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Microsoft’s AI improves text summarization performance by paying closer attention to the beginning

February 14, 2020
A newsy feature from the New York Times is bound to have a different tone than the average Reddit post. Indeed, the diversity of writing styles and grammatical structures makes the task of automatic text summarization highly challenging. That’s why researchers from Pittsburgh and Microsoft Researcher’s Future Social Experiences (FUSE) lab, which focuses on real-time and media-rich experiences…
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Galaxy Buds+ with Spotify is good, but it could be great

February 14, 2020
Samsung hosted the Galaxy Unpacked event at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco on Tuesday and debuted Galaxy Buds+, its latest wireless earbuds to compete with Apple’s AirPods. The new wireless earbuds come with a subwoofer for bass and nearly double the battery time…
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How AI is stopping the next great flu before it starts

February 14, 2020
Immune systems across the globe have been working overtime this winter as a devastating flu season has taken hold. More than 180,000 Americans have been hospitalized and 10,000 more have died in recent months, according to the CDC, while the coronavirus (now officially…
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Samsung Galaxy Z Flip stock quickly depleting in the US

February 14, 2020
Interest for Samsung’s second foldable phone – the Galaxy Z Flip is unsurprisingly high. So much so that both the unlocked and AT&T versions of the device managed to sell out as soon as it was available online. Potential customers are now left with a choice between the Sprint units or having to wait until the next batch arrives. And if the demand stays this high only one of those…
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Realme confirms the X50 Pro will have 90Hz Super AMOLED screen

February 14, 2020
Realme is going to introduce the X50 Pro flagship with 5G in ten days, switching to an online event due to the cancellation of MWC 2020. Which means that the teaser campaign is in full swing and today it brought us another bit of the specs sheet. Realme Europe confirmed we…
GamingNews

Xbox Elite Series 2 is one of the fastest-selling gamepads ever

February 14, 2020
When Microsoft announced the first Xbox Elite Controller way back in 2015, everyone had the same question: Who is going to spend $150 on gamepad? It turns out that enough people bought it to justify the Xbox Elite Controller Series 2, which debuted in November for $180. And…
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Bidding for the 'Nintendo PlayStation' prototype is already over $200k

February 14, 2020
This “Nintendo PlayStation” occupies a special place in gaming history, as one of fewer than 200 prototype units ever produced, and now it’s up for auction. Its current owners explained how they came by it (in a bankruptcy auction that happened to include items from former Sony CEO Olaf Olafsson), and how they discovered what it was thanks to a Reddit post. We’ve already…
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'Half Life: Alyx' will hit Steam on March 23rd

February 14, 2020
Unlike many other publishers who’ve delayed big games in recent months, it appears as though Valve is actually sticking to the March release window it set for Half Life: Alyx. Even better, the VR prequel to Half-Life 2 now has an actual release date: March…
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Capcom is crushing it

February 14, 2020
Today, Capcom published an updated list of its all-time bestselling video games. The sales figures are correct up to December 31st, 2019, and reaffirm something that most video game fans have been believed or known about for sometime: man, Capcom is killing it. As Video Games Chronicle (VGC) notes, Devil May Cry 5 has now sold 3.1 million copies since its launch last March, making it the…
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