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Mewgenics, the cat-breeding RPG that was originally announced as a follow-up to Super Meat Boy, is coming out in 2025, based on a new trailer shared by IGN and the game's updated Steam page. A blend of a turned-based RPG and twisted cat simulator, Mewgenics started as the next project from Team Meat, the development duo made up of Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes. Team Meat teased Mewgenics throughout 2013, but ultimately put the game on hold in 2014 to focus on finishing Super Meat Boy Forever, a mobile sequel to Super Meat Boy. When McMillen ultimately left Team Meat in 2018 to focus on supporting The Binding of Isaac, Mewgenics came with him, and the game has been slowly making its way to release since then. If the trailer is any indication, repeatable, turn-based battles have become a big part of Mewgenics, but McMillen's trademark gross-out animation style remains intact (as does all of the cat furniture). If you're looking for more information about how the game has changed since it was announced over a decade ago, McMillen and co-developer Tyler Glaiel have kept up a relatively regular cadence of blog posts on Steam covering different aspects of the development process. We should also see a lot more of the game soon: In their latest update, Mewgenics' developers shared that IGN is publishing hands-on coverage of the game in May.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/pc/the-creator-of-binding-of-isaac-will-release-a-new-game-mewgenics-this-year-211049653.html?src=rss
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Early this year, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta would be ditching its long-running fact checking program, claiming that it has enabled too much censorship on the companys apps. Now, Meta has set an end date for fact-checking on Facebook, Instagram and Threads (at least for its US users). By Monday afternoon, our fact-checking program in the US will be officially over, Metas recently elevated policy chief Joel Kaplan announced in a post on X. That means no new fact checks and no fact checkers. Instead, Meta has been slowly ramping up Community Notes. Meta began allowing potential contributors to sign up in February. It began testing the system, which will initially be powered by the same algorithm as Community Notes on X, earlier this month. But the crowdsourced fact checks have yet to appear publicly on posts. It sounds like thats also about to change with the official end of Metas existing fact checking partners. The first Community Notes will start appearing gradually across Facebook, Threads & Instagram, with no penalties attached, Kaplan said. Though Meta has said it wants to eventually end fact checking entirely, the company has said relatively little about its plans for Community Notes outside of the US. That may be because officials in other countries, like Brazil and the European Union, have already expressed concern about how the change could affect the flow of disinformation around the world. Metas push to end fact checking in the US came early this year alongside several other policy changes that marked a notable rightward shift for the social network just as President Donals Trump took office. The company also ended corporate DEI programs, rolled back hate speech protections on its services and added a close Trump ally to its board.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/social-media/meta-is-entering-its-post-truth-era-on-monday-202858791.html?src=rss
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Microsoft just announced several updates to its Copilot AI assistant, and some sound downright useful. Its bringing Copilot Vision to mobile, but with some new features. For the uninitiated, this software originally launched for the Edge web browser and gave Copilot the ability to see and comment on the contents of websites. The company is upping its game for the mobile version, adding some multimodal functionality. Itll be able to integrate with your phones camera to enable an interactive experience with the real world. Microsoft says it can analyze both real-time video from the camera and photos stored on the device Microsoft gives an example of Copilot Vision analyzing a video of plants to determine if they are healthy or not and suggesting actions to take. Well see if it can actually perform that kind of nuanced reasoning. Modern AI companies love to promise the world and then, well, you know the rest. In any event, the mobile version of Vision is available today in the Copilot app for iOS and Android. The web version is also coming to Windows. Microsoft is bringing Copilot Search to Bing to seamlessly blend the best of traditional and generative search together to help you find what you need. The company is now calling Bing your AI-powered search and answer engine. Like most AI web search tools, this provides summaries to answer queries. Microsoft says this can take the form of a simple paragraph, like Gemini AI for Google searches, but that it also can provide images and data from your favorite publishers and content owners. Copilot Search is rolling out today. The company also introduced something called Copilot Memory. This is Microsofts attempt to bring more personalization to Copilot. After all, its tough to have a true AI companion when it doesnt remember anything about you. With this addition, Copilot will be able to remember specific details about your life, like your favorite food, the types of films you enjoy and your nephews birthday and his interests. The company touts that the software will recommend actions based on what it remembers. To that end, Microsoft says Copilot will be able to do stuff like buy tickets to events, order flowers and make dinner reservations. It says the service will work with most websites across the web. Well see how that works out. The update brings some other tools to the table, like the ability to auto-generate podcasts based on specific topics and offer shopping advice based on sales history across the web. These updates begin rolling out today, but it may not hit every user for a bit. Microsoft says availability will expand in the coming weeks and months.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ai/microsofts-latest-copilot-updates-include-a-mobile-version-of-the-multimodal-vision-tool-182752162.html?src=rss
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