GamingNews

Green Man Gaming’s new program simplifies the publishing process

January 24, 2020
Green Man Gaming isn’t the most straightforward name for an online retailer. But it has some sentimental value for cofounders Paul Sulyok and Lee Packham, who first talked about starting the company while at a London pub called The Green Man. They borrowed the name, created a mascot (an alien life form known as Alf), and launched GMG in 2010. Over the last decade, Green Man Gaming has become a…
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AI & RoboticsNews

ProBeat: Why Google is really calling for AI regulation

January 24, 2020
On Sunday, the Financial Times published an op-ed penned by Sundar Pichai titled “Why Google thinks we need to regulate AI.” Whether he wrote it himself or merely signed off on it, Pichai clearly wants the world to know that as the CEO of Alphabet and Google, he believes…
MobileNews

LG announces timeline for Android 10 on V50 ThinQ, G8X...

January 24, 2020
Over the last few years, LG has garnered a reputation for updating their Android devices at a significantly slower pace than nearly all of their competitors. With Google I/O 2020 now on the horizon, most likely bringing the next major Android version, LG has finally…
AI & RoboticsNews

Amazon’s AI automatically dubs videos into other languages

January 24, 2020
Ever wish you could automatically dub foreign film dialogue into another tongue? Amazon’s on the case. In a paper published this week on the preprint server Arxiv.org, researchers from the tech giant detailed a novel “speech-to-speech” pipeline that taps AI to align translated speech with original speech and fine-tune speech duration before adding background noise and reverberation. They say…
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MobileNews

Jeff Bezos iPhone hack: evidence not conclusive, say other security experts

January 24, 2020
Doubt is today being cast on a reported Jeff Bezos iPhone hack, which was said to have given attackers full access to the photos and messages stored on his iPhone X. The report was based on analysis by a cybersecurity firm commissioned by the Amazon founder to find out how private messages and photos were obtained by the  … Analysis by cybersecurity company FTI Consulting found that malware was…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Boston Dynamics gives its robot dog a developer SDK

January 24, 2020
Now that Spot is more clever and polite, Boston Dynamics is ready to set it free. The Softbank-owned robotics company announced that it’s making Spot’s SDK available to anyone who wants it via GitHub, starting today. The release will allow developers and…
MobileNews

Samsung to debut AirDrop competitor alongside Galaxy S20, report claims

January 24, 2020
Samsung is developing its own alternative to Apple’s AirDrop file sharing service that will launch with the upcoming Galaxy S20, XDA Developers reports. Screenshots of the feature show that it will work similarly to AirDrop, allowing you to “share instantly with people nearby,” so long as their device has Quick Share turned on. You’ll also be able to restrict who can send you files to…
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