This week, Microsoft and Nvidia announced that they trained what they claim is one of the largest and most capable AI language models to date: Megatron-Turing Natural Language Generation (MT-NLP). MT-NLP contains 530 billion parameters — the parts of the model learned from historical data — and achieves leading accuracy in a broad set of tasks, including reading comprehension and natural…
Google Home & Away Routines can now trigger when you arrive/leave a specified location
October 16, 2021
In late August, Google rolled out a pair of new features for Assistant Routines. Google’s Home and Away Routines for smart home devices now has a new arrive/leave location trigger.
Opening Routines (from Google Assistant settings or the Home app) and scrolling down to…
Samsung is now at its third generation of flagship foldables, and the Galaxy Z Fold 3 is the pinnacle of its achievements to date. Between better, more durable hardware, evolving foldable technology, and prices that keep inching their way down to sanity, the Fold 3 is a…
Google TV just announced support for user profiles this week, but it seems that feature is already getting special treatment. The maker of Google’s reference design remotes for Google TV and Android TV just revealed that the option is there for Google TV remotes to have a shortcut for user profiles.
TW Electronics revealed on Twitter that the G20 reference design it produces for Google TV OEMs…
Alphabet Scoop 135: Previewing Google’s ‘Pixel Fall Event’
October 16, 2021
This week 9to5Google’s Abner Li, Ben Schoon, and Kyle Bradshaw discuss all things Pixel as Google prepares for an event next week called the “Pixel Fall Event.” They give their predictions of what we will see and what we won’t.
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Google stopped offering fabric cases with the Pixel 5a and next week’s Pixel is set to continue that unfortunate change. Following an earlier leak at the start of this month, we now have a very good look at the Pixel 6 and 6 Pro case design.
Evan Blass this afternoon…
GamesBeat Summit Next: Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick, Niantic’s John Hanke, Xbox’s Sarah Bond
October 15, 2021
Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.
Sometimes you need people to inspire you to greater heights and to believe that some amazing technology is just around the corner. That’s what we’ll celebrate with our inspiring talks at our GamesBeat Summit Next event. And sometimes you need someone to be brutally honest and…
Nintendo Switch Online’s new tier costs an absurd $50 a year
October 15, 2021
Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.
Last month, Nintendo announced that it would make Nintendo 64 and Genesis games available in a new tier of its Nintendo Switch Online Service. Now we know…
AI-powered personalization provider Qubit gets acquired by Coveo
October 15, 2021
The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now!
AI-powered relevance platform Coveo today announced that it acquired Qubit, a leader in AI-powered personalization technology for merchandising teams. The…
Cosina has launched the Voigtlander APO-Skopar 90mm f/2.8 for Nikon’s F-mount. Cosina says that the lens has been designed to bring the appearance of chromatic aberration to as close to zero as possible.
The APO-Skopar 90mm f/2.8 follows the Color-Skopar 28mm f/2.8 SL II S that Cosina launched in September, also for F-mount. It, like the 28mm, is a tribute to classic SLR lenses. The 90mm f/2.8…
