Players of Pokémon Go have been quietly helping build navigation tech that's now heading into military drones, and most of them had no idea.
Since 2021, players scanning locations in the game for rewards created around 30 billion photos and videos of real streets, Niantic used all that player data to train a camera system that can figure out exactly where something is just by looking at its surroundings.
In December 2025, Niantic's mapping spin-off teamed up with a U.S. defense company called Vantor. They're combining this ground camera tech with drone systems so military drones and robots can navigate in places where GPS gets blocked
Players gave Niantic permission to use their scans through the game's rules, but almost nobody knew it could lead to military drone navigation.
Paramount Games creative chief is skeptical that AI can significantly speed up making games 🎮
"We want human hands to be on our products"
“If we say ‘by fans, for fans’, and then we put AI in ... Did the computer grow up collecting Ninja Turtles action figures? And comic books? And dreaming of skateboarding in the sewers?... No"
"The reality is, those tools haven't reached the point of maturity yet where we can say there are truly meaningful savings to be found"
"While there are perhaps accelerative properties to coding that we can achieve with AI today, actual content development and generation is not moving that much faster ... and certainly not improving the quality of the content that we can create"
(via @thegamebusiness)
Reports from Computex suggest that the next generation of gaming GPUs from Nvidia and AMD could be pushed back to late 2027 or even early 2028.
Board partners expect both AMD’s RDNA 5 cards and Nvidia’s next GeForce lineup to arrive much later than usual.
A possible reason is component shortages, as much of the advanced chip packaging and memory supply is currently being used for AI and data center hardware.
If that’s the case, today’s RTX 50 series and Radeon RX 9000 series could stick around for nearly three years.
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@carrots64 Yeah they should really pitch for the angle that governening the online space isn't the way to go and that it should be the parents job to watch their kids. However, this is disney and they benifit from having this extra data so
@carrots64 Genuinely such a shit app. I had it cause people said to get it, never used it and deleted it cause it was worthless. People saying it's a better service than WhatsApp are delusional
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