At 70-Years-Old, This Prestigious EVE Online Player Is "Rebelling" Against Gaming Stereotypes

At 70-Years-Old, This Prestigious EVE Online Player Is "Rebelling" Against Gaming Stereotypes

Beneath the cold, hard exterior of EVE Online lies plenty of stories from players that will warm your heart. Recently, I became aware of Arrowspeed Bounty, also known as Jennifer--a 70-year-old veteran player who has risen through the game’s political ranks to hold an important position on the Council of Stellar Management, or CSM . Arrowspeed Bounty was first introduced to EVE Online thanks to some of her gaming friends. After playing the tutorial, she began to join those friends in mining activities but noted that it was "still trial and error" in the early days, especially when figuring out the game’s currency and how to mitigate losing ships. "While it wasn’t the end of the world when that happened, it was still disheartening as the real mission was flying to different places to find the specific parts needed to replace them," she notes. After finding her feet in EVE Online, Arrowspeed Bounty joined a small corporation--a community similar to a guild or a clan that allows for collaborative play and contribution to large goals or advanced content. However, greater collaboration doesn't always make for an easier experience, and Arrowspeed Bounty was quickly forced to learn a new part of EVE Online: Decorum. "As a newcomer to the game, it was expected that I’d learn about undocumented and social protocols by breaking them myself--accidentally, of course," Continue Reading at GameSpot

Here’s your first look at Kratos and Atreus in Amazon’s upcoming God of War TV adaptation

Here’s your first look at Kratos and Atreus in Amazon’s upcoming God of War TV adaptation

With the likes of The Last of Us and Fallout out of the way for a bit, Amazon has seized its opportunity to put the spotlight on the next big video game adaptation, its currently-in-production God of War show. Today we got our first look at Ryan Hurst and Callum Vinson as Kratos and Atreus. The image released by Amazon shows the eponymous God of War standing next to a tree as he watches his son — who notably looks a bit younger than the video game version of 11-year-old Atreus we first met in 2018’s God of War — take aim with his bow. Exactly what they’re hunting is unclear, but we know that the developing relationship between father and son that was such a big part of the PS4 game is also going to be at the heart of the show. Whether Sony Pictures Television and Amazon MGM Studios have nailed the looks of its central characters is a matter of opinion. Personally I think Hurst’s Kratos in particular looks a little bit off here, but there’s every chance it all comes together later in production. Or when we first hear him angrily exclaim "boy!" The Sons of Anarchy star was cast as Kratos back in January, and earlier this week we learned that Deadpool ’s Ed Skrein will play Baldur in the Amazon show. The rest of the cast includes Mandy Patinkin as Odin, Max Parker and Heimfall, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson as Thor, Teresa Palmer as Sif, Alastair Duncan as Mimir, Jeff Gulka as Sindri and Danny Woodburn as Brok. No release date has been announced yet, but a second season of God of War has already been confirmed. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/streaming/heres-your-first-look-at-kratos-and-atreus-in-amazons-upcoming-god-of-war-tv-adaptation-172251366.html?src=rss

India-based Ultrahuman launches the $479 Ring Pro, available for pre-order globally, excluding the US, after the ITC ruled in favor of Oura in a patent dispute (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

India-based Ultrahuman launches the $479 Ring Pro, available for pre-order globally, excluding the US, after the ITC ruled in favor of Oura in a patent dispute (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch : India-based Ultrahuman launches the $479 Ring Pro, available for pre-order globally, excluding the US, after the ITC ruled in favor of Oura in a patent dispute —  Ultrahuman on Friday unveiled a new smart ring with longer battery life and a redesigned form factor, as the Bengaluru-based wearable maker seeks …

OpenAI secures another $110 billion in funding from Amazon, NVIDIA and SoftBank

OpenAI secures another $110 billion in funding from Amazon, NVIDIA and SoftBank

OpenAI just announced a massive funding round of $110 billion , which is one of the biggest investment rounds in Silicon Valley history. The investors feature many of the usual suspects, including Amazon with $50 billion, NVIDIA with $30 billion and SoftBank with $30 billion. This investment brings OpenAI to a $730 billion valuation "We’re super excited about this deal," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told CNBC . "AI is going to happen everywhere." That last statement seems more like a threat than a boast, but I digress. Beyond the funding round, OpenAI has announced strategic partnerships with both NVIDIA and Amazon. This will involve Amazon Web Services (AWS) running OpenAI models for enterprise customers to "build generative AI applications and agents at production scale." It also names AWS as the exclusive third-party cloud distribution provider for OpenAI Frontier, which is an agentic enterprise platform. OpenAI has also committed to consuming 2 gigawatts of Amazon's Trainium capacity, which is the company's custom-designed AI training accelerator. In other words, Amazon is spending a lot of money on OpenAI and then OpenAI will turn around and spend a lot of money with Amazon. The AI funding ouroboros continues . It's also worth noting that Amazon's investment in OpenAI will be staggered. The funding begins with $15 billion, but the remaining $35 billion will only be invested when certain conditions are met. Oddly, it's been reported that one condition is that OpenAI achieves artificial general intelligence . AGI is when AI evolves to or beyond human-level abilities, at which point the entire world turns into rainbows and everyone gets a pony. This could happen later this year, according to those bullish on the technology , or never, according to many researchers . Sam Altman said it was coming in 2025 but has since grown weary of the term . The new partnership with NVIDIA evolves the long-standing collaboration between the two companies . OpenAI has pledged to consume 2 gigawatts of training capacity on NVIDIA's Vera Rubin systems and an additional 3 gigawatts of computing resources, likely in the form of GPUs, to run specific AI inference tasks. In other words, NVIDIA is spending a lot of money on OpenAI and then OpenAI will turn around and spend a lot of money with NVIDIA. The ouroboros must feed . As for revenue, OpenAI has forecast a massive loss of $14 billion in 2026. It lost around $5 billion in 2024 and reports estimate a loss of $8 billion in 2025 . Despite this trajectory, the company claims it'll be raking in $100 billion in revenue by 2029 . This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ai/openai-secures-another-110-billion-in-funding-from-amazon-nvidia-and-softbank-171006356.html?src=rss