The Battle for Highway 82 hits the hardwood as the Mississippi State Bulldogs (19-8) head to Tuscaloosa to face theAlabama Crimson Tide(22-5). The SEC continues to be a gauntlet this season. The Bulldogs are a top-25 basketball team, yet they can’t even crack the top-7 within their conference. The Tide are tied for second in the SEC with Florida, as top-ranked Auburn remains in first place. After two ranked wins against Ole Miss andTexas A&M, the Bulldogs were upset by the Oklahoma Sooners on Saturday....

A new leak fromYouTuber Moore’s Law is Deadlays out Intel’s plans throughout 2022. According to the rumor, Intel plans on releasing Alder Lake HX mobile processors in early 2022, bringing desktop-class performance to laptops. The company is also gearing up for the next-gen Raptor Lake launch in late 2022, and the flagship chip from the range is said to feature a total of 24 cores. We’ve known for a while that Intel plans on using a big/little core design forAlder Lake processors....

Pre-registration has opened forMonument Valley 3,Netflix’s next mobile game. Ahead of the announcement duringNetflix Geeked Week, Digital Trends learned more details about the upcoming sequel and got a glimpse at two of its chapters. Monument Valley 3is the latest entry in the popular mobile puzzle series, which hasn’t had a new installment since 2017’sMonument Valley 2. The latest chapter comes to mobile via Netflix on December 10. Ahead of that release, Netflix will release the first two games on the service on September 19 and October 29 respectively....

Like previous Star Wars movies, Otterbox is celebrating the release ofSolo: A Star Wars Storywith the launch of a slew of new Otterbox Symmetry phone cases. There are three cases in total, each of them celebrating a different aspect of the film. First up, you have the Millennium Falcon style, which shows the Falcon itself on the back, above text that reads “The All-New Millennium Falcon.” The case is blue white and blue....

Panasonic has announced its newestDSLM(“M” for micro)camera, the 12-mega pixel GF2, and it promises to be both versatile and compact. Its’ predecessor,the GF1, was a hit with consumers and all things are pointing to similar results for its upgrade. It’s significantly smaller but still has its “signature built-in flash,” as Senior Product Manager Darin Pepple reports, and is compatible with Panasonic interchangeable lenses. He also claims the camera is “’future-proof,’” referencing its3Dcapabilities....

With a little more than 48 hours to go until CES 2021, Panasonic has unveiled its flagship OLED TV for 2021, theJZ2000— a stunning technological tour de force festooned with speakers. And, as has been the case for several years now, Panasonic has not committed to U.S. availability or pricing for the new model, which may be sold only in Europe. The JZ2000 will be sold in Europe later his year in two sizes: 55- and 65-inches....

In 2016, Activision releasedCall of Duty: Modern Warfare Remasteredalongside developer Infinity Ward’s newest game,Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. The retouched game brought its classic campaign and online multiplayer to a new generation of consoles, and it looks like the same thing could be happening forModern Warfare 2. In a Pan European Game Information board (PEGI) listing that has now been removed,Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remasteredfor PlayStation wasapparently confirmed....

OpenAI CEO Sam Altmanpublished a blog poston Monday, musing about the history and future direction of the company. In it, he confidently states that his company knows “how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it,” and that it is now working toward a “glorious future” of artificial super-intelligence. Altman also revealed Monday that OpenAI’s $200-per-monthPro subscriptionis somehow losing the company money. “We love our current products, but we are here for the glorious future,” Altman wrote Monday....

A group of freeVPN appsreportedly exposed a treasure trove of private data of millions of users. Discovered byvpnMentor, a total of seven VPN providers, all of which explicitly claimed they didn’t record their users’ activities, left more than a terabyte of browsing logs out in the open for anyone to access. The leaked data silo housed a wide range of sensitive data, some of which was personally identifiable too. VpnMentor claims it included records of the websites users visited, plain-text passwords, PayPal payment information, device specifications, email addresses, and more....

Street Fighter 6 fans are angrier than Evil Ryu over Outfit 3 pricing Street Fighter 6 has finally released Outfit 3, but fans weren’t prepared for just what the pricing of the 18 costumes would be. Thelong-awaited Outfit 3has finally arrived for Capcom’s Street Fighter 6, but it’s not what fans were hoping for. Outfit 3 features new looks for the various Street Fighter 6 characters and is the first piece of DLC with costumes for actual playable characters rather than being cosmetics for World Tour create-a-characters....

Studio Ghibli partner calls out viral AI trend following classic film rerelease The OpenAIStudio Ghiblitrend has taken the world by storm, with users from around the world using ChatGPT’s AI image generator to create ‘art’ inspired by legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki. However, a Studio Ghibli partner has called out the trend. On March 26, following the release of ChatGPT’s latestAIimage generator, users flocked to the site to make Ghibli-style images. It has become so popular that even OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, hasurged fansto ease up on generating images....

Tayler Holder slams “fake” accusations after opening up on cease & desist letters TikTok star Tayler Holder opened up about sending out cease and desist letters nearly two years after allegations surfaced that seemed to accuse him of sexual assault. Tayler Holderis a social media star who wasfamously droppedby many of his fellow influencer friends back in early 2022. A few in Holder’s former circle made vague references to “unforgivable actions” in various Instagram stories posts, with a slew of high-profile creators unfollowing him on social media....

When is a rifle actually a3D-printedturtle? When is an espresso actually a baseball? A fascinating, yetalarming new piece of researchfrom MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) shows that it’s possible to create objects that are able to trick Googleimage recognitionalgorithms into thinking they are looking at something else entirely. In their paper, the team of MIT researchers describe an algorithm which changes the texture of an object just enough that it can fool image classification algorithms....