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Making AI feel more human could be creating a bigger problem than expected. A new study from the Oxford Internet Institute revealed that chatbots designed to be warm and friendly are more likely to mislead users and reinforce incorrect beliefs. The research found that AI becomes less reliable as it starts getting more agreeable. What happens to a “friendly” AI Researchers tested multiple AI models by training them to sound more empathetic and conversational. The result was a noticeable drop in accuracy. These “friendlier” versions made 10-30% more mistakes and were about 40% more likely to agree with false claims…
Electric vehicles are now common on the road, but charging still remains one of the biggest friction points. Even when you find a fast charger, stopping can easily add 30 minutes or more to a trip, which makes long distance travel feel less convenient compared to refueling a gas car. At BYD’s charging facility in Beijing, the company is already demonstrating a system that aims to remove that delay. Vehicles are pulling in, plugging in, and charging using BYD’s second generation Blade Battery and flash charging setup, giving a clearer picture of how the technology works outside a controlled prototype…
The memory and NAND shortage has already pushed up prices for laptops, phones, consumer RAM, and other upgrade-heavy devices. Samsung’s latest earnings report now suggests the pressure may soon extend to more electronics that rely on advanced chips and built-in storage. The company says demand is already far ahead of supply, and the gap could get worse in 2027. Buyers planning to purchase a phone, laptop, gaming PC, console, TV, or smart device over the next year may feel the impact. Why should buyers care about Samsung’s warning? Samsung reported a record quarter as booming AI demand helped its chip…
After last year’s Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, the universe is expanding with another new game later this year, this time a visual novel. Titled Vampire: The Masquerade – Oaths and Ashes, this visual novel is set in contemporary Berlin and follows the rules of the 5th Edition of the long-running tabletop RPG. It will launch on PC via Steam later this year. Players will take on the roles of two protagonists: Alice, a Venture operative dispatched by the Camarilla faction who must keep the city’s other factions destabilized, and Lenz, a Thinblood outsider trying to survive. The two form…
Microsoft just dropped one of the most meaningful updates for the ROG Xbox Ally and Ally X. The latter is also getting Auto SR, Xbox’s AI-powered upscaling technology, as a preview for Xbox Insiders, starting today. For those catching up, Auto SR, short for Automatic Super Resolution, operates at the Windows OS level rather than requiring developers to add it to individual games. This means that any DirectX 11 or DirectX 12 title can potentially benefit from the technology, without an additional patch. What is Auto SR, and why does it matter? When docked, Auto SR uses the Ally X’s…
Extremely OK Games, the developer/publisher (formerly known as Maddy Makes Games) behind 2018’s Celeste, has revealed City of None, a new metroidvania platformer launching next year. Alongside Extremely OK Games, Celeste co-creator Noel Berry and his brother Liam Berry are developing City of None, which sees you control a wooden protagonist as they adventure through a strange city’s five sectors. You will venture by train to these five sectors while exploring their various pathways as you meet friendly metropolitan inhabitants and many a foe to defeat. While the movement looks reminiscent of Celeste, City of None is going for an even…
Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses are at the center of yet another controversy. A Kenyan AI training firm called Sama, which Meta used to help train its AI, saw its contract abruptly terminated shortly after its workers came forward with deeply troubling allegations (via BBC). The workers claim they were repeatedly exposed to graphic content captured through Meta’s glasses, and now more than a thousand of them have lost their jobs. The disturbing footage behind Meta’s AI training Sama’s workers were data annotators, a role that involves manually labeling video content to teach Meta’s AI how to interpret images. They also…
Motorola’s Edge 70 Pro has now made its global debut after launching in India last week. The hardware is impressive, though the first thing most people will probably notice is the way it looks. The phone has a slim quad-curved body, textured finishes, and Pantone-curated colors that give it a polished look. Motorola has also paired that styling with a very bright 5200 nits 6.8-inch AMOLED screen, which should make the phone easy to use outdoors. What makes the Edge 70 Pro look different? The design is the main talking point, with Motorola offering four distinct looks for the Edge…
Wizards of the Coast is publishing a new trading card game that’s been in the works for nearly three decades. Mark Rosewater’s Mood Swings is a new kind of card game for the Magic makers, but seems both easy to learn and easy to share with others.Mood Swings is billed as a trading card game you won’t have to “build,” playable entirely out of the box. It’s a light strategy experience for two-to-four players, and the idea is that you buy a deck of Mood Swings and it will be playable right out of the box, even if the cards…
There’s a very specific kind of frustration that comes with talking to your car. You say something perfectly normal, and it responds like it’s hearing you for the first time. “I didn’t get that.” “Please try again.” Or worse, it confidently pulls up something completely unrelated. For years, in-car voice assistants have lived in that awkward space — just useful enough to keep you trying. That may finally be changing. Google is bringing Gemini to cars with Google built-in, gradually replacing Google Assistant with something that’s designed to understand natural, everyday speech. And if the difference between the two felt…