Paizo Releases First Draft for Its Universal RPG License to the Public
Just as the weekend started, TTRPG company Paizo has published the first draft of its Open RPG Creative License (ORC).
All the Star Wars and Indiana Jones Toys Hasbro Revealed at Star Wars Celebration
Star Wars Celebration brings plenty of news with it from the galaxy far, far away, but it also brings future opportunities to drain your wallet. Hasbro understood this more than anyone else at their panel at the London convention, and they brought out big announcements from Star Wars and Indiana Jones to whet fans…
Lawmakers Ask DOJ to Investigate “Hollowed Out” Warner Bros. Discovery
Last year, Warner Bros. was acquired by the Discovery Channel, and the resulting merger has been more than a little chaotic. Things got off to a rough start with the sudden cancellation of Batgirl, and has since spiraled into multiple shows getting canceled (some of them not even getting to air) and series getting …
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Estonian National charged with helping Russia acquire U.S. hacking tools and electronics
Andrey Shevlyakov, an Estonian national, was charged in the US with conspiracy and other charges related to acquiring U.S.-made electronics on behalf of the Russian government and military. The Estonian man is accused of having helped the Russian government and military to purchase US-made electronics and hacking tools. The defendant was arrested in Estonia on […]
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Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen Get Emotional Over Their Obi-Wan Kenobi Showdown
Though the look back at Obi-Wan Kenobi panel at Star Wars Celebration didn’t have any news about a second season of the show, it did give fans in attendance a new found appreciation for what the show meant to the cast and crew who worked on it.
Andor Never Had An Opposition to Using Mandalorian’s VFX Tech
Andor was lauded for its grounded approach to Star Wars, leaning on a physicality to its production that rooted the audience in its grittier take on the galaxy far, far away—which also meant a different approach to VFX that contrasted with the recent rise of Stagecraft and “The Volume,” the screen-based set that…
Kasparov vs. Deep Blue: the Chess Match That Changed Our Minds About AI
In May of 1997, Garry Kasparov sat down at a chess board in a Manhattan skyscraper. Kasparov, considered the best chess player of all time, wasn’t challenging another grandmaster. He was playing with an AI called Deep Blue. Deep Blue was one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, built by IBM with a specific…
Open Channel: What’d You Think of the Super Mario Bros. Movie?
Just a few months in, and 2023 is already shaping up to be a fairly impressive year for movies. After a little bit of a delay, Illumination and Nintendo released their CG Super Mario Bros. movie earlier in the week.
Don’t Play Poker With ChatGPT
The past few years have seen an explosion of progress in large language model artificial intelligence systems that can do things like write poetry, conduct humanlike conversations and pass medical school exams. This progress has yielded models like ChatGPT that could have major social and economic ramifications…
Elon Musk Decides NPR Is Not State Propaganda After All
Twitter CEO Elon Musk has decided that NPR is not the same as media outlets like China’s Xinhua News, which is a well-known state propaganda machine, after all, even though he classified them both as “state-affiliated media” on the social media network this past Wednesday. After receiving pushback from NPR, Musk…