When people ask what my favourite video game of all time is and I tell them, they inevitably wrinkle their nose and say: "What, the one with all the sailing?" To many, that's all The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker is: a 20-year-old GameCube release in which toon Link endlessly sails the vast sea on his trusty talking boat. In 2013, when the game was re-released on Wii U a decade after its debut, Nintendo took the criticisms on board (the talking boat) and added a "swift sail", allowing players to bypass hours of sluggish seafaring. The seafaring was the point. It has now been two decades since the original Wind Waker was released in Europe in May 2003 and it's time that landlubber critics accepted they were wrong.

French authorities plan to use an AI-assisted crowd control system to monitor people during the 2024 Paris Olympics, according to a draft law seen by AFP on Thursday. The system is intended to allow the security services to detect disturbances and potential problems more easily, but will not use facial recognition technology, the bill says. The technology could be particularly useful during the highly ambitious open-air opening ceremony with Olympians sailing down the river Seine in front of a crowd of 600,000 people. French police and sports authorities faced severe criticism in May after shambolic scenes during the Champions League final in Paris when football fans were caught in a crowd crush and teargassed. The draft law, which was presented to the cabinet on Thursday, proposes other security measures including the use of full-body scanners and increases the sentences for hooliganism.

It was not only audiences that turned to video games during the pandemic. With theatres closed, and TV and film production on hiatus, British actors chose work they could do from isolation – and the booming gaming industry was ready to fill the gap. "The minute the pandemic hit, it was just everyone asking me: 'What mic should I get? How do you set up a home studio?'" says Cassie Layton, an actor and musician from south-west London. "I was lucky in that I had worked doing voice acting for a few years before the pandemic hit. But every single actor, I think, either had the thought or took the action to set up a home studio."

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Artificial intelligence is moving into movie production. Screenwriters denied the big budgets and formidable resources of the major film studios may soon have another option, thanks to a new algorithm that can generate a video simply by consuming a (very short) script. The new movies are far from Oscar-worthy, but a similar technique could one day find uses outside entertainment, by, say, helping a witness reconstruct a car crash or a crime. Artificial intelligence (AI) is getting much better at identifying the content of images and providing labels. So-called "generative" algorithms go the other way, producing images from labels (or brain scans). A few can even take a single movie frame and predict the next series of frames.

The real-life robot transformer that puts on a different recyclable exoskeletons to change between walking, rolling, sailing to even flying. A link has been sent to your friend's email address. A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. The real-life robot transformer that puts on a different recyclable exoskeletons to change between walking, rolling, sailing to even flying.