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An AI Was Taught to Play the World’s Hardest Video Game and Still Couldn’t Set a New Record

What’s the hardest video game you’ve ever played? If it wasn’t QWOP then let me tell you right know that you don’t know how truly difficult a game can be. The deceptively simple running game is so challenging to master that even an AI trained using machine learning still only mustered a top 10 score…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

NOAA Acknowledges the New Reality of Hurricane Season

We’re one step closer to officially moving up hurricane season. The National Hurricane Center announced Tuesday that it would formally start issuing its hurricane season tropical weather outlooks on May 15 this year, bumping it up from the traditional start of hurricane season on June 1. The move comes after a recent spate of early…

Earth Science Molly Taft

Merck Will Help Johnson & Johnson Make Its New Covid-19 Vaccine With Biden Push

Johnson & Johnson is getting some help to make their newly available covid-19 vaccine. On Tuesday, the White House confirmed that pharmaceutical company Merck has agreed to step in and produce some of J&J’s vaccines, in order to address a potential shortfall in supply. The single dose vaccine was authorized for emergency use by federal…

Health Ed Cara

Cloud Gaming’s Missing Piece Is 5G

When my brother and I were kids, our family took a lot of road trips. We loved the end destinations, but getting there was a major drag. We had Game Boy Colors and other handhelds, but we had already played the games we owned way too many times. Consoles and desktop PCs aren’t exactly portable,…

Internet Joanna Nelius

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Kara Zor-El Will Speak Softly and Carry a Big Sword in Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow

At a time when DC is putting out comics about a new futuristic era of superheroics, writer Tom King and artists Bilquis Evely and Mat Lopes are bringing Kara Zor-El front and center with a story that’s all her own. In Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, Kara and Krypto are all too familiar with what it…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

Sony Is Killing On-Demand Video in the Playstation Store as Streaming Takes Over

The streaming video business is booming, and while that makes it easier to access tons of content, for some companies like Sony, it makes it less attractive to manage digital storefronts, so at the end of August, Sony is disabling the ability to buy on-demand videos in the PlayStation Store. In a new blog posted…

Tech News Sam Rutherford

Now That WandaVision‘s Said the Scarlet Witch’s Name, Here’s What It Means

In the final moments of WandaVision’s most recent episode, the name that’s been on everyone’s mind ever since Wanda Maximoff first showed up in Captain America: The Winter Soldier’s post-credits sequence was spoken. Wanda’s come a long way from levitating blocks at a Hydra facility and putting nightmares into people’s minds. The reveal of her…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

Apple Hearing Study Finds 1 in 5 Participants Experienced Hearing Loss

Apple introduced the ability to track your noise level exposure on the Apple Watch back in 2019. The company also launched three clinical research studies alongside that feature, including one to examine hearing health. Now, a little over a year later, Apple’s sharing some preliminary results in time for World Hearing Day. For the Apple…

Tech News Victoria Song

Exiled WallStreetBets Mods Want to Make a Blockchain-Based Hedge Fund

As praises from celebrity investors and movie deals rained on the subreddit/memestock trading floor WallStreetBets, its two contingents of its moderators went to war, each accusing the other of profiteering off the community’s newfound fame. Now, those beaten in the squabble intend to start a competing community which will act like a “decentralized hedge fund.”…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

Samsung Is Making MicroLED TV Sizes That Are More Practical for Us Commoners

Samsung’s consumer-friendly version of its larger-than-life The Wall display will eventually be available in a more reasonable 76-inch version—you know, for those of us whose homes can’t actually accommodate 110-inch televisions. Samsung announced the smaller version of the MicroLED TVs today during its big Unbox and Discover event. While the 76-inch MicroLED will be made…

Gadgets Catie Keck

Someone Made a Fully Playable Game of Pong Inside a macOS Icon

Apple has always pushed its hardware as tools for creative types—not toys for gamers—but that hasn’t stopped creative developers from turning Macs into unique gaming machines, like putting Lemmings on the Touch Bar, and now putting an icon-sized playable version of Pong in the dock. By day Neil Sardesai is an iOS engineer at a…

Games Andrew Liszewski

Updates From Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania, Borderlands, and More

Bruce Campbell just keeps on teasing his tiny role in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Netflix is making a new Wu Assassins movie. Get another new look at Netflix’s DOTA anime. Plus, teases for the next season of American Horror Story, and what’s coming on Batwoman and The Walking Dead. Spoilers now! Ant-Man…

