Yesterday's Top Technology News

1. Ubisoft's 'Assassin's Creed Shadows' debuts with 'mostly positive' rating on Steam

"Assassin's Creed Shadows" is an open world action-adventure game set in feudal Japan, in which players follow the stories of a stealthy female assassin Naoe and an African samurai Yasuke, inspired by the real-life eponymous figure.

2. Q&A: Oura appoints its first chief medical officer

Dr. Ricky Bloomfield, Oura's first CMO, spoke with MobiHealthNews about his plans for the company and his vision to personalize Oura's offerings using generative AI. By Jessica Hagen. March ...

3. Acoustic Holograms Target Precise Brain Areas with Ultrasound

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have reported that a new technology using focused ultrasound waves can noninvasively alter the activity of individual neurons. Known as Airy-beam holographic sonogenetics, the technology is similar to ...

4. Beware of fake CAPTCHA pages spreading malware

Cybercriminals are using fake CAPTCHA challenges to trick users into running malicious code. These scams often appear on compromised or ad-supported websites, urging users to complete extra verification steps. Once executed, this malware can steal ...

5. ?URA Appoints Ricky Bloomfield, MD as Chief Medical Officer

Dr. Bloomfield brings expertise in medicine, digital health, clinical informatics, and navigating the U.S. healthcare system. He joins Oura from Apple, where he served as Clinical and Health Informatics Lead. During his tenure ...

6. Neural network behind Geoffrey Hinton's Nobel Prize to be preserved by Computer History Museum

By the early 2000s, Hinton's graduate students at U of T were beginning to use graphics processing units (GPUs) to train neural networks for image recognition tasks and their success suggested that deep learning could be a path to creating general-purpose ...

7. 'Assassin's Creed: Shadows' launches for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S

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8. Assassin's Creed Shadows is good, but not great. Is that enough?

While Naoe is a Swiss Army knife, Yasuke is a hammer. The game habituates you to Naoe's typical Assassin playstyle — aerial parkour, stealthy takedowns, deadly tools, etc. Once you unlock Yasuke, you can swap to him when you're not around enemies, trading ...

9. Inside NASA's decision to keep astronauts in space: What's next for Starliner spacecraft?

If the findings of an independent report released this year have any weight, NASA not only made the right call in sending Starliner home without its crew, but may not even need the vehicle at all.

10. Synaptic plasticity rules driving representational shifting in the hippocampus

Synaptic plasticity is widely thought to support memory storage in the brain, but the rules determining impactful synaptic changes in vivo are not known. We considered the trial-by-trial shifting dynamics of hippocampal place fields (PF) as an ...

11. The stunning new Bugatti Tourbillon Équipe Pur Sang gets EIGHT exhaust pipes

Count 'em: that's eight exhaust pipes sticking out the back of Bugatti's automotive thunderclap, part of a suite of enhancements to an already ridiculously enhanced motor car. It's meant to draw a line from Bugatti's historic motorsport victories to now.

12. Introducing the Accessible Games Initiative

Tens of millions of Americans have a disability, but without a common language to describe the accessibility features within different video games, making informed purchases can be challenging. That is why Nintendo of America is pleased to announce ...

13. Bugatti Tourbillon's Équipe Pur Sang Package Has 8 Exhaust Pipes

The Bugatti Tourbillon Équipe Pur Sang is the first option package we've seen for the nearly $5 million Bugatti. Meant to pay homage to Bugatti's racing history, it comes with a new front splitter, new rear diffuser, and a new rear wing.

14. Strong together: the hottest co-op games

1. It Takes Two · 2. Elden Ring · 3. Genshin Impact · 4. Ghost of Tsushima · 5. Sackboy: A Big Adventure · 6. FIFA 21 · 7. Among Us · 8. Spelunky 2.