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In such a fantastic year for video games, plenty of titles go under the radar. Those games become hidden gems, and this month, Loddlenaut is one of the best ones you can find. It launched on November 16 to little fanfare, and that’s a shame. I enjoyed its Steam Next Fest demo a couple of months ago, and having now played the following game following its launch, it has become one of my favorite indies of the year. In Loddlenaut, players control an interstellar janitor who comes to the ocean planet of GUP-14 to clean…

Prologue I'm stating the obvious here. ChatGPT, released just eight weeks ago, has taken the whole world by storm.  Microsoft is rumored to have invested $10B in it, and Sathya Nadella expects this to transform every Microsoft Product. Eventually, this should even come to SQL Server, the product I used to ship to Microsoft in the 90s. SQL itself is entering its 50th year and has continuously evolved to reign over all languages. Can SQL do ChatGPT? Let’s see. Examples here are from Couchbase. Couchbase has SQL for JSON,…

NIGO has made a lot of friends throughout his historic career in music and fashion, and those connections have culminated with I Know NIGO—a collaborative album that reflects the multi-hyphenate’s elite ear and strong relationships. Those friendships were on full display at ComplexCon on Sunday night as NIGO, Teriyaki Boyz, the Clipse, Lil Uzi Vert, Kodak Black, and Ski Mask the Slump God graced the stage together to perform some of Nigo’s album (and some of their own essentials) live for the first time. “We’re trying to…

When Robert Curl was 9 years old, his parents gave him a chemistry set for Christmas. Though his mother was upset when nitric acid spilled on the family stove, he had found a calling. The gift led to a 64-year career as a researcher and professor at Rice University, where in 1985 he happened to be available to help when a group of scientists performed a series of experiments using lasers to vaporize graphite, a form of carbon. They discovered that the…