Scientific American

This mathematician proved a brilliant theorem to justify his social awkwardness

George Pólya’s random walk theorem absolved him of being a lurker and revealed how the laws of chance interact with physical ...
PC Magazine

I Don't Trust Password Generators, So I Built My Own. Here's How You Can, Too

Remembering passwords is just too hard. Some people “solve” the problem by using easy passwords, things like a pet’s name or partner’s birthday. Others memorize a single, long, complex password and ...
PC Magazine

I Don't Trust Password Generators, So I Built My Own. Here's How You Can, Too

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...
IGN

Sony Patents System to Generate AI Podcasts in the Voices of Your Favorite PlayStation Characters

The patent, submitted in mid-2024 and published in January, claims the system, dubbed "LLM-based generative podcasts for gamers," will generate "unique, personalized podcasts of news that a particular ...
Nintendo Wire

Google’s Project Genie AI service launches and lets you generate ‘games’ with Nintendo copyrighted characters

It’s not every day that you see a listing for an upcoming movie completely spoil the surprise of a character included in it. In a listing on the London-based Everyman Cinema website (Warning: the link ...