July 30, 2024
AR/VR

Hamster Kombat 300 Million: A Record-Breaking Milestone and What’s Next

The game has now grown its user base to an all-time 300 million after March 2024, using Telegram. It had been growing faster than any other Telegram mini-app and had reached 100 million users in two months. That amounts to one-third of Telegram’s 950 million active users, battling it out with their hamsters. Absolutely insane. This just goes to show that Telegram is really potent in relation to gaming and communities. The HMSTR Token and

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Owen Skelton July 30, 2024

OpenAI launches experimental GPT-4o Long Output model with 16X token capacity

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More OpenAI is reportedly eyeing a cash crunch, but that isn’t stopping the preeminent generative AI company from continuing to release a steady stream of new models and updates. Yesterday, the company quietly posted a webpage announcing a new large language model (LLM): GPT-4o Long Output, which is a variation on its signature GPT-4o model from May,

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Carl Franzen July 30, 2024

Microsoft reports Xbox’s revenue is up 61% in Q4 FY24 thanks to Activision

GamesBeat is excited to partner with Lil Snack to have customized games just for our audience! We know as gamers ourselves, this is an exciting way to engage through play with the GamesBeat content you have already come to love. Start playing games here.  Microsoft today released its earnings report for the fourth quarter of the 2024 fiscal year, which included details on how Xbox is performing. According to the company’s financial reports, Xbox content

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Rachel Kaser July 30, 2024
Software

How to Deal With the Issue of Toxic Productivity | HackerNoon

What’s one of the most underrated feelings of the modern day? Feeling happy with where and who you are. People today are constantly being pushed to be more successful, effective, and productive. It is not even tied to our work anymore. Thanks to social media, this mindset has seeped into our personal lives. Have we gone too far, or can we still do something to deal with the issue of toxic productivity? What Is Toxic

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Daria Leshchenko July 30, 2024
Robotics

MIT CSAIL teaches robots to do chores using Real-to-Sim-to-Real – The Robot Report

Listen to this article [embedded content] To work in a wide range of real-world conditions, robots need to learn generalist policies. To that end, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, or MIT CSAIL, have created a Real-to-Sim-to-Real model. The goal of many developers is to create hardware and software so that robots can work everywhere under all conditions. However, a robot that operates in one person’s home doesn’t

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The Robot Report Staff July 30, 2024
Hardware

Windows 11 has a handy hidden shortcut that lets you kill frozen apps with a minimum of fuss

Windows 11 has a neat little feature hidden away that has just been discovered, and it’s all about making it far easier to accomplish a semi-regular chore – namely dealing with a misbehaving app. 2 End task feature has escaped from Task Manager and is now at large on the desktop, last seen in the taskbar (Image Credit: Microsoft) VIEW GALLERY – 2 IMAGES Tom’s Hardware spotted that a new option is in Windows 11

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Darren Allan July 30, 2024

Gladys West: The Hidden Figure Behind GPS

5 min read Willie Jones covers transportation for IEEE Spectrum and the history of technology for The Institute. Gladys West in the 1980s during her days as a mathematician and computer programmer at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, in Dahlgren, Va. Gladys West Schoolchildren around the world are told that they have the potential to be great, often with the cheery phrase: “The sky’s the limit!” Gladys West took those words literally. While working for

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Willie D. Jones July 30, 2024

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