Rey Esteban, a lifelong video game endings obsessive, presents and analyzes 248 game finales in "NES Endings Compendium Vol. 1: 1985-89," a newly expanded book that offers a visual history of some of the least-seen parts of old video games.
Why it matters: While there's no data on how frequently players of classic games saw how their adventures end, even modern games, which tend to be easier, often go uncompleted by players.
Parents are overwhelmed by a surge of apps to keep track of their kids' education.
The big picture: The number of education apps dramatically increased during the pandemic, which forced families to transform their homes into digital classrooms.
A key company in the nascent direct air capture sector won't accept investment from oil-and-gas companies.
Driving the news: The firm in question, Heirloom, also promised that no carbon dioxide removed with its technology will be used for enhanced oil recovery, wherein CO2 is injected to boost well output.
Meta admitted late last week that it has used mountains of public Facebook posts to train its AI models, per Reuters.
Why it matters: As the AI boom continues, content creators are challenging tech companies' use of their material in the development of advanced AI tools — and in Facebook's case, "content creators" means a few billion people.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic," the science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke famously said — but AI isn't magic, and you don't have to be a computer scientist to learn what makes ChatGPT tick.
Why it matters: AI is going to turn up soon in your workplace and home, if it hasn't already. You probably want to be prepared.
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