Carbon Counts has put together a team to make an eco-friendly casual mobile game: EverForest, with a play-to-plant trees mechanic.Read MoreRead More
Monthly Archives: August 2022
NIST releases an expanded draft of the AI Risk Management Framework but the impact on trustworthy AI remains unclear.Read MoreRead More
I feel like the fox will end up being a bad guy, but I really love his style. | Image: Disney There’s a new trailer out for Disney’s upcoming live-action Pinocchio movie, directed by Robert Zemeckis (the man behind Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and The Polar Express). Compared to what we’ve…
A screenshot from a video “prebunking” appeals to emotion. | Image: Inoculation Science “Prebunking” false information with short videos could nudge people to be more critical of it, suggests a new study from researchers at the University of Cambridge and Google’s Jigsaw division. The study is part of ongoing work in the field of mis-…
Photo by Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images The government’s financial aid website is crashing after President Joe Biden’s announcement of a federal student loan forgiveness program that cancels up to $20,000 of student loan debt for some people. According to several user reports on Twitter, Downdetector.com, and testing done by Verge staffers, people are having…
California is about to ban the sale of new gas-powered vehicles. | Getty California is poised to ban the sale of new gas-powered vehicles — a far-reaching policy that is likely to reverberate throughout the rest of the country and the world. On Thursday, the California Air Resources Board will issue the new rules that…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Streaming media platform Plex on Wednesday said it was hacked by intruders who managed to access a proprietary database and make off with password data, usernames, and emails belonging to at least half of its 30 million customers. “Yesterday, we discovered suspicious activity on one of our databases,” company officials wrote…
The state received its final shipment of coal from Indonesia on July 27. DepositPhotos On September 1, the only coal power plant in the state of Hawaii will be closing its doors for good. The AES Hawaii power plant located on the western side of the island of Oahu has been running on fossil fuels…
The controversial creation was ‘signed’ to Capitol Music Group for less than two weeks. YouTube In one of the most dramatic, rapid rise and falls in recent music history, the rapper FN Meka has been dropped by his record label less than two weeks after Capitol Music Group first announced the deal, citing a horrendous…
The explosive Twitter whistleblower complaint that was made public yesterday — detailing a raft of damning allegations across security, privacy and data protection issues (among others) by Twitter’s former former head of security, Peiter “Mudge” Zatko — contained references to European regulators along with claims that the social media firm had misled or intended to…