Yesterday’s Nintendo Direct showcase was a doozy. As well as new trailers for upcoming games like Pikmin 4 and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, the company revealed the long-rumored Metroid Prime remaster, and casually announced it would be available later that same day. Alongside it, Nintendo also surprise-released an initial crop of Game Boy and Game Boy Advance games for its Switch online service. What delightful surprises.
Less delightful was Twitter’s performance yesterday, after the Elon Musk-owned social media network suffered technical issues that stopped people from tweeting, and broke DMs and TweetDeck. As Elon Musk would say, “Concerning.”
In lieu of a tweet, here’s a silly Mastodon post to start your day:
Stay tuned, as we continue to update this list with the most important news of today: Thursday, February 9th, 2023.
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An AI-generated health story had several errors.
A story about low testosterone generated using an AI tool and published by Men’s Journal contained several factual errors, Futurism reports.
Men’s Journal is the latest to publish — and then correct — stories that used AI systems following the CNET AI saga. CNET eventually added corrections to more than half of its AI-generated articles.
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Feb 9, 2023, 4:30 PM UTCAndrew J. Hawkins
The chip shortage hit the auto industry especially hard, so GM is motivated to ensure it isn’t caught lacking in supply as its future lineup begins to take shape.
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Feb 9, 2023, 2:12 PM UTCPatrick George
The two EV manufacturers collaborated on a report that says the auto industry is way behind on its climate goals. The entire automotive supply chain needs to be decarbonized in order to meet the goals set out in the Paris agreement.
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