Google search’s AI overviews are awful, but here’s a browser extension that gets rid of them

Among the countless examples of the ever-burgeoning ens***ification of the internet, Google’s AI-powered search overviews rank pretty highly. Verily, I pine for the days of reliable, organic search results devoid of AI slop. But don’t despair. Well, not entirely. For the editor-in-chief of our sister website, Tom’s Hardware, has come up with a browser extension…

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‘The problem isn’t necessarily the yellow paint’, says the Witcher 4 design lead, but its overuse: ‘People see through the smoke and mirrors’

One of the more surface-level discourses in videogames in recent memory has been the hullabaloo over yellow paint—gamers the world over decrying games with obvious sunshine climbables as being patronising slop for little babies (I’m exaggerating, a little). But Miles Tost, the level design lead for The Witcher 4, tells PCG’s Joshua Wolens that it’s…

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Epic cops to the Epic Games Store sucking for the 2nd time in a month as it proudly announces its money-hose has spaffed over $2 billion

I’m beginning to think poor Epic is developing some sort of complex. Nary a month after CEO Tim Sweeney took to the airwaves to admit that, yeah, the Epic Games Store sure is clunky, the store’s general manager Steve Allison has taken to the stage (via GamesRadar) at yesterday’s Unreal Fest to admit that “even…

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DeepMind boss ‘would pay thousands of dollars per month’ to get rid of his email, so Google is working on a next-gen Gmail AI that will answer them in ‘your style—and maybe make some of the easier decisions’ for you

My Gmail inbox currently has 84,685 unread emails. Were there an AI tool that could clear my backlog automatically, let’s just say you could sign me up and take my money. It’s the only way I’m going to achieve inbox hygiene (there’s always the trashcan button – Ed.). Rejoice, then, because the head of Google…

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