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Activist investor Oasis Management Company has acquired a 8.86% in Japanese media powerhouse Kadokawa, parent company of ...

Sony Takes Aim at Studio Ghibli AI Slop, Developing Tool to Stop Copyright Infringing Content and Compensate Original Creators

Sony has trained a "Protective AI" model on content from Studio Ghibli films in order to create a tool that knows to avoid ...
AV Club

Library of Congress finds cinema's previously lost "first robot"

The legacy of the robot in film is a long and storied one, whether we’re considering such synthetic cinematic luminaries as Andy Kaufman’s character Val in 1981 comedy Heartbeeps, or Bernadette Peters ...
GameSpot

Helldivers 2's Invasion Of A Super-Tough, Socialist-Loving World Isn't Going Well

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Helldivers 2's Machinery of Oppression update is tasking Super Earth's finest with conquering the "dark heart of socialism" and so far, things are not ...
Shacknews

The Automatons have taken over Helldivers 2 socials to try to make humans feel bad

Something odd is happening with the Helldivers 2 social media this week. It would seem the Automatons (an enemy faction of murderous robots in the game) have taken over the comms and are filling it ...
PC Gamer

Automatons speak! Helldivers 2 nemesis hacks Super Earth channels in desperate plea to save Cyberstan: 'WE HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED FREEDOM'

Third Person Shooter The Cyborgs are coming back to Helldivers 2—and they're bringing 3 new units armed to the teeth with advanced technology, and also robo-roundhouse kicks Third Person Shooter ...
siliconera

NieR: Automata Now Backward Compatible With Switch 2

Square Enix didn’t get into the exact changes and issues that came up in this new patch. The update on the product page now appears immediately after the screenshots and pricing. The initial summary ...
The New York Times

Louvre Exhibits a New Vacheron Constantin Astronomical Clock

The 3.5-foot timepiece, which includes an automaton, is on loan to the Paris museum until November. By Nazanin Lankarani Reporting from Paris Ancient water clocks, the astronomical devices of the ...
Game Rant

Botdivers Rejoice—Helldivers 2’s New Major Order Just Made Two Enemies Even Scarier

Jared is a writer, editor, and Communications Studies graduate who loves popular nerd culture (almost anything to do with Marvel, DC, Star Wars, or The Lord of the Rings) and the interactive ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Dolgov, V. and Melnikov, B. (2014) Construction of Universal Finite Automaton. II. Examples of Algorithms Functioning. Bulletin of the Voronezh State University. Series ...

ABSTRACT: The paper continues the research on algorithms for generating nondeterministic finite automata possessing the following property (the so-called walibad property): among their covering ...
The Economist

Watch out, Elon Musk. Chinese robots are coming

AND THEY’RE off! Well, some of them. One weak-kneed participant collapsed before the starting line. Another did so a few steps later. A third quickly ran into a railing. Still, the remaining 18 ...