Afro-textured hair in animation has long been oversimplified, but new algorithms now capture its true form

We chat to the man behind Thumb Soldiers, an outfit allowing players with disabilities to get better control of thumbsticks.

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Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.

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Musk has repeatedly accused people who post the names of his DOGE associates on X of breaking the law (to be clear: doing so absolutely is not a crime). He made a similar claim in response to the screenshots from r/WhitePeopleTwitter posted by Reddit Lies, saying “they have broken the law.” Engadget was unable to verify the Reddit comments posted by the account, but it included statements like “time to hunt” and “this nazi stooge needs to be shot.”

Treyarch co-founder Peter Akemann - who more recently served as president of Skydance Interactive - has pleaded guilty …

Sphene thematically reflects previous antagonists, but the additional context of the setting’s gender roles (and the player’s own presumed awareness of gendered roles in real history) reframe her character and refresh the villain formula.

Researchers have been archiving government websites for months.

"Those who mimic the Nazi salute, even as a joke or an attempt to troll their opponents, trivialize the horror of the Holocaust," said the Anglican Catholic Church.

The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

One of Neil Gaiman’s publishers has dropped him as the British author faces multiple allegations of sexual assault and harassment.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 isn't out until next month, but some would-be players are already mad about its apparent representation of history.

As age verification bills pass across the world under the guise of “keeping children safe online,” governments are increasingly giving themselves the authority to decide what topics are deemed “safe” for young people to access, and forcing online services to remove and block anything that may be deemed “unsafe.”

Over 100 developers of Candy Crush at King's Stockholm office formed a union club last October.

Nintendo has been nominated at this year's GLAAD award for trans representation in last year's Paper Mario: The Thousan…

Koei Tecmo knows about those pictures of Dead or Alive's fighters, and isn't happy about them.

A Utah-based startup has graced us with an AI-powered Anne Frank chatbot, and it's very eager to forgive and forget.

The settlement was announced Friday

A service for creating AI-generated nude images of real people is running circles around Meta’s moderation efforts.

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Butler’s “Darwin among the machines” warned of a future mechanical race that could subjugate humanity.

Hi. Today we're looking at AI-generated images, why they look like that, why fascists love them, and how corporations want to use them to cheapen the valuable work of creatives.