The emotional mimicry of OpenAI’s new version of ChatGPT could lead AI assistants in some strange—even dangerous—directions.
At the PGA Championship, Scheffler can become the first golfer to win the first two majors of a season since 2015.
The PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club tees off Thursday in Louisville, Kentucky, with a longer course and stormy weather in the forecast.
President Biden, trailing in polls, is hoping to shake up the race and mitigate political risk. Donald Trump, already lowering expectations for his rival, is eager for onstage clashes.
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Want to watch every NFL game on TV this season? Bring your wallet
With the continued growth of streaming services, making everything from live sports to original programming available at a click of a button, it is a good time to be a sports fan.
Albeit a pricey one.
The NFL is set to unveil their full 2024 schedule later tonight, but we already know a few features regarding the upcoming schedule.
Including a number of games that will be exclusive to...
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Koepka explained how important his mindset is when it comes to the PGA Championship and other majors.
Brooks Koepka, the reigning PGA Championship winner, brings a distinct strategy to major tournaments, setting him apart from his peers.
His focus hits another level, and he transforms into someone else.
No wonder he has the nickname ‘Major Brooks.’
“My demeanor and focus are just different. I can’t explain it,” Koepka said Wednesday at...
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Netflix’s expansion into an ad-supported model seems to be a hit. Today, at its 2024 upfront presentation, the streamer said that it now has 40 million monthly users on its ad-supported tier globally. That’s up from 23 million earlier in the year; it took six months for the option to hit 5 million users after it launched in 2022. As of April, the service had a total of 270 million subscribers across all tiers. Netflix also said that, in...
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3 Body Problem is getting a second season. Netflix announced the news that its adaptation of Cixin Liu’s award-winning sci-fi trilogy is getting more episodes, with David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, and Alexander Woo returning as executive producers and writers.
3 Body Problem follows a group of scientists as they struggle with the realization that humanity isn’t the only species in the universe and that its nearest neighbors are far more technologically advanced and very...
ChatGPT, OpenAI's blockbuster generative AI application, has recently received a significant upgrade with the introduction of the new GPT-4o model unveiled at OpenAI's "Spring Update" event. GPT-4o is a multi-modal model, advertised as able to use logic not just in the generation of text, but with audio inputs and outputs, and by receiving live video — all in real time. And while the reveal wasn't a search engine as was rumored in the weeks leading up to the announcement, the...
This week, King Charles unveiled a new portrait of himself by the acclaimed painter Jonathan Yeo at Buckingham Palace.
Reactions to the very red, very raw-looking piece have been mixed. Many on social media note that the portrait is both intriguing and unflattering. Here's what people are saying about the art online.
SEE ALSO: Media agencies pulled a 'manipulated' photo of Kate Middleton. Here's what happened. Portrait of a colonizerThe British...
It's purple, and not for the reason I assumed.
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The Senate Rules Committee passed three bills that aim to safeguard elections from deception by artificial intelligence, with just months to go before Election Day. The bills would still need to advance in the House and pass the full Senate to become law, creating a time crunch for rules around election-related deepfakes to take effect before polls open across the country in November.
The vote happened on the same day that Senate Majority Leader...
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Another emulator with tons of history and development, RetroArch, is now freely available on the iOS App Store today. This is great news for retro gaming fans with iPhones because it can emulate a truly eye-crossing number of retro consoles once installed.
In fact, there are too many to list here. But some notable emulation cores — the actual separately developed emulation software — included in this version of RetroArch are the NEC PC Engine,...
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It’s the PlayStation Portable’s turn to get an emulator on the iOS App Store thanks to PPSSPP, which just went live today. This emulator, from developer Henrik Rydgård, has been in development for more than a decade, and it’s free to download for the iPhone and iPad.
Rydgård says in a blog post that the version approved this morning has some limitations versus previous builds of the app that were available through various exploits and workarounds. The...
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Both F1 and the sport’s governing body are working together on a new vision, but what could that entail?
Formula 1 is having a moment.
In recent years the sport has seen tremendous growth, particularly in the United States. Thanks to interest generated by the Netflix docuseries “Drive to Survive,” a thrilling Drivers’ Championship fight between Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton in 2021 that came down to the final laps of the...
Rory McIlroy during a Wednesday practice round ahead of the 2024 PGA Championship. | Photo by David Cannon/Getty Images
Rory McIlroy addressed Jimmy Dunne’s resignation from the PGA Tour Policy Board ahead of the PGA Championship.
Jimmy Dunne, one of the masterminds behind the PGA Tour’s framework agreement with the Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF), resigned earlier this week.
As a result, Rory McIlroy believes that the future of professional golf will suffer.
“Honestly, I...
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Ludvig Åberg opened up about his recent knee injury but remained confident ahead of his first PGA Championship.
Ludvig Åberg did not compete in the Wells Fargo Championship last week because of a knee injury. This generated plenty of concern, given his impressive performances leading up to the sixth Signature Event of the season.
However, the sixth-ranked golfer in the world is ready to go...
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HBO has released a first look at The Last of Us Season 2. The two new photos (below) show how Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) have adjusted to life in the aftermath of the Season 1 finale.
The first season of the celebrated zombie-centered series ended with Joel bringing Ellie to the Fireflies in hopes that her immunity to the Cordyceps fungus could help make a cure. However, he learned that creating a cure would require Ellie's death. Not willing to sacrifice his surrogate...
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