Microsoft’s Xbox division will be hit with significant layoffs next month, according to people familiar with Microsoft’s plans. The company has been preparing for the layoffs internally for weeks, with Xbox CEO Asha Sharma hinting about “making hard choices” last month. Sources suggest the cuts could even involve a studio closure, or changes to the […]
Voltron may sound like an ointment for back pain, but the reboot Legendary Defender demonstrates that there’s more to the big stompy robots concept than meets the eye.
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Aaron Sorkin returns with The Social Reckoning, a companion piece to The Social Network centered on the Facebook whistleblower scandal and Jeremy Strong as Zuckerberg.
New college graduates around the country have been booing and heckling commencement speakers who hype up AI. Microsoft would like everyone to talk it out. In a blog post running more than 3,100 words, Microsoft vice chair and president Brad Smith addressed the recent spate of viral clips from graduation ceremonies, like former Google CEO […]
The Whos in Whoville won’t have a very merry Christmas this year.
If you’ve uploaded a song to YouTube, Google almost certainly considers your video fair game for training its Lyria music AI, it just won’t admit it right now. A group of independent musicians is suing Google, claiming that it illegally used songs they uploaded to YouTube to train its Lyria 3 model. Google has filed […]
It’s no secret that American Horror Story season 13 will be a direct spinoff of Coven — but one star has teaser ‘freakier’ things to come as production continues.
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We checked out Gears of War E-Day and chatted to the devs at Summer Games Fest, to find out more about the latest chapter in the Gears saga.
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Over 15 years after David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Network premiered in theaters, Sony has released the first trailer for The Social Reckoning ahead of its theatrical release on October 9th. The follow-up takes place 17 years after the events portrayed in the original film and follows a young Facebook engineer who enlists […]
A jazz label turned a faceless AI song into a statement about human creativity and built a tool to back it up.