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Two of the biggest winners over the past year — chipmaker Nvidia and pharmaceutical drug maker Novo Nordisk — are joining forces to set up one the world’s most advanced AI supercomputers in Denmark.  Named Gefion, after the Norse goddess of ploughing and abundance, and built by Atos Group subsidiary Eviden, it will be based on the Nvidia DGX SuperPod architecture. Gefion will feature over 1,500 of

NVIDIA has been working on adding generative AI to non-playable characters (NPCs) for a while now. The company is hoping a newly-announced partnership with Ubisoft will accelerate development of this technology and, ultimately, bring these AI-driven NPCs to modern games.

Ubisoft helped build new "NEO NPCs" by using NVIDIA’s Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE) technology, with an assist from dynamic NPC

For the past three months, ever since I spoke to the AI NPCs in Nvidia’s cyberpunk ramen shop, I’ve been wondering: Which game developer will take a flying leap on this controversial and intriguing tech? If you said “Ubisoft,”

The Backbone One phone controller is getting an update, and this time, it’s compatible with more phone cases.

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The speed in which automakers will have to phase out their gas-powered vehicles in favor of ones that are all-electric will be determined Wednesday, when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to release its new vehicle emissions rules.

Environmental groups are hoping for a sped-up timeline that will put the country

All of Disney Plus’ Star Wars spinoff series have been focused on Jedi and other heroes aligned with the light side of the Force. But the first trailer for The Acolyte from executive producer Leslye Headland is a reminder that, in order for there to be true balance, sometimes darkness has to win.

Set in Star Wars’ High Republic era long before the events of The Phantom Menace, The

• The openVertebrate Project, a.k.a oVert, CT scanned the innards of over 13,000 museum specimens.
• Their newly published images let you see inside lizards, birds, rodents, and more.
• Over the next four

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The Dark Side rises in the first trailer for new Star Wars series The Acolyte.

Created by Russian Doll's Leslye Headland, The Acolyte marks our first live-action introduction to the High Republic Era — a time of peace 100 years before the Star Wars prequels take place. However, that peace is under attack by dark forces, ones which leave dead Jedi in their wake. A respected Jedi Master (Squid Game'

• Delinquent assets are taking over investment products that bundle risky commercial real estate debt, Bloomberg reported.
• Collaterlized loan obligation distress rates surged 440% in 12 months ahead of January, a report said.
• Issuers are extending maturities and buying back delinquent loans.

Investment products that cobble together risky commercial-real-estate debt are

• Facebook's Poke feature has been largely hidden for the last few years, but it's coming back.
• Meta says Pokes surged after it quietly resurfaced the Poke button.
• It's the perfect low-touch way to reach out to someone. 

Facebook is bringing back the Poke, and apparently, Gen Z is loving it.

Technically, the Poke never fully left, it was just hidden deep, deep, deep