Toxicity

The gaming scene currently is flooded with toxic players, who are disrupting the gameplay experience for the average gamer. Many game developers are trying to figure out a way to put a halt to such behavior. This includes Riot…

Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers have revamped an anti-cancer drug to better target cancer cells and leave healthy tissues unharmed. Scientists have dubbed this type of targeted approach a "prodrug" -- a medicine designed to release its…

Ubisoft and Riot Games are launching Zero Harm in Comms, a research project focused on AI-based solutions to toxicity during player interactions in multiplayer games.The program aims to expand the abilities of their AI tech…

Riot Games and Ubisoft have announced the ‘Zero Harm in Comms’ project, which will see the game developers team up to investigate “artificial intelligence-based solutions” to toxicity in multiplayer games. Riot Games is best known for its…

Windsor, ON, Oct. 28, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Media are invited to a special townhall-style event called TVO Today Live, a new series hosted by Steve Paikin, host of The Agenda with Steve Paikin, and made possible by a grant from the…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain New research, published in PeerJ Computer Science, which analyzes over 87 million posts and 2.205 billion comments…

A makeshift memorial sits beneath a mural of late Army Spc. Vanessa Guillen in Fort Worth, Texas in July…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Trolls, haters, flamers and other ugly characters are, unfortunately, a fact of life across much of the…

Riot Games‘ hero shooter Valorant will start recording in-game voice chats based on submitted behaviour reports starting in July.  The announcement comes via a post on the Riot Games website (via PC Gamer), which reads: “As part of a…

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have identified a novel strategy to reduce immune-related adverse events from immunotherapy treatment by targeting the cytokine interleukin-6 (IL-6). The study, published…