GamingNews

Why Call of Duty: Modern Warfare has torture, child combat, and shooting unarmed women

October 25, 2019
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare has some of the most difficult scenes I have ever seen in a video game. When I saw a couple of the scenes during a preview in May, I felt like they went too far. The violence made me more than uncomfortable. Now that I’ve played the full game (here is my full review), I would add another scene: the waterboarding of a freedom fighter by Russian captors. Taken by…
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GamingNews

Watch Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’s most gut-wrenching scenes

October 25, 2019
You can’t unsee some of the brutal scenes in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, this year’s first-person combat game from Infinity Ward and Activision. If you don’t want to see them or even get a mental picture of them, stop right here. Infinity Ward’s leaders have said they have tried to make a game that makes players both uncomfortable and makes them think. They say the game’s violence…
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AI & RoboticsNews

How to succeed with AI and machine learning at scale

October 25, 2019
Presented by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (BlueData) You’ve heard all the great benefits that AI can provide for enterprises today. From detecting fraud to predicting machine failure to understanding customer behavior — AI has the potential to deliver game-changing…
MobileNews

YouTube Music 3.39 for Android adds homescreen widget

October 25, 2019
As we’ve been expecting since early August, YouTube Music now has a homescreen widget. Available with version 3.39, it’s quite straightforward and actually looks like the one from Play Music. This update to Google’s primary streaming service lets you add a widget to the Android homescreen. By default it’s 4×1, but looks better at 5×1 to span the full width of a screen. While it can be…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Google researchers taught an AI to recognize smells

October 24, 2019
The researchers created a data set of nearly 5,000 molecules identified by perfumers, who labeled the molecules with descriptions ranging from “buttery” to “tropical” and “weedy.” The team used about two-thirds of the data set to train its AI (a graph neural network or GNN) to associate molecules with the descriptors they often receive. The researchers then used…
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