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Google has some major plans for 2024, and is gearing up to release one of the most powerful AI models to have ever existed. Google also plans to take on Meta and OpenAI and their AI solutions this year Google believes 2024…

Nvidia Corp. investors gave a cool reaction to its latest quarterly report, which blew past average analysts' estimates but failed to satisfy the loftier expectations of shareholders who have bet heavily on an artificial intelligence boom. Revenue in the current period will be about $20 billion, the world's most valuable chipmaker said Tuesday in a statement. Though that topped the average Wall Street prediction of $17.9 billion, some projections reached as high as $21 billion. The shares fell 3% to $484.42 in New York…

Updated Nov. 5, 2023 3:35 pm ETElon Musk’s artificial-intelligence startup showed off its first product: a bot named Grok whose sense of humor the billionaire demonstrated with jokes about Sam Bankman-Fried and how to make cocaine.Musk, in a series of social-media posts over the weekend, included those sample responses from Grok as he boasted that it has both a love of sarcasm and the advantage of access to real-time information via X, the platform formerly known as Twitter that he bought just over a year ago.Copyright ©…

Bandai Namco Entertainment I don’t envy the position FromSoftware is in with Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon. It’s the first title since the release of Elden Ring, a monumental, critically acclaimed title considered one of the studio’s best. It’s also reviving a series that hasn’t been seen in a decade for modern platforms and game audiences. On top of those things, because this isn’t a Souls game, a microscope will be on the title as FromSoftware fans scrutinize if it’s as good as other games, while Souls haters…

The movie-length course, distributed by MasterClass, starts out invitingly enough. Tao exudes calm and confidence. A mathematical mindset, he says, makes “the complex world a bit more manageable.” He suggests that his class might be “even more suitable for those without formal math training.” But very soon, the futility of this attempt to pierce the mystique of mathematics becomes inescapable.  For most of the session, Tao is seated in a white armchair; there are no blackboards, no pens, no paper. “Mathematics is a…

Image via Marvel Studios Since the early days of the MCU, there’s always been one actor who stands out as the heart and soul of the franchise. First came Robert Downey Jr., then Tom Holland, and now, fans are convinced that Iman Vellani is in that same category after watching The Marvels trailer. The trailer dropped yesterday and gave us a glimpse of the cosmic chaos that we’ll finally get to see after the movie was delayed a couple of months back. From the brief trailer, we’re shown the new new S.H.I.E.L.D…

Joshua Heier isn’t your typical homebuyer. Recently, rather than purchasing an entire property by himself, he has started buying fractions of single-family homes around the country, many of them in Sun Belt states. “I think it’s kind of a stepping stone toward actually buying and owning a full rental property,” says Heier, a 30-year-old investor in California who is using Arrived Homes, one of a spate of new “fractional” real estate investment platforms. It allows him a peek at the ins and outs of what it might cost…

In case anyone asks, 2022 was all about energy — natural gas, oil, renewables, all of it. Natural gas prices surged early as Vladimir Putin’s poorly thought-out decision to invade Ukraine slashed gas deliveries to Europe. That, coupled with high oil prices, substantially contributed to near-record-setting inflation that forced central bankers to raise interest rates. That inflation helped spur the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, which contains several provisions to boost renewable power,…

The borders between prog and metal have always been porous, as Massachusetts-formed (and now Berlin-based) quartet Elder clearly understand. They began their own migration from craggy, red-eyed stoner-rock to proggy nirvana with 2015’s latently sophisticated Lore. Their sixth album, Innate Passage, strikes their most polished and satisfying balance yet between ground-shaking heaviness and lofty ambition.The magic of Innate Passage lies in how lightly the group wear their instrumental mastery. There’s precious little…

The modern days are here, and in a surprising turn of events, it seems like the imminent success of a project like Avatar: The Way of Water can be timed and measured using unorthodox methods. No, we’re not talking about reviews or the Rotten Tomatoes score but an even more obscure yet more reliable measuring system: fanfiction. Create a piece of media, and fans will write stories about it: this is a tale as old as time. Fanfiction has been around since the primordial times of the entertainment fanatic system, leading…