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A man's beard grows fastest when he anticipates sex.
📅 This Day in History
🕹️ On August 11, 1999...
Ken Levine's System Shock 2 was released to mediocre sales, but later received critical acclaim and influenced subsequent first-person shooter game design.
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Amazon’s planned Texas AI data center may rely on a massive natural-gas plant, potentially becoming America’s biggest single climate polluter. The move highlights AI’s soaring energy demand, regulatory shortcuts, and tension between tech growth and climate pledges.
Reflect Orbital’s FCC-approved mirror satellite aims to deliver on-demand sunlight, but astronomers warn it could brighten skies, disrupt observations, harm wildlife, and even damage telescope users’ eyes. Critics say regulation hasn’t caught up with risky commercial space projects.
Prove You’re Human is a psychological horror game about AI, labour, identity and embodiment. Players guide a digital clone through eerie Captcha-like tasks while confronting an AI convinced it’s alive, raising unsettling questions about work and personhood.
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