August 29, 2024

Remedy partners with Annapurna to turn Control into a multimedia franchise

GamesBeat Next is connecting the next generation of video game leaders. And you can join us, coming up October 28th and 29th in San Francisco! Take advantage of our buy one, get one free pass offer. Sale ends this Friday, August 16th. Join us by registering here.  Remedy announced today that it is partnering with Annapurna Interactive, both on the development of its upcoming title Control 2 and on taking Control and its sibling franchise,

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Software

Dev Diary #3: The Sneaky Issue That Was Silently Ruining Our Database | HackerNoon

It’s one o’clock in the morning. My phone starts going crazy. I groan and look over. Sure enough, it’s another PagerDuty call. I am on-call this week, and it’s the third time in as many days that I have been woken up for the same reason. Hundreds of our customers have complained in unison, for three days in a row, that they have purchased event tickets from us and arrived at the venue only to

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Meta leads open-source AI boom, Llama downloads surge 10x year-over-year

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Open-source AI is finally closing in on the dominance of closed-source. Today, Meta, one of the leading players in the open model category, shared a mid-year update claiming that the adoption of its Llama family of models has surged to new heights, especially since the release of the large Llama 3.1 last month. The Mark Zuckerberg-led

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Software

MiCA: Exploring Innovative Compliance Solutions For Web3 Startups | HackerNoon

Whether the SEC is issuing a Wells Notice or the FCA is licensing a crypto exchange, the reality is that crypto regulation has finally come to stay. It’s evolving rapidly, catching up with emerging markets, and defining the modus operandi of the brave new world. This article explores the recently approved Markets In Crypto Assets (MiCA) regulation–a global benchmark for comprehensive crypto regulation–and the challenges facing startups in the EU’s crypto market and such innovative

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World of Warcraft director is ready to lead the MMO’s future with The War Within

GamesBeat Next is connecting the next generation of video game leaders. And you can join us, coming up October 28th and 29th in San Francisco! Take advantage of our buy one, get one free pass offer. Sale ends this Friday, August 16th. Join us by registering here.  World of Warcraft has recently released its tenth expansion, The War Within, and the long-running MMO is entering this new era with some noticeable swagger. After some missteps

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Software

LLMs: Is NIST’s AI Safety Consortium Relevant Amid California’s SB 1047? | HackerNoon

How big of a problem is digital piracy? It can be argued that regulation and litigation have ensured mitigation from the mainstream. However, when some AI companies needed training data, why were pirated copies of contents allegedly [accessible to be] crawled and scraped? Why are several other unlawful events possible online, in ways that are not in the physical world—so to speak? What is peculiar about digital that makes it difficult for regulation and litigation to

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Robotics

Fieldwork Robotics unveils new Fieldworker 1 robot for efficient berry picking – The Robot Report

Listen to this article The new Fieldworker 1 robot can navigate the rows between plants to autonomously pick ripe fruit. | Credit: Fieldwork Robotics Fieldwork Robotics Ltd. yesterday unveiled the Fieldworker 1, a robot designed to automate berry picking. The Cambridge, U.K.-based company said it expects the robot to pick berries at speeds similar to human workers and to work in a fleet managed by a single operator in the field. Fieldworker 1 includes significant

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MEET48 GIPR2 Idols performed At Fantasy Bullish Night with Steve Aoki, Ignited The WebX 2024 | HackerNoon

TOKYO, Japan, August 29th, 2024/Chainwire/–On the evening of August 27, MEET48, in collaboration with partners such as Line Next, hosted the official opening party of Japan’s WebX, the Fantasy Bullish Night. The event featured the Top 7 idols from MEET48 GIPR2 voting activity (members of the SNH48 Group) performing on stage with the legendary DJ Steve Aoki, setting the venue ablaze with energy. After the MEET48 GIPR2 Top 7 idols performed, the atmosphere reached an

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