If you were a nerd online in the early ‘10s, you may recall Lore Sjöberg’s Dungeons & Dragons-inspired Speak with Monsters. The webcomic went dark years ago and it’s been only available in spotty online archives. But it’s getting republished (with an archival installment every Friday) in Sjöberg’s newsletter, starting with a strip based on the early D&D illustration below.
Top US archivist Colleen Shogan has quietly been changing educational material and exhibits at the Archives museum — including removing references to dark periods in US history, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Current and former staff say Shogan engaged in censorship by removing mention of events like Japanese American incarceration, displacement of indigenous peoples, and the Civil Rights Movement.
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The $1,300 ‘Aura Edition’ laptop doesn’t quite live up to its fancy new Lunar Lake processor.
The New York Times profiles AI visual effects company Metaphysic that creates digital masks for human faces like the ones found on Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, and Eminem — rendered in near real-time:
During the filming of “Here,” Metaphysic devised a setup that enabled Zemeckis and his crew to follow the shooting of scenes on two different monitors: one showing the raw feed from the camera of the actors as they appear in reality; and one filtered through its A.I. tools showing the actors at whatever age the scene required.
Russ Crandall is Retro Game Corps, and his job is at stake.
