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ChatGPT Kept 'Begging To Restart' Before Being Beaten By 1979 Atari 2600 In A 'Beginner Level' Chess Showdown
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 6:26am | 545Read More...An Atari 2600 chess cartridge has humiliated OpenAI's vaunted ChatGPT, highlighting the limits that large language models still face outside pure text. What Happened: Citrix engineer Robert Caruso pitted ChatGPT-4o against Video Chess (1979) through an emulator and watched the bot "get absolutely...
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Steve Jobs Job Application Hitting Auction In Test Of Physical Asset Vs. NFT
Wednesday, July 21, 2021 - 12:21pm | 577Read More...A 1973 job application from one of the most well-known business leaders of all time is hitting the market as a non-fungible token. What Happened: The 1973 hand-written job application from Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) founder Steve Jobs is launching as an NFT today at 12:41 p.m. ET. The auction format...
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'Eat, Sleep And Play': Atari To Develop Video Game Themed Hotels
Thursday, January 30, 2020 - 2:00pm | 458Read More...Wish you could just go back to the 1980s for a few days and play some Asteroid or Centipede? Well, there may not be a time machine to your parents' basement or the mall arcade, but there may be an updated alternative. What Happened Atari, which put tabletop Pong in so many 1980s restaurants and...
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SLIDESHOW: A History Of Video Game Console And Handheld Flops
Sunday, August 4, 2013 - 10:00am | 257Read More...Consumers have not always been kind to console and handheld manufacturers. While Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) may have earned a degree of loyalty for producing iPhones and iPads, gamers are less likely to stand by their favorite hardware maker. This became evident the moment that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT...
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Zynga Officially Unveils The Ville, Matching With Friends, Elite Slots, and a Partnership with Atari
Tuesday, June 26, 2012 - 3:00pm | 179Read More...Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA) has officially announced its next game in the "With Friends" series: Matching With Friends. Available now on the App Store, Matching With Friends is a puzzle game where players can swap and match colored blocks to score points. Zynga also showed off the next game in its casino...
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Cruising Around The World Of Test Drive Unlimited 2
Monday, March 7, 2011 - 6:02pm | 595Read More...If Take-Two Interactive's (NASDAQ: TTWO) Grand Theft Auto series was the inventor of the open-world action/driving game, then Test Drive Unlimited was the inventor of the first open-world racer. Several game publishers have tried to use that moniker, “open-world,” in their marketing materials. But...
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Should Apple Become a Game Developer?
Tuesday, February 22, 2011 - 5:32pm | 861Read More...In the game industry, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has become a lot of things: a facilitator (the App Store allows virtually anyone to develop and release games for the iPhone), a distributor (the App Store also guarantees that millions of average Joes are exposed to games they wouldn't have otherwise seen...
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iPhone In Danger Jan 19, Jan 27 (AAPL, SNE)
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 - 2:27pm | 2249Read More...On January 11, iPhone enthusiasts waited anxiously for confirmation of the Verizon (NYSE: VZ) / Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) deal. Less than one week later, investors moved cautiously as Steve Jobs announced that he was back on medical leave. Today, iPad users gasped at the news that their personal data...
