Texas is replacing thousands of human exam scorers with AI
AI-graded tests could save the state as much as $20 million per year
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A sealed retail version of Castlevania from 1987 sold for a bargain price of $90,000
Hardcore collectors say it could be worth up to $250,000
The US government has a new plan for slashing greenhouse emissions from buildings
Setting some rather ambitious goals to knock greenhouse gases down and improve efficiency
Modder builds a handheld PlayStation console out of a rare PS1 controller
It can play retro classics like Mega Man 8, Resident Evil Survivor and The Contra Adventure
How Sam Altman became a billionaire without equity in OpenAI
It turns out that when he's not working his day job, Sam Altman is a pretty savvy investor
Microsoft issues warning on China's use of generative AI to disrupt US elections
China-based and Beijing-backed groups are becoming more sophisticated
"Stop Killing Games" is a new campaign to prevent publishers from taking their titles offline
Finally somebody is taking on the big bad publishers
Survey reveals 41% of executives expect AI will shrink workforce sizes
Not very collaborative on AI's part
Former White House CIO warns the tech industry should prepare for a TikTok ban
China could retaliate by placing demands on Apple
Another Matrix movie is in the works with a new writer-director
Drew Goddard (The Cabin in the Woods, The Martian) will be writing and directing
FTC denies rating board's suggestion for age verification system
Editor's take: The ESRB has one job: rate games by maturity level based on content. So why did it involve itself in a proposal to add a new age verification system for parents to use to provide consent for data collection on their children? All that did was confuse the public about what facial age estimation is and how it would be used, leading to it getting shot down by the FTC.
California considers "right to disconnect" bill to prevent bosses contacting workers out of hours
Californians could soon have a better work-life balance
FPS and your eyes: Some people can process visual information faster than others
Seeing more frames per second
US prison system proposes total social media ban for inmates, sparking First Amendment concerns
Activists call the proposal "archaic and so inhumane"
Nvidia's Xbox takeover and Cyberpunk's retro twist highlight April Fools' Day fun
April Fools' shenanigans
Boldly go: William Shatner is heading to Antarctica, and you can join him
A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity
Russia slams HP for closing local website, claims world is boycotting the company
In compliance with US-mandated sanctions
IEEE will no longer accept Playboy's "Lenna" image for image processing research
A hot potato: Simply known as "Lenna," the test image was scanned by Alexander Sawchuk at the University of Southern California's Signal and Image Processing Institute in 1973. It's been used in research papers about image processing since then, but now the time has come to retire this piece of fortuitous standard in digital beauty.
Despite increasing to $16.8 million, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger's compensation still pales in comparison to AMD's Lisa Su
Expect Jensen Huang to be the top earner
Hulu content is now available on the Disney+ app in the US
The "Hulu on Disney+" beta test started last year