September 25, 2024

Hardware

Nintendo is not interested in artificial intelligence, Miyamoto says

Legendary Mario and Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto reaffirms Nintendo’s stance on artificial intelligence. VIEW GALLERY – 2 IMAGES While companies like Electronic Arts are going all-in on generative AI, planning to use the nascent tech across its full fleet of games, portfolios, and studios, traditional game giants like Nintendo are keeping their roots steadfast and plan to keep actual artists in their employ. The conservative Japanese Mario-maker isn’t interested in using gen AI to help

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Hardware

Palworld developer Pocketpair officially responds to Nintendo lawsuit

Palworld developer Pocketpair has delivered a statement regarding Nintendo’s recent lawsuit. Nintendo is officially suing the Japanese team behind Palworld, aka the “Pokemon with guns” indie that took the world by storm in early 2024. But Nintendo isn’t suing for likeness rights violations, or any type of copyright issue. Instead, Nintendo is alleging that Pocketpair has somehow violated Nintendo’s patent rights. Official details about the case remain unknown, and the lawsuit has been filed in

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Bluesky and the AT Protocol: Usable Decentralized Social Media: Indexing Infrastructure | HackerNoon

Authors: (1) Martin Kleppmann, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK ([email protected]); (2) Paul Frazee, Bluesky Social PBC United States; (3) Jake Gold, Bluesky Social PBC United States; (4) Jay Graber, Bluesky Social PBC United States; (5) Daniel Holmgren, Bluesky Social PBC United States; (6) Devin Ivy, Bluesky Social PBC United States; (7) Jeromy Johnson, Bluesky Social PBC United States; (8) Bryan Newbold, Bluesky Social PBC United States; (9) Jaz Volpert, Bluesky Social PBC United States. Table

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Ai2’s new Molmo open source AI models beat GPT-4o, Claude on some benchmarks

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) today unveiled Molmo, an open-source family of state-of-the-art multimodal AI models which outpeform top proprietary rivals including OpenAI’s GPT-4o, Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Google’s Gemini 1.5 on several third-party benchmarks. The models can therefore accept and analyze imagery uploaded to them by users, similar to the leading proprietary foundation

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Software

Self-Hosting and Moderation in AT Protocol’s Personal Data Servers (PDS) | HackerNoon

Authors: (1) Martin Kleppmann, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK ([email protected]); (2) Paul Frazee, Bluesky Social PBC United States; (3) Jake Gold, Bluesky Social PBC United States; (4) Jay Graber, Bluesky Social PBC United States; (5) Daniel Holmgren, Bluesky Social PBC United States; (6) Devin Ivy, Bluesky Social PBC United States; (7) Jeromy Johnson, Bluesky Social PBC United States; (8) Bryan Newbold, Bluesky Social PBC United States; (9) Jaz Volpert, Bluesky Social PBC United States. Table

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How AT Protocol Repositories Secure and Store User Actions | HackerNoon

Authors: (1) Martin Kleppmann, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK ([email protected]); (2) Paul Frazee, Bluesky Social PBC United States; (3) Jake Gold, Bluesky Social PBC United States; (4) Jay Graber, Bluesky Social PBC United States; (5) Daniel Holmgren, Bluesky Social PBC United States; (6) Devin Ivy, Bluesky Social PBC United States; (7) Jeromy Johnson, Bluesky Social PBC United States; (8) Bryan Newbold, Bluesky Social PBC United States; (9) Jaz Volpert, Bluesky Social PBC United States. Table

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Hardware

PS5 Pro could lead to revitalized PS5 game sales thanks to new performance upgrades

Only 20 games have been confirmed to have enhanced PS5 Pro patches, but this list should grow over time and lead to a new wave of game sales for publishers and Sony’s first-party game developers. VIEW GALLERY – 2 IMAGES With new PSSR upscaling, RDNA 3.0 Raytracing tech, and a hefty 67% GPU upgrade, Sony’s new PS5 Pro offers thunderous power upgrades over the PS5. Depending on the game, developers no longer have to choose

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Resolution Games announces Home Sports for Meta Quests 3 & 3S

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.  Resolution Games today announced its latest title, a mixed-reality sports game called Home Sports. The game is made for Meta’s Quest 3 headsets, including the just-revealed Quest 3S.

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How ICP’s Chain Fusion Technology Enhances Decentralized AI Models | HackerNoon

It is audible to the deaf and visible to the blind that we are in the era of Artificial Intelligence (AI). You might have noticed this even when you were young, thanks to movies from as far back as the 1900s, such as the Terminator series and The Matrix, etc. Recently, there has been a rapid rise and widespread adoption of AI in our daily lives. This adoption spans various fields such as programming, finance, education,

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Software

The AT Protocol Architecture | HackerNoon

Authors: (1) Martin Kleppmann, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK ([email protected]); (2) Paul Frazee, Bluesky Social PBC United States; (3) Jake Gold, Bluesky Social PBC United States; (4) Jay Graber, Bluesky Social PBC United States; (5) Daniel Holmgren, Bluesky Social PBC United States; (6) Devin Ivy, Bluesky Social PBC United States; (7) Jeromy Johnson, Bluesky Social PBC United States; (8) Bryan Newbold, Bluesky Social PBC United States; (9) Jaz Volpert, Bluesky Social PBC United States. Table

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