Charlamagne tha God on Black voters and Biden
A New York Times/Siena poll last month showed that 23 percent of registered Black voters polled said if the election was held that day, they’d vote for Donald Trump. Considering Trump only won 8 percent of Black voters in 2020, that would be a big deal. Black voters historically overwhelmingly vote for Democrats, and in […]
Kaedim raises $15M to fund AI-based 3D asset creation solutions
Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here. Kaedim, which offers tools to streamline 3D asset content creation, announced it has raised $15 million in its seed funding round. The startup recently launched a new AI-powered marketplace of 10,000 pre-generated […]
Department of Homeland Security is scouring gaming communities for ‘extremist content’
The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are working with gaming community platforms to track ‘extremist content’.” Thanks to a new government report from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO), it’s been revealed that the FBI and the DHS are working with gaming companies like Roblox, Discord, Reddit, and others. These platforms share […]
Researchers resurrect long-extinct fossil creature as a robot
Until now, when scientists and engineers have developed soft robots inspired by organisms, they’ve focused on modern-day living examples. For instance, we previously reported on soft robot applications that mimicked squid, grasshoppers, and cheetahs. For the first time, however, a team of researchers has now combined the principles of soft robotics and paleontology to build […]
LLMs become more covertly racist with human intervention
Even when the two sentences had the same meaning, the models were more likely to apply adjectives like “dirty,” “lazy,” and “stupid” to speakers of AAE than speakers of Standard American English (SAE). The models associated speakers of AAE with less prestigious jobs (or didn’t associate them with having a job at all), and when […]
After losing access to Twitter’s API, Block Party pivots to privacy
Block Party, a startup developed by software engineer and tech diversity advocate Tracy Chou, was among the victims of Twitter’s (now X’s) API changes earlier this year, forcing it to pivot its business. At the SXSW conference in Austin this weekend, Chou presented a glimpse of what Block Party is now up to with its […]
Teens say parents are distracted by screens, too
Teenagers and parents battle over lot: Curfews, clothing choices, grades, partying. One topic that seems to vex most modern families is technology and the use of smartphones. It’s not just teens struggling with too much screen time — their parents are also attached to their devices. Almost half of teenagers say their parents at least […]