Forcing AI agents to wrestle led them to learn skills like balancing—and deceiving opponents.
Source: Wired
Google has made it even easier to turn on your TV with your voice. All you’ll need is a Chromecast.
Source: CNET
Nintendo has unveiled the newest trailer for Super Mario Odyssey, which reimagines the game as a dance number set in New Donk City.
Source: CNET
Today, TechCrunch is down in San Jose, Calif. for the Oculus Connect 4 keynote, where Facebook’s troublesome VR company is expected to maybe introduce some new products and definitely wax poetic on the future of VR and why they’re sure it’s not dead.
This is year #4 for the conference and it’s the only one so far that hasn’t preceded an imminent hardware release. Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Top streaming media device maker Roku announced in September it was launching its own channel featuring free movies and TV shows, including those it licensed itself and those aggregated from other channels across its platform. However, the channel was not immediately available to all Roku customers, as it was a phased rollout. That rollout has now completed, the company says this morning.… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
It’s almost Halloween, why aren’t you spooked yet?
Source: Wired
We review men’s “stylers,” a hybrid mini-trimmer for shaving in tough spots.
Source: Wired
Turns out, superheroes don’t just illustrate physics—they *do* physics, too!
Source: Wired
A crop of new shows re-tell the cultural myth that that the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.
Source: Wired
The U.S. Department of Justice’s deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, gave a speech on encryption yesterday and boy was it a snoozer. It’s almost as if all those decades of crypto wars never happened. Read More
Source: TechCrunch