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Zombie game maker Techland joins Tencent’s global empire in latest acquisition

July 25, 2023
Tencent, the world’s largest gaming company, is set to gobble up Techland, the Polish game developer known for open-world zombie games like Dying Light, adding yet another member to its sprawling investment portfolio. In a letter to players, Techland’s founder and CEO Paweł Marchewka announced that Tencent is in the process of becoming the gaming […]

OpenAI scuttles AI-written text detector over ‘low rate of accuracy’

July 25, 2023
OpenAI has shut down its AI classifier, a tool that claimed to determine the likelihood a text passage was written by another AI. While many used and perhaps unwisely relied on it to catch low-effort cheats, OpenAI has retired it over its widely criticized “low rate of accuracy.” The theory that AI-generated text has some […]

Google Search is making it easier to find relevant information on women’s sports

July 25, 2023
Google is introducing a few new ways to make it easier for users to find relevant information when searching for women’s sports, the company announced on Tuesday. The new updates come in time for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup. The search giant says it has expanded coverage of women’s competitions in the information boxes […]