OpenCritic, the review aggregator that made waves with its unweighted and inclusive approach, is looking into informing consumers if a game contains microtransaction loot boxes.
Developer Reikon Games’ Ruiner is a gruesome tour through a vivid cyberpunk dystopia, dripping with neon-soaked style, that will satisfy fans of old-school isometric shooters.
Researchers from Harvard, MIT, and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are developing a smart bandage that can release medication and speed the healing process. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d6uFlRuPZY These “intelligent bandages” are made from cotton coated with an electrically conductive substance, then further surrounded
According to three U.S. government officials, the White House Chief of Staff’s phone may have been compromised as far back as December 2016.
More than 4,000 Americans were surveyed about the ever-increasing presence of robots in our daily lives, with over 70% expressing concern over robots replacing humans.
After public bipartisan outcry, Mattel has decided to cease plans for production of the artificial intelligence children’s assistant “Aristotle.”
Researchers from the University of Rochester Medical Center have shown links between later school start times and decreased risks of anxiety and depression in children.
During this year’s International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems in Vancouver, Canada, Honda offered the general public a glimpse into the future of disaster response.
According to a study published in September, “base editing” of human embryos may hold promise for the eradication of genetic disease.
Former Google engineer Anthony Levandowski is emerging from the shadow of a self-driving lawsuit to create a robot god.
In a move to reduce the momentum of a snowballing series of PR blunders, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has reversed course on their decision to monetize the memorial “Forthog” DLC.
Entertainment Software Association President and CEO Michael D. Gallagher on Monday released a statement in support of the Trump administration’s new STEM initiative.
A man in France has begun to show signs of consciousness after 15 years in a vegetative state, thanks to the success of an innovative nerve implant.
A news startup called “Ground Control” has partnered with the Creative Artist Agency for a series of podcasts specific to Amazon and Google’s high-tech home assistants. First up is a news briefing curated by Barack Obama’s former vice president, Joe Biden.
Speaking to Axios at a Toronto artificial intelligence conference, Yoshua Bengio warned against the concentration of money and power in Silicon Valley.
At the first Bloomberg Global Business Forum in New York, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg asserted that social media platforms “have to be more aggressive” in fighting “fake news.”
A research team at the University of Bari has created an artificial intelligence that can spot even the faintest signs of Alzheimer’s Disease ten years sooner than any human.
Toys ‘R’ Us filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy comes after the toy retailer lost relevance proportionate to their video game market share.
For a brief moment, cooperative shooter Fortnite allowed Xbox and PlayStation owners the chance to play together, a first for console cross-platform play.
The U.S. Navy will save money and training time by giving young naval officers aboard submarines video game controllers to operate periscopes.
The United States Department of Defense has granted provisional authorization for Amazon to host “Impact Level 5” workloads.
After nearly two decades, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft completed its mission to study Saturn and its moons on the morning of September 15, 2017.
The SpaceX founder tweeted a video entitled “How Not to Land an Orbital Rocket Booster,” after teasing the “blooper reel” last week.
Recent experiments aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have produced new and disturbing revelations about bacteria’s behavior outside of our atmosphere.
World of Warcraft players can purchase Shadow the Fox in order to contribute to disaster relief funds, both national and international.
During an interview with BBC Radio 4’s Today, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams asserted that social media helps to “dumb the entire world down.”
A Yale University study on the effectiveness of combatting “fake news” underlines what the rest of the country already knew: Americans no longer trust the media to tell the truth.
On the sixteenth anniversary of the devastating 9/11 terrorist attacks, NASA shared photos taken by the lone American aboard the International Space Station on that fateful day in 2001.
The social media giant Facebook joins Apple in the quest for a piece of the entertainment streaming pie.
Voices outside the range of human hearing can be used to manipulate your phone without any need for hacking.
While Rice University Professor of Computer Science Moshe Y. Vardi and other experts suggest that few jobs are safe from automation, not many actual workers seem to be concerned.
After four years of litigation, on Thursday, a Dallas court ruled in favor of iLife Technologies to the tune of $10 million against Nintendo.
Low water levels revealed the strange jelly creatures at Stanley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Researchers in the United Kingdom and Italy have developed a method that causes spiders to produce silk that is five times stronger than its already legendary toughness.
Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla and SpaceX is raising millions toward another breakthrough — inside our heads.
Australian computer security expert Troy Hunt has revealed the leak of 711 million e-mail addresses, which was caused by a misconfigured spambot.
Only the Chinese government’s approval process could prevent research institutions from implementing a transplantation technique poised to save countless lives.
The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) announced the designation of MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy for PTSD as a “breakthrough therapy” by the FDA.
Ohio State University has revoked the Ph.D. of a co-author to a retracted study that claimed first-person shooter video games made people better shooters in the real world.
Volition’s Agents of Mayhem couches tired gameplay in bland world design and populates it with a cast of grating one-dimensional caricatures.
