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If you spend your time editing videos, you may have already invested in a macropad. Or, you’re probably used to the monotony of spamming shortcuts on your keyboard to swap between different tools. This can be a pain on the wrist because of the angle you hover over a keyboard, but there’s now a new…
ChatTJB, according to its Crunchbase profile, is a service that “provides a personal conversational response where an individual directly receives, processes, and writes answers to user inquiries”. That’s technically true, but not in the way you think… because it’s just sorta some guy. Futurism got to sit down with Tucker Bryant, the man behind ChatTJB,…
World bosses have been a part of the World of Warcraft player’s diet since classic—in case you haven’t played the game, what separates a world boss from any other raid encounter is the fact that it’s (self-explanatorily) out in the world, something you need to party up to defeat without going into a cave somewhere….
If one thing is true about AI, it’s that there’s a lot of money in it. Nvidia became the first $5 trillion company because of its role in the explosion of AI data centers, and OpenAI has been rounding up tens of billions in investments. So you’d think AI companies could buy pretty much whatever…
Keeping on top of chipset driver updates is a boring, but necessary part of maintaining a modern PC. Unfortunately, both myself and fellow hardware nerd Jacob Fox have run into an issue with the AMD Install Manager, which attempts to install the latest chipset driver and fails miserably on both our machines. Very unhelpfully, the…
A new report suggests New Zealand born actor Sam Neill, who passed away in July, will appear in the forthcoming The Legend of Zelda film adaptation. According to Deadline‘s sources, filming for the Nintendo and Sony collaboration wrapped in April, just months before the star’s death. While Neill’s appearance hasn’t been confirmed by Sony, the…
As soon as Fields of Mistria 1.0 landed I rushed to shove gifts into my lovers’ faces and drag them on dates to hustle my way to the coveted 10 heart threshold for marriage, only to find out that, woof, crafting an engagement ring is a real investment! The material cost isn’t actually that steep…
There are now three Magic: The Gathering cards for Sting, the magic sword Bilbo claims from the troll hoard. To be fair, they’re all mechanically distinct. In The Lord of the Rings set there was an artifact card called Sting, the Glinting Dagger, and an instant called Hobbit’s Sting that did more damage the more…
A very Quake-themed QuakeCon kicked off today, with John Romero and current id studio co-director Marty Stratton speaking on a panel celebrating the shooter’s 30th anniversary. A new 19-level Quake episode was announced and released during the panel, which also featured a brief livestreamed appearance from Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor. Reznor famously composed the…
Just a smidge over 30 years after its original release date, Quake just got a big update. MachineGames has added a new chapter to id Software’s landmark 1996 successor to the Doom games, dubbed Dawn of the Machine. The 19 new levels, which join two previous MachineGames expansions, see Quake’s protagonist trapped in “a dimension…