Yesterday’s Nintendo Direct showcase was a doozy. As well as new trailers for upcoming games like Pikmin 4 and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, the company revealed the long-rumored Metroid Prime remaster, and casually announced it would be available later that same day. Alongside it, Nintendo also surprise-released an initial crop of Game Boy and Game Boy Advance games for its Switch online service. What delightful surprises.
Less delightful was Twitter’s performance yesterday, after the Elon Musk-owned social media network suffered technical issues that stopped people from tweeting, and broke DMs and TweetDeck. As Elon Musk would say, “Concerning.”
In lieu of a tweet, here’s a silly Mastodon post to start your day:
Stay tuned, as we continue to update this list with the most important news of today: Thursday, February 9th, 2023.
You might be able to see SpaceX test the Starship launch system on this stream.
During an event on Wednesday, SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell said the company would attempt a 33-engine static fire test today.
Naturally, the folks at NASA Spaceflight have their cameras trained on the test stand in Rocketland / Boca Chica, TX, and the livestream has caught signs that the time of the test is approaching soon.
An AI-generated health story had several errors.
A story about low testosterone generated using an AI tool and published by Men’s Journal contained several factual errors, Futurism reports.
Men’s Journal is the latest to publish — and then correct — stories that used AI systems following the CNET AI saga. CNET eventually added corrections to more than half of its AI-generated articles.
Green light.
So, what do you think of Microsoft’s new AI-enhanced search? Check out what it’s telling us in our first tests, and let us know in the comments if there are any other questions we should be asking.
