Enlarge / Patriot Front members spray painting in Springfield, Illinois. (credit: Unicornriot.ninja) Patriot Front, or PF, formed in the aftermath of the 2017 Unite the Right rally, a demonstration in Charlottesville, Virginia, where one of the attendees rammed his car…
Bitcoin, the largest digital asset, extended its decline Saturday, and has now shed more than 50% from its record high in November. Bitcoin’s decline since hitting the record has wiped out more than $600 billion in market value, and over…
Enlarge / Sam Zeloof completed this homemade computer chip with 1,200 transistors, seen under a magnifying glass, in August 2021. (credit: Sam Kang) Intel revealed new details about its plan to build a “mega-fab” on US soil, a $100 billion…
Movie director James Cameron says he hopes critical thinking will help people identify deepfake videos. So-called deepfakes use machine learning to modify video footage, usually replacing one person’s face with another, with realistic results. Read moreDealcollector un sito per tutte…
Call of Duty is to remain on Playstation, Microsoft bosses have said, after news that the tech giant is to buy games company Activision Blizzard. The deal worth $68.7bn (£50.57bn) had raised questions over the future of the shooter video…
Unintentional consequences? The knock-on effects for the rest of the world might not be limited to intentional reprisals by Russian operatives. Unlike old-fashioned war, cyberwar is not confined by borders and can more easily spiral out of control. Ukraine has…
In 2008, I purchased my first digital outfit. I gave little thought to the significance of my decision. It was just one aspect of Maplestory, the free online role-playing game my friends and I were obsessed with. The game’s objective…
Data2vec is part of a big trend in AI toward models that can learn to understand the world in more than one way. “It’s a clever idea,” says Ani Kembhavi at the Allen Institute for AI in Seattle, who works…
The fact it is web-based and determined to avoid the data-hungry, ad-laden addictive nature of many app-based games, is the secret to its success, says Nick Bowman, an associate professor of creative media, at Texas Tech University, and a Wordle…