This New York City Basketball Court Just Became A Spectacular Work Of Art

A wishful post about AI doing household chores hit a nerve. There's what we want technology to do, what it actually can do, and who decides what should and shouldn't be automated.

Here's what to watch the week of July 8 to July 14.

Whatever your views on AI the and huge amount of computational power it takes, as well as its effect on the planet, sometimes it can be justified. Today is one such time. AI-modding Taylor Swift, Mark Zuckerberg, and Kanye West with Bethesda’s 2006 Skyrim-predecessor Oblivion has to be worth knocking a few years off the lifetime of Planet Earth. A video from IRL Loading Screens, an account that spoofs the Bethesda loading screens usually packed with pretentious advice while whatever bug-ridden but amazing abomination loads in the background, released a video that uses AI to overlay celebrity renders over Oblivions’s NPC’s and impart their own celebrity advice.

As Telegram’s Play-to-Earn games gain popularity, the altcoin 99Bitcoins aims to flip the trend with its Learn-to-Earn narrative, leading to strong presale demand. 99Bitcoins, a well-known platform in the crypto industry, has spent over a decade educating newcomers about Bitcoin. Over time, it expanded its knowledge base to cover many other cryptocurrencies, and now it is launching its own native crypto, the $99BTC token. 99Bitcoins (99BTC) utility and features 99Bitcoins, a Learn-to-Earn cryptocurrency, serves as the ultimate learning tool for those interested in cryptocurrency.

Silent Hill 2 is one of the most iconic survival horror games in the history of gaming. Originally released in 2001 on the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and PC, by developers Team Silent and publishers Konami, the cult status of the game has ensured a huge level of hype for Bloober Team’s upcoming remake. When will the Silent Hill 2 Remake be released? The Silent Hill 2 Remake will be released on October 8, 2024 – 24 years and two weeks after the original game’s release.

Makers all over the world have been putting their designing hats on and creating 3D-printable retro gaming goodies for the latest design competition on the Makerworld.com website. From a set of Mario rings to Nintendo NES controller keychains, if you are into your retro gaming and want some cool, unique items for your games room or set up, then this is well worth checking out as all competition entries are downloadable and printable. If you have a Bambu Lab printer such as the A1 the files you download will automatically be set up to print in multi-color using Bambu’s clever multi-filament feeder – the AMS, but even if you do not have a multi-color system there are plenty of ways and items you can print that would be just as cool. Let’s have a look at some of our favorite models so far – the competition still has a couple of weeks to run so there are bound to be even more designs arriving daily so it is definitely worth checking back regularly to see what the designers have all come up with. Elite Cobra Mk3 (1984 We are starting with a true icon of 1980s gaming – the Mk3 Cobra spacecraft from classic space sim Elite – a game that is still going in its latest iteration Elite Dangerous.