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Last March, just two weeks after GPT-4 was released, researchers at Microsoft quietly announced a plan to compile millions of APIs—tools that can do everything from ordering a pizza to solving physics equations to controlling the TV in your living room—into a compendium that would be made accessible to large language models (LLMs). This was just one milestone in the …

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If you follow the discourse around Call of Duty from a certain segment of the player base, you’ll no doubt have heard the cries about disbanding lobbies, which has over the years taken on a sort of mythical status that YouTubers and the most dedicated players always claim would make the experience better for everyone if it got removed. Modern …

Editor’s note: The below contains spoilers for the Justified: City Primeval finale. For almost its entire season, Justified: City Primeval delivered the (rather excellent) stand-alone sequel series its creators promised. And while it’s been great fun seeing Raylan Givens, Timothy Olyphant‘s fearless U.S. Marshal, tackle a new adventure in Detroit over the last two months, you could always feel the …

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo’s visit to China is putting a spotlight on the future of TikTok in the United States, where criticism of the app and its ties to Beijing reached a fever pitch this year. Despite the intense pressure on the popular short-form video app, which is owned by the Chinese technology company ByteDance, efforts to ban or regulate …

Underlying Tian’s sculpture is a sense of anonymity often found in classical statuary. Guided by the natural structure of the raw material, his modestly sized, deftly shaped faces and human forms seem to engage in a never-ending dance of fading in and out of the vessels. The artist revives found and collected everyday objects and kitchen utensils, such as cutting …

President Vladimir Putin had brought up the possibility of Russia resuming nuclear tests as a message to the US, Russian diplomat Dmitry Glukhov told the UN General Assembly on Tuesday. “I wish to underscore that the aforementioned statement by the Russian president about the hypothetical possibility of our country resuming nuclear tests, mentioned during his speech to the federal legislature, …

Sonic Superstars, the new 2D Sonic platformer from Sega coming out later this year, looks a lot like a fresh take on the famous blue blur. It ditches pixel art for a cartoony new visual style that looks pretty good. But if you were hoping for a future Sonic game to return to its classic pixel-art roots, that might not …

Matt Winkelmeyer/FilmMagic Selena Gomez’s little sister Gracie is all grown up — and has some major hairstyling skills.  Gomez, 31, took to social media on Tuesday, August 29, to share a photo of the 10-year-old hanging out with the singer’s longtime pals Nicola Peltz Beckham and Brooklyn Beckham — revealing Gracie was the one to give Brooklyn his new buzzcut. …

Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority TL;DR Apple has sent out invites for its ‘Wonderlust’ special Apple Event, to be held on Tuesday, September 12, at 10 a.m. Pacific time. At this event, the company is expected to launch the iPhone 15 series, the Apple Watch Series 9, the Apple Watch Ultra 2 and refreshes to its AirPods lineup. The event …