This week, the White House released 10 AI Principles, intended as guidance for federal agencies while they consider how to appropriately regulate AI in the private sector. It’s an effort to reduce AI’s potential harms, which have come under scrutiny all over the world, while maintaining the maximum benefits to society. The industry has been awaiting this moment amid lingering uncertainty…
Obama-era tech advisors list potential challenges for the White House’s AI principles
January 13, 2020
Former Obama administration advisors say the White House regulatory AI principles announced this week are a good start in many ways, but they’re incorrect in their oversimplified mandate to avoid overregulation of private business use, and that the Trump administration…
Forget backward compatibility — Xbox One is ‘forward compatible’
January 13, 2020
I should be upfront and honest with you. I’m writing this story to say that I called it. What did I call? That Xbox One has forward compatibility with the next-gen Xbox. I said that on some random GamesBeat Decides podcast months ago, and I’ve definitely mentioned it on…
Nintendo is exploring ways to use AR
January 13, 2020
We might see new Nintendo AR experiences in the near future, perhaps either on the company’s Switch handheld (maybe something like its VR Labo kit) or on mobile.
Speaking in a recent interview with Nikkei (as reported by TweakTown), Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa said that AR is “one of the many aspects we are interested in.”
“Our hardware development teams evaluate all kinds…
19 Valve Index and SteamVR games to watch in 2020
January 13, 2020
It’s a new year and there are a heap of upcoming Valve Index games to look forward to.
Valve’s premium VR headset emerged as arguably the best device on the market in 2019. Its launch was propped up with hundreds of existing SteamVR games to experience all over again…
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX is coming to Switch
January 13, 2020
Nintendo announced today during its latest Direct broadcast that a remake of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team is coming to Switch on March 6.
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX also has a demo releasing for Switch today. Yup, today, so you can try it for…
Brazil is emerging as a world-class AI innovation hub
January 13, 2020
Brazil’s government has big plans for AI, despite having come late to the party. In Oxford Insights’ AI Readiness Index 2019, Brazil was ranked 40 out of 192 countries, a sign that the South American powerhouse is moving up in the AI world. The report looks at how ready countries are to take advantage of the AI technologies PwC forecasts will add $15 trillion to the global economy by 2030.
The…
LG’s past few years in the smartphone market have been less than impressive and it seems things are just getting worse. At CES 2020, though, one LG chief vowed that the company’s mobile division would turn a profit by next year.
Looking back at the past few years, LG has…
LG G9 case renders leak, confirming the design
January 9, 2020
Renders of a transparent case for the LG G9 have leaked, perfectly matching the OnLeaks renders. However, there may have been some confusion this might actually be the LG V60 (the back panel of which we saw yesterday).
Either way, chances are that the G9 and V60 will…
Cyber risk, which commonly refers to any risk of financial loss, disruption, or damage to the reputation of an organization resulting from the failure of its systems, is one of the top five concerns among IT teams, according to a Microsoft survey. That’s not surprising considering that the average cost of a cyber attack was $1.1 million in 2018, an increase of 52% from 2017.
It’s with this in…
