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Microsoft is adding 10 'Final Fantasy' games to Xbox Game Pass

November 14, 2019
Earlier today, Microsoft announced that it’s adding more than 50 new games to Xbox Game Pass — as well as giving three sweet freebies if you sign up for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. By any measure, that’s a lot of games, but it’s an especially exciting crop if you’re a fan of Japanese role-playing series Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts. With the blessing of Square…
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MobileNews

Google antitrust probe into search and Android businesses

November 14, 2019
The 50 attorneys general investigating Google for potential antitrust violations are expected to expand their probe and examine the company’s Android and search businesses, not just its advertising practices, CNBC reported on Thursday. Last September, nearly every…
AI & RoboticsNews

IBM’s Lambada AI generates training data for text classifiers

November 14, 2019
What’s a data scientist to do if they lack sufficient data to train a machine learning model? One potential avenue is synthetic data generation, which researchers at IBM Research advocate in a newly published preprint paper. They used a pretrained machine learning model to artificially synthesize new labeled data for text classification tasks. They claim that their method, which they refer to…
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Wasteland 3 will launch May 19 on PC and Xbox One

November 14, 2019
InXile Entertainmet’s final announced project from before last year’s acquisition by Microsoft finally has a release date — Wasteland 3 is coming out May 19 for PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Game Pass. The studio made the announcement at Microsoft’s X019 event in London…
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Project xCloud streaming tech is coming to Xbox Game Pass in 2020

November 14, 2019
Microsoft detailed its plans for the future of Project xCloud today as part of its X019 presentation in London. The Xbox game-streaming tech is already in preview, and that test is getting more than 50 new games for people to try. But Microsoft also revealed that it’s going to add streaming as an option for everyone in the Xbox ecosystem. Project xCloud boss Kareem Choundry explained the…
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Rare's next Xbox game is pure 'Princess Mononoke'

November 14, 2019
If isn’t your bag, how about a sumptuous cel-shaded game from Rare that looks like a lost Miyazaki film? The Microsoft studio announced Everwild today during the XO19 Inside Xbox presentation, and while there aren’t many details to run with, it certainly looks intriguing. The trailer shows us a gorgeous world filled with fantasy creatures and human-like characters tentatively…
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