Sports
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Motorsport Still Isn’t Part Of The Olympics, But Gran Turismo Will Be, Kind Of
If you’re any good at Gran Turismo, you might be able to take part in an Olympics-sanctioned event later this year ahead of the Tokyo Summer Games.
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Avatar: The Last Airbender Accidentally Trolled Its Fans Hard
Last Friday, Nickelodeon announced a brand-new Avatar: The Last Airbender series! Then, uh, it kind of changed its mind.
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The Mortal Kombat Cast Comes to Life in a New Featurette
One of the joys of the Mortal Kombat video games is seeing all the characters on the screen together and getting to choose your fighter. The below video isn’t quite that, but the character roll call and look behind the scenes of the action approximates that feeling of infinite possibility.
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40 Hours of Training Was All an AI Needed to Shatter the World Record in the World’s Hardest Video Game
Who says shame can’t be an effective motivator? Less than a week after we shared Wesley Liao’s experiments using machine learning to train an AI to play QWOP, one of the hardest video games of all time, the AI was re-trained with the goal of maximising its speed, resulting in a new world record.