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Game characters have come a long way in the last few years, but Genies — the company best known for its ultra-stylized digital avatars — is kicking that evolution into high gear. After announcing a partnership with Unity this summer, the company has begun rolling out its first set of tools to developers: the Genies Avatar SDK, now available on the Unity Asset Store. The process is exceptionally easy: Drop this package into your project, and suddenly your game can support high-fidelity, fully customizable player avatars that persist across any game built using the Unity dev engine and that plugs…
OpenAI is in a far less commanding position than it was following the public release of ChatGPT a few short years ago.Back in 2022, the sudden popularity of ChatGPT sent Google into a panic. The company was so worried about the possibility of the upstart chatbot disrupting its Search business, executives sounded a “code red” alert inside of the company and called Sergey Brin and Larry Page out of retirement to help it formulate a response to OpenAI. It then rushed out Bard, announcing its first commercial chatbot on February 6, 2023. Google’s stock tanked days later when the AI…
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Odlin confirms that for all of the Icelandic wood-chip ocean deposits, it was impossible for Running Tide to monitor the wood chips for more than three hours after their release, saying, “We couldn’t measure signal from noise in the ocean on the alkalinity.”The Dead ZoneDespite having sold credits to Stripe, Shopify, Microsoft, and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, financial pressures on Running Tide continued to mount as the flow of funds from Silicon Valley dried up. According to one former employee, Odlin would start meetings in spring 2024 by announcing that the company had only a few more weeks of funds…
Rogue has always been one of my favorite X-Men thanks to the X-Men Evolution animated series and the Fox movies I grew up with (justice for Anna Paquin!), and I was curious how Marvel Rivals would balance a hero with unlimited possibilities for a competitive game. Now that we’ve finally seen her in action, it’s clear NetEase just made her a comic-accurate powerhouse, and fans are terrified of the power-siphoning hero’s abilities. For those not steeped in X-Men knowledge, Rogue is a mutant with the ability to absorb people’s memories, personality, and powers at the slightest touch. Typically, this exchange…
Rockstar Games may have to answer for what appears to be union-busting behavior. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, under pressure from parliament, said the government will “look into” the firing of 31 employees in October.The sacked workers were all part of a private trade union chat group on Discord. The company claimed the firings were “for gross misconduct” and accused the workers of sharing confidential information outside of the company.But based on what we know, it’s hard to see that characterization as anything but union-busting in search of legal cover. The Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) described the…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. In 1993, Mike Lawson, an aerospace entrepreneur based in Roswell, Georgia, unveiled his vision for a brave new future of advertising: space billboards. This wasn’t a half-baked scheme: Lawson had meticulous plans for a proposed 1996 launch: His team of engineers would shoot a package of tightly-wound mylar into orbit about 180 miles above the Earth. Once there, the material would unfurl into a thin, reflective sheet up to a mile long and a quarter mile tall, bordered by a series of mylar tubes which would…
With a key Russian launch pad out of service, NASA is accelerating the launch of two Cargo Dragon spaceships in order to ensure that astronauts on board the International Space Station have all the supplies they need next year. According to the space agency’s internal schedule, the next Dragon supply mission, CRS-34, is moving forward one month from June 2026 to May. And the next Dragon supply mission after this, CRS-35, has been advanced three months from November to August. A source indicated that the changing schedules are a “direct result” of a launch pad incident on Thanksgiving Day at…
Amazon is of perishable food items to 1,300 new cities and towns throughout the country, upping the total service area to more than 2,300 locations. This expansion covers cities like Boise, Salt Lake City, Fort Collins, Omaha, Des Moines and many more.Check the link to see . The commerce giant says it will be bringing the service to even more cities in 2026, making the platform a real rival to stuff like Instacart and Walmart+.Amazon and it has proven to be quite the success, given today’s move. It lets people order perishable food items like fruits, vegetables, dairy and meat…
When a brand name becomes synonymous with an entire market, it’s probably pretty good. The first name that pops up when you’re shopping for ultra-compact, ultra-high-resolution portable and wearable cameras is almost always GoPro, so it’s a big deal when their latest and best camera — the MAX2 — goes on sale for the first time ever. Amazon’s limited-time 20% off deal drops the price of the GoPro MAX2 camera and all of its amazing features and technology to $400, and just in time for the holidays. The GoPro MAX2 makes an amazing gift for a friend, loved one, or…