If there’s one thing I appreciate in both games and sentences, it’s brevity. Johan Vinet, the solo developer behind Castaway, must share a similar appreciation. The founder of Canari Games (LUNARK) recently released his latest work, and it’s a punchy little sendup to The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening and other portable entries that delivers…
From the editors of Computerworld, this enterprise buyer’s guide helps IT staff understand what the various remote IT support tools can do for their organizations and how to choose the right solution.
Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it will begin testing its controversial “Recall” AI search and recall feature for Windows Insiders in October. Earlier, it was slated for launch in June. “As previously shared on June 13, we have adjusted our release approach to leverage the valuable expertise of our Windows Insider community prior to making…
Market research firm Gartner yesterday published its 2024 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, and the study revealed that generative AI (genAI) has passed the “peak of inflated expectations” and is now sliding down into the “trough of disillusionment.” Along with genAI, AI-augmented software engineering is also heading down the slope, after passing its inflated expectations…
It wasn’t long ago that Owlcat Games (Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader, Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous) announced that they were getting into the publishing business, and now they’re ready to show off their partnership with Emotion Spark Studio to publish their upcoming adventure game, Rue Valley. They’ve provided the first real trailer for Rue Valley,…
“Sal awakens; she smells coffee. A few minutes ago her alarm clock, alerted by her restless rolling before waking, had quietly asked ‘coffee?’ and she mumbled ‘yes.’ ‘Yes’ and ‘no’ are the only words it knows.” Then, the alarm clock tells the coffee maker to get busy — and Sal’s morning has begun. This scenario was described by Mark Weiser, a computer scientist and the CTO at Xerox PARC…
Agentic RAG is getting a lot of attention these days as a practical way to reduce — or, depending on the audacity of the vendor, eliminate — hallucinations from generative AI (genAI) tools. Sadly, it might not decrease hallucinations — but it could open the door to other problems. To be clear, there’s nothing bad about Agentic RAG…
Pixel phones are filled with efficiency-enhancing Google intelligence, and one area that’s all too easy to overlook is the way the devices can improve the act of actually talking on your cellular telephone. That’s true for any Pixel model, no matter how old it may be, and it’s especially true for the new Pixel 9…
As the excitement about the immense potential of large language models (LLMs) dies down, now comes the hard work of ironing out the things they don’t do well. The word “hallucination” is the most obvious example, but at least output that is crazily fictitious stands out as wrong. It’s the lesser mistakes – factual…
Thanks to her ability to deal significant damage while also applying overwhelming amounts of daze by mixing her enhanced basic attacks and Moonlit Begonia EX Special in 50+ hit combos, it is not a surprise that Qingyi arrived to claim the spot of the best Electric stun agent in Zenless Zone Zero. But just like…