How a biological version of rock-paper-scissors determines if lizard colors are maintained or lost

Two new studies into lizard colors reveal how one species maintains its colorful diversity while others are losing their ...
Wall Street Journal

Meta Is Developing a New AI Image and Video Model Code-Named ‘Mango’

AI tools like Google’s Veo 3 and Runway can now create strikingly realistic video. WSJ’s Joanna Stern and Jarrard Cole put them to the test in a film made almost entirely with AI. Watch the film and ...
TechCrunch

OpenAI continues on its ‘code red’ warpath with new image generation model

OpenAI is rolling out a new version of ChatGPT Images that promises better instruction-following, more precise editing, and up to 4x faster image generation speeds. The new model, dubbed GPT Image 1.5 ...
AOL

This AI Can Beat You At Rock-Paper-Scissors

Rock-paper-scissors is usually a game of psychology, reverse psychology, reverse-reverse psychology, and chance. But what if a computer could understand you well enough to win every time? A team at ...
Rock Paper Shotgun

A Game About Feeding A Black Hole, out today, is exactly what it proclaims to be, and surprisingly tranquil

I do not know if a black hole is something we should feed. Ostensibly they are things (anti-things? I'm not a black holeologist) that I would like to be far away from, given what I've heard. And yet ...
The New York Times

Joseph Byrd, Who Shook Up Psychedelic Rock, Dies at 87

A veteran of the Fluxus art movement, he brought an anarchic spirit to the California acid-rock scene with his band, the United States of America. By Alex Williams Joseph Byrd, an avant-garde musician ...
Rock Paper Shotgun

RPS Verdict: The Game Awards 2025

Last night saw the Peacock theatre in LA fill up with prominent game industry folk all eager to be blasted with trailers for four hours straight. We weren't in the room for The Game Awards 2025, but ...