GamingNews

Apple starts selling Microsoft’s Xbox controller after adding support in iOS, macOS, and tvOS

October 9, 2019
Apple has begun selling Microsoft’s Xbox Wireless Controller after adding support for the gamepad in the latest major software updates for iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, and the Mac. The Xbox controller is priced at $59.95 and is available from Apple’s website. I’m not seeing any local stores with stock just yet, but it’s not unreasonable to think that Apple might give it some shelf space to…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Rasa’s conversational AI can selectively ignore bits of dialogue to improve its responses

October 9, 2019
What might be the key to chatbots or voice-enabled assistants that respond in more natural, human-like ways? Researchers at Rasa, a Berlin, Germany-based startup developing a standard infrastructure layer for conversational AI, believe selective attention might play an outsized role. In a preprint paper published this week on Arxiv.org, they detail a system that can selectively ignore or attend to…
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MobileNews

Windows 10 Preview adds ability to take calls from your Android phone

October 9, 2019
The latest Windows 10 Preview build has enabled the ability to take calls from your Android phone right on your desktop. Initially announced in August at Samsung Unpacked as an exclusive for Samsung phones, the feature is now available to anyone running the Windows 10 Insider Preview build 18999, with a compatible Android phone. This could be the very start of tighter integration between your…
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