've Ever Seen

Boris Sofman taps his phone, and the robot on the conference room table in front of him wakes up. Not in that gadget-y way, like when a laptop screen turns on,...
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