Imagine you are scrolling through Facebook and come across a post that makes your stomach drop: “HPV vaccines increase the risk of neurological problems.” You have a child in the recommended age range for the vaccine, and suddenly that alarming headline sticks in your mind. Then you see a reply from an artificial intelligence account dedicated to fact-checking. It says the claim is false. Do you change your mind? According to new research led by Washington State University, your answer may depend less on whether the correction is accurate and more on how the AI speaks to you—and what you…

Some games are built from careful market research, designed by committee and polished until every edge is smooth enough to be forgettable. And then there are games like False Hero — the rare kind that feels less like a product and more like a confession. Developed by Torchlight Games and published by Ytopia, False Hero is a fast-paced soulslike that understands the genre’s core appeal isn’t just difficulty, but discovery. The hook is beautifully simple: you can steal the attacks of your enemies and chain them into combos of your own. You aren’t merely dodging and rolling through a hostile…