Tag: boxes
The best robot litter boxes of 2023
Terrorists limited to two boxes of books in prison cells
Best Wireless Bluetooth Boom Boxes for 2023: Portable Pool and Beach Speakers, Ranked – CNET
Australian government cracks down on loot boxes and in-game gambling with new age rating proposals
The federal government in Australia have today proposed a number of changes to their National Classification Scheme as they seek to crack down on digital gambling and video games that promote it. The proposed changes would apply an R18+ (over 18s) rating to any game with simulated gambling, and an M for “mature” (over 15s) rating to any games with paid loot boxes, potentially changing the classification for games such as FIFA which were previously G-rated (for everyone).
ChatGPT started a new kind of AI race — and made text boxes cool again
It’s pretty obvious that nobody saw ChatGPT coming. Not even OpenAI. Before it became by some measures the fastest growing consumer app in history, before it turned the phrase “generative pre-trained transformers” into common vernacular, before every company you can think of was racing to adopt its underlying model, ChatGPT launched in November as a “research preview.”
The blog post announcing ChatGPT is now a hilarious case study in underselling. “ChatGPT is a sibling model to InstructGPT, which is trained to follow an instruction in a prompt and provide a detailed response. We are excited to introduce ChatGPT to get users’ feedback and learn about its strengths and weaknesses.” That’s it! That’s the whole pitch! No waxing poetic about…
It turns out sorting boxes in the sterilized corporate afterscape is actually really fun
All the Streaming Boxes Suck Now
You could almost argue that in their current form, streaming boxes don’t need to exist at all. By most measures, a majority of consumers in the US already own a smart TV — and if you’re in the market for a new set, you can barely find one that doesn’t have some operating system built in. Of course, most of those smart TVs are slow, riddled with ads, and try to track your every move. That’s why a good streaming box is such a good idea, at least in theory. The rest of tech’s evolution has made good TV hardware and software even more important — cloud gaming is improving all the time, our homes are getting smarter, we’re even using our TVs to video chat. Streaming boxes let you upgrade without throwing out your big screen and add new features that might not come baked into the set itself. Plus, a good box could mitigate some of the worst ills of the smart TV world. To borrow an old-TV analogy: the built-in smart TV stuff is like the rabbit ears of old, and we need the cable box.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
‘The cream of the crop in Hull’: Rare cream-coloured phone boxes granted listed status
Deviant Cologuard boxes harass Woody Harrelson in ‘SNL’ sketch
UPDATE: Feb. 26, 2023, 8:01 p.m. CST This article had been updated to reflect accurate information about Cologuard and it’s use, as confirmed by a representative with the company that makes Cologuard.
Woody Harrelson being harassed and urged to take a dump into a colon cancer screening box was not on my 2023 bingo card but here we are I guess. Harrelson, this weekend’s host for Saturday Night Live, starred in the most absurd spoof commercial yet this season, as the actor fends off deviant Cologuard boxes who want him to “unleash” inside them.
Gross, I know.
Cologuard for those at home that don’t know (I didn’t until having to write this), is a noninvasive at-home screening test for adults 45 or older who are at average risk for colon cancer. SNL as a part of its series of creepy commercials envisions a universe where not only do the Cologuard boxes talk but they enjoy having you “unleash” in them.
It’s a hilarious, albeit creepy watch whether it’s watching Harrelson slap away the wandering hands of Thomas the Cologuard box (“Why do I hate knowing that,” Harrelson mutters to himself) or seeing Kenan Thompson play the just as creepy and perverted UPS guy.