Pope Leo refuses to authorise an AI Pope and declares the technology ‘an empty, cold shell that will do great damage to what humanity is about’

Pope Leo XIV has rejected the idea of an AI Pope, saying in an interview with biographer Eloise Allen that “if there’s anybody who should not be represented by an avatar, I would say the Pope is high on the list” (first spotted by The Register). Pope Leo, who is forthright about his views on…

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Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 is richly authentic, intriguingly written, dripping with brooding atmosphere, and… not very fun to play, unfortunately

A certain kind of person is going to fall completely in love with Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2. Playing through a new hands-on demo showing off more of its dark vision of Seattle, I’m struck by how much it nails the atmosphere of the original tabletop RPG. If you were a goth kid in…

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Team Reptile announces Hyperfunk, a Bomb Rush Cyberfunk follow-up that’s ‘2 seconds per second of evolved funkstyle’

If you’re a gamer of a certain vintage, there’s a good chance that your idea of cool looks like cel-shaded graffiti artists doing roller blading tricks in a futuristic cityscape where nothing isn’t neon. Sanctified by Jet Set Radio, that visual lineage continues in the work of creators like Bomb Rush Cyberfunk developer Team Reptile,…

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Jensen Huang says Intel and Nvidia ‘have been discussing and architecting solutions now for coming up to a year’ and ‘kept it really quiet’

It’s not too often that I get a complete ‘out of the blue’ surprise in PC hardware land, but the recent announcement of an Intel-Nvidia partnership certainly fits that bill. And it’s even more surprising to discover the two companies, which will now be working together on both datacentre and consumer systems, have been working…

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