Enlarge / “Sarah” from Virtua Fighter gets an AI makeover thanks to Stable Diffusion and a fan named Colin Williamson. (credit: Colin Williamson) In 1993, Sega’s Virtua Fighter arcade game broke new ground with fully 3D polygonal graphics, a first for a fighting game. Thanks to a Twitter thread from an artist named Colin Williamson,…
Monthly Archives: October 2022
Enlarge / The morning fog leaves a layer of dew on cannabis rows in Petrolia, California, August 3, 2022. (credit: Getty | The Washington Post) President Biden on Thursday announced that he is pardoning all prior federal offenses of simple marijuana possession and encouraged state governors to do the same for state offenses. He also…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Elon Musk is being investigated over “conduct” related to his pending acquisition of Twitter, the company said in an October 6 court filing that was just made public yesterday. “Elon Musk is presently under investigation by federal authorities for his conduct in connection with the acquisition of Twitter,” Twitter told Delaware…
Enlarge (credit: picture alliance / Contributor | picture alliance) After the BBC launched an investigation into how TikTok profits off Syrian families in crisis—reportedly violating TikTok policies by begging live for TikTok gifts that are exchangeable for cash—TikTok immediately took action, banning all accounts that BBC identified. These accounts, a TikTok spokesperson told Ars, violated…
Enlarge / Artist’s conception of Team Ricochet targeting cheaters on PC. Recent updates to online store and support pages suggested that all Modern Warfare II players would have to register a unique, text-capable phone number with their account to play the game. In a blog post this week, though, the team behind the game’s Ricochet…
Enlarge / The 2024 Ford Mustang might prove more resistant to modding than any Mustang in the past. The culprit? Modern-day cybersecurity protections. (credit: Ford) People have been tinkering with and modifying vehicles since not long after the invention of the automobile. As an activity, it exploded in the wake of World War II, as…
Apple’s Community Education Initiative (CEI) has been expanded to 150 partners in 600 communities in 99 countries and regions, including all 50 states, the company announced. Launched in 2019, CEI provides access to coding, creativity, and job opportunities to students of all ages and from all backgrounds, with special focus on communities that are traditionally…
Around 10 percent of Netflix content will not be available in this new tier. Alicia Quan/Unsplash After months of hints and speculation, yesterday Netflix finally announced a course reversal on its former “no ads ever” policy. Beginning November 3, a new “Basic with Ads” subscription tier is coming to the streaming platform in the US…
Make sure you’re selecting the text that you mean to select. Jonas Leupe / Unsplash Selecting text on phones and computers is something you most likely have to do multiple times throughout the day. From pasting an address into a chat conversation to copying a quote from a webpage, being able to accurately pick out…
Deposit Photos / bennymarty Passwords are a pain. People use the same insecure passwords over and over again and yet still manage to forget them, which makes protecting accounts and data challenging for big tech companies. Even when someone does use a password that is long and complex enough to be relatively secure—because, say, they…