TCL’s new OLED megafactory is purpose-built to make ‘high-end’ screens for monitors, laptops and tablets cheaper thanks to a low-cost inkjet manufacturing process

As if to confirm my point yesterday that OLED panel tech is far from dead, here comes TCL confirming plans for a new multi-billion-dollar OLED factory. But this is the really exciting bit. Not only will this factory focus on OLED panels for monitors, laptops and tablets, at least at first, but it also uses…

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Former Riot exec and WoW vet side-eyes the ‘gigantic investments’ and flubs of major studios as his MMO scrambles for funding: ‘Please indulge me in feeling salty for a moment’

Things are dire in the game industry at the moment. Which is, unfortunately, a sentence I’ve been writing for a lot of moments—two years of moments, actually. I am now writing it again, wincing in sympathy, as former Riot executive Greg Street has taken to LinkedIn to have an (understandable) moan about his studio’s lot….

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One thing most of us seem to agree on, from Sir Stephen Fry to Steve Bannon, is that artificial superintelligence development should be paused while we figure out, y’know, the safety concerns

Artificial superintelligence is, for most of us I think, quite a scary thought. A human-like AI, far more intelligent and capable than any we’ve seen before, developed by companies that often seem unprepared (or uncaring) towards the potential knock-on effects of its deployment. Goody. Still, we’ve been told by industry leaders like Mark Zuckerberg that…

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