Google Playground Lets You Create Games Using Simple Text Prompts

Google Labs launches Playground, an experimental platform that lets you build, play, and share custom browser games using ...
Decrypt

Google Lets You Build a Video Game by Typing a Description

Google's Playground turns a typed description into a playable, shareable game, no coding required. It's live now to try out.
Hackaday

A New Type Of LLM On The Block: Decision-Making Models

Large language models (LLMs) output language, but they are commonly tasked with making a decision or classification of some ...
InfoWorld

Java 28 starts to take shape

Plans for JDK 28 include value objects, generational garbage collection, strict field initialization, a simple JSON API, and PEM encodings of cryptographic objects. Ahead-of-time code compilation has ...
Complex

Netflix’s ‘A Different World’ Reveals What Happened to Halle Berry’s Character 35 Years Later

Photo by Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images Netflix’s 'A Different World' Sequel Trailer Brings Hillman Back to Class The Hillman legacy is back: meet Whitley and Dwayne’s daughter, ...
gizmodo

Say Hello to the ‘Fire Amoeba.’ It Just Broke a Heat Limit Scientists Thought Was Impossible

Life finds a way—even in some of the most inhospitable environments on Earth. Scientists have just discovered a species of amoeba that can endure hot temperatures previously thought impossible for any ...
PC World

I write about AI for a living. Lately, I don’t know what to tell people

First they forced AI down our throats, now they’re saying it might literally kill us. And the solution always circles back to more AI. There’s a TV commercial making the rounds that makes me ...
Reuters

Indonesia rescuers battle turbulent seas in search for 129 people after passenger ship capsizes

JAKARTA/SURABAYA, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Hundreds of Indonesian rescuers including the coast guard and the navy raced on Monday to board a passenger ship that capsized in the Java Sea over the weekend as ...
The Tennessean

How 9/11 inspired Dolly Parton to write her prayerful song 'Hello God'

Following the 9/11 attacks, the recently deceased Dolly Parton penned a prayerful track that explored faith and God's presence in the world in light of one of America's greatest tragedies. Not only ...
Yahoo

'A Different World' Netflix Premiere Date, Returning Cast

Reboots are everywhere these days, but not every show carries a legacy like A Different World does. The series helped shape a generation of viewers while putting Hillman College at the center of Black ...
nytimes.com

What Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing?

Educators are worried that many students can no longer write essays without A.I. And it’s costing more than just grammar skills. By Dana Goldstein After years of studying how human beings write, the ...
New York Post

Texas teacher breaks down in tears during class after his senior students struggled to read, write

A Texas high school teacher was reduced to tears and broke down in front of his class when he realized the seniors he was teaching couldn’t complete a writing exercise. Darius Williams, a teacher for ...