The UK just banned under-16s from social media. To enforce it, every adult has to prove their age with an ID or a face scan. You can't check the kids without checking everyone. Protecting children is the one thing nobody's allowed to vote against, which makes it very useful cover.
Production studios are freaking out over AI video while their execs still think TikTok is just kids dancing. Just look at the fidelity of the videos being produced in Seedance 2.0.
On this day 23 years ago, Super Mario Sunshine was released for the Gamecube.
Did you know that Isle Delfino, Sunshine's main setting, is shaped like a dolphin because "project dolphin" was the codename given to the Gamecube during its development?
Breakout came out today in 1976. Steve Jobs, who worked at Atari as an engineer, got his buddy Steve Wozniak to design a game, which became Breakout. It then inspired him to design a computer. The rest is history.
“Finally, a computer for women.”
This is a skit from the 2003 British satirical show Look Around You, which satirized English educational science and technology programmes of the 1980s.