Month: May 2024
Nolah Evolution Hybrid Mattress Review 2024: Hotel Style Comfort With Firmness Options – CNET
Looking for a “hotel style” mattress for your home and want to be able to pick and choose your firmness level? The Nolah Evolution Hybrid could be the bed for you.
Looking for a “hotel style” mattress for your home and want to be able to pick and choose your firmness level? The Nolah Evolution Hybrid could be the bed for you.
Mental Health Looks Different for Everyone. Here’s How to Prioritize Yours – CNET
There’s no cookie-cutter definition of good mental health. Read on to learn how to embrace yours in a way that works for you.
There’s no cookie-cutter definition of good mental health. Read on to learn how to embrace yours in a way that works for you.
Watch Europa Conference League Final: Livestream Olympiakos vs. Fiorentina From Anywhere – CNET
The Italian side look to make amends for last year’s heartache as they take on Greek giants.
The Italian side look to make amends for last year’s heartache as they take on Greek giants.
How CNET Tests Credit Cards: We Scour the Fine Print So You Don’t Have To – CNET
We break down the value of each credit card to see how it stacks up against the competition.
We break down the value of each credit card to see how it stacks up against the competition.
Sony removes interview that quotes Last of Us creator lauding AI tools
Move comes after Druckmann publicly disavowed some quotes: “This is not quite what I said.”
Enlarge / Naughty Dog’s Neil Druckmann, seen here not questioning the accuracy of a PR interview. (credit: Getty Images)
Sony has taken down an interview with Naughty Dog Studio Head Neil Druckmann (Uncharted, The Last of Us) that the company now says contains “several significant errors and inaccuracies that don’t represent his perspective and values.” The surprising move comes after Druckmann himself took the extreme measure of publicly questioning a portion of the PR interview by posting a lengthy transcript that conflicted with the heavily edited version Sony posted online.
The odd media saga began last Thursday, when Sony published the interview (archive here) under the heading “The Evolution of Storytelling Across Mediums.” The piece was part of the Creative Entertainment Vision section of Sony’s corporate site, a PR-driven concept exploring how Sony will “seamlessly connect multi-layered worlds where physical and virtual realities overlap to deliver limitless Kanto—through creativity and technology—working with creators.” Whatever that means.
Druckmann’s short interview started attracting attention almost immediately, primarily for Druckmann’s apparent promotion of using AI tools in game development. Such tools “will allow us to create nuanced dialogues and characters, expanding creative possibilities,” Druckmann is quoted as saying. “AI is really going to revolutionize how content is being created, although it does bring up some ethical issues we need to address.”
America’s Best Decade
Andrew Van Dam, writing for The Washington Post:
So, we looked at the data another way, measuring the gap between each person’s birth year and their ideal decade. The consistency of the resulting pattern delighted us: It shows that Americans feel nostalgia not for a specific era, but for a specific age.
The good old days when America was “great” aren’t the 1950s. They’re whatever decade you were 11, your parents knew the correct answer to any question, and you’d never heard of war crimes tribunals, microplastics or improvised explosive devices. Or when you were 15 and athletes and musicians still played hard and hadn’t sold out.
I have more nostalgia for the 1990s, when I was in my 20s, than I do the 1980s, but I can see why these answers tend toward the decade of one’s teenage years.
(Via Kottke.)
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Andrew Van Dam, writing for The Washington Post:
So, we looked at the data another way, measuring the gap between each person’s birth year and their ideal decade. The consistency of the resulting pattern delighted us: It shows that Americans feel nostalgia not for a specific era, but for a specific age.
The good old days when America was “great” aren’t the 1950s. They’re whatever decade you were 11, your parents knew the correct answer to any question, and you’d never heard of war crimes tribunals, microplastics or improvised explosive devices. Or when you were 15 and athletes and musicians still played hard and hadn’t sold out.
I have more nostalgia for the 1990s, when I was in my 20s, than I do the 1980s, but I can see why these answers tend toward the decade of one’s teenage years.
(Via Kottke.)