GamingNews

With titles like Battletoads and Grounded, Xbox Game Pass is inching closer to becoming like Netflix

August 20, 2020
You probably know the feeling: you set out to find something new on Netflix, but end up spending more time browsing than actually watching. There’s just so much there that it can be hard to make a choice. Recently I’ve been having the same issue every time I turn on my Xbox. Game Pass, Microsoft’s subscription service, is much like Netflix and other video streaming services in that, for a…
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GamingNews

Twitch star Timthetatman finally won a game of Fall Guys

August 20, 2020
While the world writhes in the clutches of a seemingly never-ending wave of chaos, one Twitch streamer’s heartwarming struggle to win a game of the new battle royale sensation Fall Guys is a story we can all happily rally around. Timothy “TimTheTatMan” Betar, a…
MobileNews

Here’s your best look yet at ZTE’s first smartphone with an under-display camera

August 20, 2020
ZTE has already announced that it plans to launch the first mass-produced 5G-enabled smartphone with an under-display camera in China next month, and now the company has shared new images that give us a better understanding of what that phone’s screen might actually look like (via Dutch website Tweakers). In the render at the top of this post, you can see that the phone, which will be called the…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Facebook gamifies data collection to boost conversational AI

August 19, 2020
Facebook once piloted a text-based fantasy role-playing game to improve the conversational models powering things like its chatbots and smart speakers. In a preprint paper, researchers at the company describe a game that iterates between collecting data and retraining models on the collected data, with a metric that evaluates and compares models using players’ continuation rates (i.e., how long…
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MobileNews

A new 5G BlackBerry phone with Android and a physical keyboard will arrive in 2021

August 19, 2020
The once-respected BlackBerry brand has been licensed yet again by a company hoping to use a familiar name to make a dent in the competitive Android phone market. This time, it’s a new Texas startup named OnwardMobility that’s taking the reins, promising to release a 5G BlackBerry device with Android and a physical QWERTY keyboard in 2021. Little else is known about the device, including…
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