reader comments 35 with 27 posters participating Share this story [embedded content] This video shows sample hands from Pluribus’ experiment against professional poker players. Cards are turned face up to make it easier to see Pluribus’ strategy. Courtesy of Carnegie-Mellon University. Poker-playing AIs typically perform well against human opponents when the play is limited to ..
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Enlarge / Coming October 25. And today, we know more about one cool, new multiplayer twist to the series. Activision / Infinity Ward reader comments 21 with 17 posters participating, including story author Share this story LOS ANGELES—This spring, I visited game studio Infinity Ward to learn about its upcoming “reimagining” of Call of Duty: ..
Enlarge / The new recommendation engine is part of a new experimental Steam Labs branding. reader comments 64 with 43 posters participating Share this story For years now, Valve has been testing new approaches to filter the glut of Steam games down to the ones in which individual users are most likely to show an ..
reader comments 7 with 7 posters participating Share this story Walter Schirra in Command Module on Apollo 7. NASA/National Archives and Records Administration View of Earth as seen from Moon taken on Apollo 8. NASA/National Archives and Records Administration David Scott performing side hatch EVA during Apollo 9. View of the Moon as seen from ..
reader comments 59 with 43 posters participating Share this story [embedded content] Yifeu Lu stars in the title role of Mulan, Disney’s live action remake of its 1998 animated film. Disney has dropped a teaser for its forthcoming film, Mulan, giving us our first real look at the studio’s live action remake of the classic 1998 ..
reader comments 20 with 19 posters participating Share this story Inside this concrete slab hides the biggest collection of the rarest pinball and electromechanical games ever made. Sam Machkovech This was taken by standing on a chair in one corner of the venue. You can get a sense of the machine variety here: mostly pinball ..
Enlarge / Bass guitarist Mark Sandman and saxophonist Dana Colley in concert with their band Morphine in the ’90s. reader comments 18 with 18 posters participating, including story author Share this story I’m a firm believer in the power of a live performance. A television broadcast or DVD doesn’t capture the same thing as a ..
reader comments 25 with 23 posters participating Share this story Before his resignation in late 2017, Uber’s then-CEO Travis Kalanick faced more than his fair share of scandals. But by far the most (read: least) important of these was Kalanick’s oft–repeated claim that, at one point, he “held the world’s second-highest score for the Nintendo ..
reader comments 15 with 10 posters participating, including story author Share this story Since this is a cocktail conference, every seminar needs a tasting. This riff on an Old Fashioned was inspired by Comet Lovejoy, “which is effectively a massive Old Fashioned—alcohol and sugar—slinging itself along the universe,” said bartender Tristan Stephenson. Nathan Mattise The ..
reader comments 63 with 44 posters participating Share this story Coming into 2019, it felt like pop culture only had two things on its mind: the final season of Game of Thrones and the final chapter in Marvel’s Avengers saga. Looking back from the half-way point in the year, hey, at least one of those delivered. Of course, pop ..
