KENNEDY: The goblin army - that shuffled through the rank gossip swamps of bad jokes, hot takes and nonsense about body doubles and sanatoriums - has been silenced.
How confident are you in your judgments and how well can you defend your opinions? Chances are that they will change under the influence of a group of avatars in a virtual environment. Scientists from SWPS University have investigated the human tendency to be influenced by the opinions of others, including virtual characters.
Benedetto Vigna told reporters that a Ferrari EV won’t be silent like a mainstream electric car
SUE REID: Thiyepo is among hundreds of Botswanans who have been injured by elephants as growing numbers mean they increasingly come into conflict with humans.
Right after the recent Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 2 update, Epic Games is launching a new revision, rolling out the battle royale downtime, a bittersweet necessary evil. While the fans are busy unloading their fury on X (formerly Twitter), their frowns may soon turn upside down, seeing what the campy game has in store for them. The 29.01 update kicked off at 4 am ET and is reportedly devoted to bringing back Midas.Epic Games confirmed the Fortnite server downtime in an X post shared beforehand....
There are many philosophical questions that will continue to be asked until the end of time. What is love? Why is the sky blue? Why is Easter synonymous with eggs and bunnies when the latter don’t even lay eggs? And will there ever be a more popular Easter candy than Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs? Time explains Easter eggs and the Easter bunny have separate roots. The eggs have a religious origin, as Christians were at one point forbidden from consuming eggs during Lent; the eggs that couldn’t be...
Conversing with your computer has been a dream of futurists and technologists for decades. When you look at 2004’s state of the art, it’s staggering to see how far we’ve come. There are now billions of devices in our hands, and homes that listen to our queries and do their very best to answer them. But for all of the time, money and effort, chatbots of any stripe have not swallowed the world as their creators intended. They’re miraculous. They’re also boring. And it’s worth asking why. Chatbot...
Wiig’s smash-hit 2011 comedy movie will never go the ‘Hangover’ route, thankfully
Mr. May’s conjecture on what and how the head of Hamas was thinking when planning the Oct. 7 outrage ignores history (“Israelis will fight Hamas on their own if they must,” Web, March 26).
The Senate should reject the Greens' divestiture legislation to break up Australian businesses because it could make the cost-of-living crisis worse
What makes people want to stay in the communities they live in? Cheap Insurance explores many possibilities like community strength, natural beauty and thriving economies.
Watch the moment the winner of Celebrity Big Brother is crowned. Five stars started the final day in the house before Louis Walsh and Fern Britton were voted in fourth and fifth place respectively. Coronation Street actor Colson Smith was then announced in third place, leaving David Potts and Nikita Kuzmin battling for the crown on Friday evening (22 March). After more than 3.5 million votes, hosts AJ Odudu and Will Best announced the results, with David pipping Nikita to first place. “Don’t...