Overview of the news of the week in the world of techno.
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Once reserved for PC gamers, Anno 1800 has seamlessly made the leap to next-gen consoles from Sony and Microsoft.
Anno 1800 is a kind of hormone-bloated Sim City that allows you to manage your villages-turned-metropolises while forging alliances and launching expeditions. Anno 1800 is the continuation of a franchise born 25 years ago. Reserved for PC gamers, it has made the jump to next-gen consoles from Sony and Microsoft. The transition is flawless: tried out on a PS5, Ubisoft’s game adapts well to a console’s more limited controller, with simplified menus leading to sub-menus. You can be innovative or aggressive, but you’ll need to be inventive to manage the hundreds of factors that make your kingdom thrive. Probably the best console game of its kind.
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A team from Stanford University managed to build a chatbot as efficient as ChatGPT 4.0 for only $600.
A Stanford University team has accomplished a remarkable feat: building a chatbot as efficient as ChatGPT 4.0 for only $600. The trick: Use ChatGPT to refine and develop another, much less powerful robot called LLaMa 7B, whose source code was released by Meta. It is estimated that ChatGPT’s training cost $4.6 million; all indications are that the Stanford team’s robot called Alpaca is just as effective. But there’s a catch: ChatGPT’s commercial terms of service specifically forbid using it to develop a competing product. The experts state that this would obviously not prevent cybercriminals from doing so anyway.
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Amazon’s most popular subscription is Luna+, which currently offers access to 108 games for $12.99 per month.
Will Amazon succeed where Google lost? The cloud-based video game platform Luna, which has been available in the United States with limited access since October 2020, has been operational in Canada since Wednesday. Remember that Amazon opened its own studio in Montreal in March 2021. The experience is best with the Luna controller, which retails for $89.99 but is compatible with other controllers on phones, computers, or Fire TV. The most popular subscription is Luna+, which currently offers access to 108 games for $12.99 per month. The selection is honest, but cannot be compared to the more extensive catalogs of the competitors. Interesting option, we have access to Luna’s Ubisoft games purchased for PC.