The Fridge

If you’re a House Flipper or PowerWash sicko you’ve gotta check out The Lift, a game about being a space-repairman in a spooky faux-Soviet research base

It’s odd, I think, that so few videogames focus on the tender process of repair. Restoration is satisfying in a way almost nothing else is. Taking something broken, shattered, discarded and, by careful work, returning it to purpose is inherently pleasing, like you’re reinstating a tiny bit of order in the world. I reckon that’s…

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the US needs to ‘go compete’ with AI chips against China because ‘they’re nanoseconds behind us’

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang claims that China is “nanoseconds behind” the US in terms of AI technology and chipmaking. During an interview on the BG2 podcast, a tech and investment focused bi-weekly program, the CEO of Nvidia echoed a sentiment similar to that of comments he made back in May of this year about how…

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Slapping screens on absolutely everything is the most unnecessary hardware ‘must-have’ I’ve seen to date, and I’m not mad, I’m just disappointed

Andy Edser, Hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This month I’ve been testing: Two new mice at the same time—one of which is very heavy, one of which is very light. As a result, I now have one forearm bigger than the other. Stop writing your own punchlines, I beg of you. Hardware fashion trends, they…

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The AI industry’s latest curse on humanity is a fake ‘actress’ it wants to turn into ‘the next Scarlett Johansson’

Hey, want to see something horrible? Here’s AI actress Tilly Norwood—which is already more anthropomorphisation than I feel strictly comfortable with—in a comedy sketch called AI Commissioner. Wretched, right? But buckle up, because Tilly’s creators (via Variety) want to turn her into the next big thing. The homunculus-of-code-known-as-Tilly-Norwood is produced by a studio called Xicoia,…

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