Hideo Kojima – the acclaimed video game director who helmed the stealth-action Metal Gear series for decades before founding his own company to make Death Stranding, a supernatural post-apocalyptic delivery game this publication described as "2019's most interesting blockbuster" – is still starstruck, or perhaps awestruck. "George [Miller] is my sensei, my God," he proclaims gleefully. Kojima is visiting Australia for a sold-out chat with Miller, the creator of the Mad Max film franchise, at the Sydney film festival. The two struck up an unlikely but fierce friendship nearly a decade ago, and Kojima says that, as a teenager, the first two Mad Max films inspired him to become a movie director and thus, eventually, a video game maker. At the panel later, Miller is equally effusive, calling Kojima "almost my brother"; the Australian even lent his appearance to a major character in Kojima's latest game, Death Stranding 2. It's actually because of Miller that much of this latest game is set in a heavily fictionalised version of Australia, Kojima jokes.

Options in games like God of War Ragnarök and Street Fighter 6 help lessen unintentional barriers, introducing newcomers to previously inaccessible franchises and allowing others to join new communities. And accessible design innovations, awareness, and accommodations help create games we can all enjoy. Accessibility is equally important in the industry workspace. While it's great to buy a game for your Xbox or PlayStation and find dozens of accessibility features, disabled employees need systematic support to bring characters to life. Disabled voice actors shared with WIRED the ways their disabilities impact their work, and the importance of an inclusive industry.

For a while, Zoom was the most important company in America. Three years ago, the pandemic had forced offices to come up with extended remote-working arrangements, and Zoom became the indispensable videoconferencing platform of choice for millions of stuck-at-home Americans. This humble enterprise app was suddenly there for everything: work, school, social gatherings, activism, dating, telehealth, government hearings, funerals, sex parties, and pretty much anything else that made up life when everyone was locked indoors. Already a profitable company by the end of 2019, Zoom became a stock trader's dream after it landed on the NASDAQ in early 2020, growing its customer base by 470 percent, quadrupling its revenue (without paying any income tax, according to one report), and expanding its workforce throughout the year. Since then, as vaccination and reduced transmission allowed American enterprise to adjust back to normalish routines, Zoom has struggled to maintain its pandemic-era success.

AI is the big new thing, and already, folks are coming up with countless ways they can use it. Some of these ideas, though, are downright ludicrous. While AI-powered text generation tools like ChatGPT, Copy.ai, and Jasper are incredibly impressive, their usefulness and practicality are very easy to oversell. I've seen countless "suggestions" in viral blog posts and Twitter threads that don't work--but look like they did because the generated text seems plausible. So, if you're thinking about adding any AI content generators to your workflow, there are a few things you should keep in mind.

The old adage that health care is recession-proof will face a major challenge in 2023. Existing forces, including the exodus of talent from the health care profession and patients with advanced-stage disease returning to the clinic for the first time in several years, will only continue into the new year against a potentially bleak economic backdrop. Expect larger trends shaping the future of work to permeate the health care industry next year. Global business leaders are anticipating an influx of jobs that simply haven't existed before, a result of the anticipated need to integrate emerging technologies alongside tasks traditionally reserved for humans; consider the need for an IT department 40 years ago compared to now, as personal computers dominate office cubicles. Therein lies the need for health care organizations to recruit smart, adaptable students into the profession to meet tomorrow's needs.

A human resources department that manages a range of duties from strategic planning, employee welfare, and preserving employee branding is crucial for practically all firms throughout the world. The HR department is always working on a variety of projects that have to do with developing hiring strategies, employee training, payroll, employee welfare, and other things. However, it is challenging for HR professionals to keep up with the pace and manage all the tasks with the growing employee strength and strong attention to keeping the company's identity. In this situation, technology has become the HR department's saviour. There are excellent opportunities to considerably reduce the HR effort given the current need for AI and automation for recruiting and employee engagement activities.

During the pandemic, virtual conferences became the actual methodology of collaborating and connecting. It was each within and outdoors of the geographical point. A 2020 IDC report projected that the videoconferencing market would grow to $9.7 billion in 2021. And it will grow within ninetieth of North yank businesses. However in an associate degree interview with TechCrunch, the inexperienced argued that videoconferencing because it exists for many corporations nowadays.

Apple has told its employees they must come in to the office for at least three days a week from next month, in an effort to restore "in-person collaboration". In a memo to all employees, Tim Cook, Apple's chief executive, said the policy would require all staff to return to the office on Tuesdays and Thursdays, as well as a third day that would vary team by team. "We are excited to move forward with the pilot and believe that this revised framework will enhance our ability to work flexibly, while preserving the in-person collaboration that is so essential to our culture," Cook said in the memo. The official plan, emphasised as just a pilot in Cook's letter, is already a step back from an earlier proposal for all employees to come in on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday every week. The shift to a flexible day in addition to the two midweek days will allow some employees to continue to have four unbroken days at home each week.

Security experts are on the alert for the next evolution of social engineering in business settings: deepfake employment interviews. The latest trend offers a glimpse into the future arsenal of criminals who use convincing, faked personae against business users to steal data and commit fraud. The concern comes following a new advisory this week from the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), which warned of increased activity from fraudsters trying to game the online interview process for remote-work positions. The advisory said that criminals are using a combination of deepfake videos and stolen personal data to misrepresent themselves and gain employment in a range of work-from-home positions that include information technology, computer programming, database maintenance, and software-related job functions. Federal law-enforcement officials said in the advisory that they've received a rash of complaints from businesses.

Leaders preparing for work of the future often focus on data and technology, which are already fueling artificial intelligence and algorithms that are transforming the workplace. But human workers shouldn't get lost in the shuffle. Savvy managers are arming employees with the skills they need to integrate these new technologies into existing workflows. At the same time, leaders anticipate that the challenges and opportunities that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic, like remote work, will continue and become standard, though there is still a lot of work to be done in that area. "We are at the most important pivot point of the past couple years," said Dannielle Appelhans, LGO '11, chief operating officer at biotech Rubius Therapeutics.