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Elon Musk counts on 500,000 Starlink users within the next year

SpaceX’s satellite internet network, Starlink, should have roughly 500,000 users within the next 12 months, Elon Musk said at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) conference on Tuesday. SpaceX’s current goal, Musk said, is to beam broadband internet to most of the planet by August. The internet network, in the midst of an open beta phase, has launched more than 1,700 satellites to low-Earth orbit…
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Sony may also acquire Demon’s Souls remake studio Bluepoint

Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out. PlayStation Studios added a new team today. Sony announced this morning that it is acquiring Returnal developer Housemarque. But this is seemingly not the last acquisition that Sony…
GamingNews

BioWare vet Casey Hudson opens Humanoid Studios

Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out. Casey Hudson announced on Twitter today that he and a team of developers have started Humanoid Studios. Hudson made his name at BioWare, directing RPG hits like Star Wars: Knights…
AI & RoboticsNews

AI safety tools can help mitigate bias in algorithms

Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out. As AI proliferates, researchers are beginning to call for technologies that might foster trust in AI-powered systems. According to a survey conducted by KPMG, across five countries — the U.S., the U.K., Germany, Canada, and Australia — over a third of the general public says that they’re unwilling…
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MobileNews

Apple releases iOS 14.7 beta 4 to developers, more

Apple has released the fourth developer betas of iOS 14.7 and iPadOS 14.7 today. The company is also rolling out watchOS 7.6 developer beta 4, as well as tvOS 14.7 developer beta 4. Head below for the details. Update: Now available to public beta testers as well.
MobileNews

T-Mobile cleverly brings free 30-day Test Drive program to iPhone XS and later via eSIM

T-Mobile has offered its free to trial the network for years now and that used to mean giving the Uncarrier a go through a hotspot device. Now T-Mobile is offering a super seamless way for iPhone users to give it a without any strings or actually having to switch carriers thanks to the use of the built-in iPhone eSIM. Spotted by LightReading (via The Verge), T-Mobile opened up the via eSIM.
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MobileNews

Chrome for Android to gain new widget to match iOS, complete with Dino Run shortcut

Chrome is set to offer a new home screen widget for Android to match the delightful ones added to Chrome for iOS. Earlier this year, Google joined the fun of introducing widgets to some of its iOS apps after the platform gained widget support with iOS 14. For Chrome, Google added three widgets, a simple search bar, a larger widget with a search bar and some handy shortcuts, and a shortcut to the…
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