Television James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson

This Startup Can Deepfake Household Products Into Your Home

The e-commerce industry spends a lot of time and energy trying to keep the public interested in its wares and traditionally this has involved spending cash on photography: taking nice pictures of your products has typically been the best way to keep users scrolling to your page on the likes of Amazon or Shopify. But…

Tech News Lucas Ropek

In This Exclusive Trailer for My True Fairytale, a Teen Superhero’s Powers Begin to Awaken

My True Fairytale, the story of a teen girl who starts exploring her burgeoning superpowers after a traumatic experience, is the passion project of writer-director D.Mitry, who drew upon his own personal tragedy while he was creating it. io9 has an exclusive look at the trailer and poster today. First up, here’s the trailer, which…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

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Abigail Allwood’s Hunt for Alien Fossils on Mars Has Begun

When the NASA Mars rover Perseverance was dramatically airlifted through the Red Planet’s atmosphere and touched down on the iron-rich soil, geologist and astrobiologist Abigail Allwood was at home on Earth, watching the events unfold via livestream like the rest of us. Speaking over the phone the next day, her thought process was probably similar…

Space & Spaceflight Isaac Schultz

Twitter Launches Five-Strike System to Ban Users Who Spread Covid-19 Lies

Twitter will ban users who spread misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic and covid-19 vaccines under a new five-strike system, according to a new blog post from the social media company. Twitter bans all medical information that’s “demonstrably false or misleading and may lead to significant risk of harm.” “Through the use of the strike system,…

Health Matt Novak

Apps Are Birth Control Now

Exhausted and disoriented, I arrive tempest-tossed on the shores of our dystopia to tell you the good news: Apps are birth control now. On Monday, the period-tracking app Clue announced that it had received clearance from the FDA to launch a digital birth control function that will use statistical modeling to closely track users’ menstrual…

Tech News Brianna Provenzano

My Cries for an Agatha Harkness Toy Have Been Heard

And the other guy, too! Oh, and spoiler warning for the latest episode of WandaVision—don’t click through if you haven’t seen it. It only took three days from the premiere of “Previously On” for Funko to released pics of an enormous-noggined Agatha in her full witch togs and the white version of Vision. Of course…

Toys & Collectibles Rob Bricken

Riverdale‘s KJ Apa Wishes Fans Understood That He’s Not Archie Andrews

In Riverdale’s third season, Archie Andrews (K.J. Apa) got himself thrown in the clink after deciding to plead guilty to a murder he didn’t commit. Though the choice was meant to demonstrate the lengths Archie would go in order to spare his loved ones, it ended up becoming Riverdale’s excuse for veering further into fanfic…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

Lucky Is a Surreal Nightmare About Facing Your Worst Fears

There are cracks already forming in the carefully curated life of self-help author May (Brea Grant) even before she must confront a sudden and apparently otherworldly intrusion into her life. But as Lucky’s protagonist comes to find out, even facing her problems head-on doesn’t guarantee they’ll be solved. Lucky, directed by Natasha Kermani (Imitation Girl)…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

An AI Was Taught to Play the World’s Hardest Video Game and Still Couldn’t Set a New Record

NOAA Acknowledges the New Reality of Hurricane Season

Merck Will Help Johnson & Johnson Make Its New Covid-19 Vaccine With Biden Push

Cloud Gaming’s Missing Piece Is 5G

Kara Zor-El Will Speak Softly and Carry a Big Sword in Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow

Sony Is Killing On-Demand Video in the Playstation Store as Streaming Takes Over

Now That WandaVision‘s Said the Scarlet Witch’s Name, Here’s What It Means

Apple Hearing Study Finds 1 in 5 Participants Experienced Hearing Loss

Exiled WallStreetBets Mods Want to Make a Blockchain-Based Hedge Fund

Samsung Is Making MicroLED TV Sizes That Are More Practical for Us Commoners

Someone Made a Fully Playable Game of Pong Inside a macOS Icon

Updates From Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania, Borderlands, and More

This Startup Can Deepfake Household Products Into Your Home

In This Exclusive Trailer for My True Fairytale, a Teen Superhero’s Powers Begin to Awaken

Abigail Allwood’s Hunt for Alien Fossils on Mars Has Begun

Twitter Launches Five-Strike System to Ban Users Who Spread Covid-19 Lies

Apps Are Birth Control Now

My Cries for an Agatha Harkness Toy Have Been Heard

Riverdale‘s KJ Apa Wishes Fans Understood That He’s Not Archie Andrews

Lucky Is a Surreal Nightmare About Facing Your Worst Fears

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