Overrun

Deer Creek Golf Course is dying. Where once lay verdant fairways, the 18-hole course near Jefferson County’s Ken Caryl Ranch community is now largely weeds, cattails and long grasses. Nature, inexorably, reclaims its own. No one has played a legitimate round of golf here in three years. The clubhouse sits empty and forlorn, with a four-tiered fountain at its entry now dry and defunct. And though Deer Creek Golf Course claims on its website that it is merely “closed for renovation” and looks forward “to serving you in the…

ChatGPT and the artificial intelligence revolution may — or may not — change everything everywhere all at once about the film and TV industry But here’s one thing that didn’t happen: The world didn’t end. Despite James Cameron’s prediction in his 1984 sci-fi classic “The Terminator,” the evil artificial intelligence known as Skynet didn’t gain self-awareness on that date at precisely 2:14 a.m. It didn’t launch thousands of nuclear weapons and annihilate most of the human race. And it most certainly didn’t send a…

Super-powered AI humans risk being overrun by artificial superintelligence in 30 years While AI experts don’t concur on many things, they all accord on one thing AI and ML technology is going to have gigantic effects on society and business. Google CEO Sundar Pichai comments artificial intelligence is “one of the overriding things humanities is working on,” and is more profound than our development of electricity or fire. AI is when we provide machines (software and hardware) with human-like abilities.…

Platinium Trophies used to mean something The PlayStation Store has been cluttered with extremely bizarre and lackluster games for a while now. However, what was bad just seems to be getting worse. A handful of indie developers are gaming the system by re-releasing essentially the same game over and over — offering a new Platinum trophy with every “game.” These titles provide nothing of value and only seem to dampen everything around them. Games like The Jumping Fries, The Jumping Fries Turbo, and dozens more like it are…

The study found that many native plants are being displaced by invasive species that have been brought to the United States during the last century.A recent plant survey discovered that numerous invasive non-native species are prospering in Ohio.Invasive species that have been introduced to the United States over the last century are displacing numerous native plants, according to a recent botanical assessment of southwest Ohio.In order to determine how the Queen City’s plant diversity has altered over the last two…

Facebook Gaming was supposed to be the social media giant's answer to Amazon.com Inc.'s Twitch — a place to watch people play video games. Four years after its promising launch, the service has turned into an eerie digital ghost town where some of the most-watched accounts aren't even gamers, some of the top live streams aren't even live, and a large portion of the real gamers' video views have disappeared. The typical fare on a game-streaming site involves a player narrating as they play. But on a recent February…