Sports
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Over 67,000 DraftKings Betting Accounts Hit by Hackers
New details about a hack from last month show that tens of thousands of users happily gambling away on DraftKings may have had their personal information stolen thanks to account info purchased off the sports gambling site.
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You Can 3D-Print This Game Boy Blaster That Fires Foam Darts From Swappable Cartridges
The Game Boy was a groundbreaking device when it debuted over thirty years ago, and is still influencing the design of similar devices even today. But while the Lame Boy looks like a very deliberate knock-off of the handheld, it’s actually a cleverly designed dart blaster that anyone with a 3D printer, and some basic…
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Iran Wants U.S. Kicked Out of FIFA World Cup for Briefly Changing Their Flag
The Iranian state media called for the U.S. to receive a 10-match ban from the 2022 FIFA World Cup on Sunday after the United States Soccer Federation showed support for protesters by temporarily changing Iran’s flag on its social media.
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Meta’s ‘Cicero’ AI Trounced Humans at Diplomacy Without Revealing Its True Identity
Ever since IBM’s Deep Blue artificial intelligence system defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov at his own game in 1997, humanity has watched, haplessly, year after year as our code based underlings vanquish us in ever more complicated games. There’s a catch though. While AI bots increasingly excel at trumping humans in head-to-head adversarial board…