GamingNews

'PUBG' season 5 will have throwable items and weapons

October 16, 2019
Season 5 of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is about to get underway, and PUBG Corp has offered some details on what’s in store. One of the bigger additions is spike traps, which you can place in the path of an enemy car to pop the tires. You’ll be able to throw items to your teammates as well. That should come in handy when you’re in the midst of a firefight and you’re…
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MobileNews

Beamo is an affordable, compact CO2 laser cutter and engraver

October 16, 2019
Yes, a laser cutter/engraver. Definitely not our the usual stuff we cover but this one is exciting enough so we felt we should share with any tinkerers or artistic types among you. Flux – the company that originally gathered quite a bit of attention for the sub $1000 Delta personal 3D printer is now trying its best to bring quality laser tech to the masses as well. Much like its existing…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Facebook’s ReAgent is a toolkit for reinforcement learning and reasoning AI

October 16, 2019
Facebook AI Research today introduced ReAgent, a reinforcement learning toolkit for building decision-making AI that can receive feedback. ReAgent can assign scores to user actions and treat user input such as clicking on recommended content as training data. ReAgent is a small C++ library available for download on GitHub designed to be embedded in any application. The toolkit comes with a set of…
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GamingNews

Twitch CEO Emmett Shear on how moderation creates communities

October 16, 2019
At this year’s TwitchCon in San Diego — a celebratory, over-the-top affair that brought in streamers and fans from all over the world — I sat down with Twitch CEO Emmett Shear who co-founded the first iteration of the site and who’s been steering the ship ever since…
AI & RoboticsNews

Apply now to speak at Transform 2020, the premiere AI event for business leaders

October 16, 2019
VB’s Transform is the most important AI event of the year for business and technical leaders, and it’s earned that reputation because of the quality of our content and the caliber of speakers. Transform 2020 takes place July 15-16 in San Francisco, and the application to be a part of its stellar roster is now open. We’re looking for AI practitioners who have real-world experience with AI-…
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