‘If engineers are becoming three or four times more productive, then we just [want to] do three or four times more stuff’: Google DeepMind CEO reckons AI-induced job cuts aren’t inevitable

Efficiency gains are often cited as the reason to bring more AI into the workplace, though concerns over resulting job losses are never far behind. It might surprise you, then, to learn that the head of Google DeepMind, Demis Hassabis, actually thinks job cuts caused by AI are not the way forward. Today’s wealth of…

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Backrooms actor Chiwetel Ejiofor was surprised to find out the 30,000 square foot set is the first of its kind: ‘I thought that somewhere it had been built before’

We’re just over a week away from the release of A24’s Backrooms film, and while horror fans have been eating particularly well so far this year, this one’s really for the horror game players as director Kane Parsons seeks to adapt a long running and much loved creepypasta. The bar’s pretty high considering just how…

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Subnautica 2 devs have heard your ‘strong request’ for combat, but it’s not going to happen: ‘Subnautica has always been built around vulnerability, exploration, and survival’

One of the biggest discussions emerging from Subnautica 2‘s tsunami of an early access launch is the debate over combat. Just a few days ago, we reported that developer Unknown Worlds says players “are here to exist on this planet, not dominate it.” Still, that’s not stopped many players from demanding the means to fight…

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Tech leaker suggests that AMD has a Ryzen 7 7700X3D lined up in the wings but if the specs are correct, it’ll need to be genuinely cheap to sell well

Given the veritable wealth of different Ryzen X3D processors AMD has been churning out in recent times, you’d be forgiven for missing the fact that there’s been one notable absence from the full list: a 5700X3D equivalent of the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. However, if one social media post is to be believed, then that box…

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Arc Raiders has added Denuvo anticheat ‘initially to a limited player pool’ after a successful rollout in The Finals

Arc Raiders’ has had somewhat of a long struggle with cheaters. It’s plagued the extraction shooter pretty much from day one, with the few players who are guilty of it ruining the game for the masses as they’d use wallhacks or extra-sensory perception to ruthlessly hunt down other players. Over the months since Arc Raiders’…

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