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Watch Xbox’s X019 event live from London right here

Microsoft is about to drop a shipping container full of Xbox news on your face. The company is in London for its X019 fan gathering, and it’s going to broadcast a special episode of Inside Xbox live from that event. Expect news about Xbox Game Pass, Project xCloud, first-party developers like Obsidian and Rare, and more. So where to watch Xbox’s X019? You can click play below or go to Twitch…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Facebook research suggests pretrained AI models can be easily adapted to new languages

Multilingual masked language modeling involves training an AI model on text from several languages, and it’s a technique that’s been used to great effect. In March, a team introduced an architecture that can jointly learn sentence representations for 93 languages belonging to more than 30 different families. But most previous work in language modeling has investigated cross-lingual transfer…
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MobileNews

Google rolls out next-gen RCS texting to Android users in the US

At long last, you can get next-gen text messaging on your Android phone in the US without vendor-specific support or resorting to unofficial tricks. Google is rolling out Rich Communication Services (RCS) support to Android Messages users across the US. When it arrives…
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How to enable RCS messaging on Google Messages for Android

RCS messaging is finally coming to Android smartphones in the United States after a trial in some other countries. If you want to get in on the action, here’s what you’ll need to do to enable RCS messaging on Android. How to enable RCS on Android Download Google…
AI & RoboticsNews

Google Cloud’s Contact Center AI hits general availability

Google Cloud is making Contact Center AI generally available for use today. The cloud service is built with conversational AI engine Dialogflow to automate interactions with customers in call centers. Contact Center AI contains Virtual Agent to automatically respond to customer queries with voice or text or hand off the conversation to a person when a bot is unable to help a customer. Agent Assist…
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MobileNews

Google’s rollout of RCS chat for Android users in the US

Google is announcing that today, a year and a half after it first unveiled RCS chat as Android’s primary texting platform, it is actually making RCS chat Android’s primary texting platform. That’s because it is rolling out availability to any Android user in the US…
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Rockstar apologizes for buggy Red Dead Redemption 2

Red Dead Redemption 2 was one of the biggest console hits of 2018. After waiting a full year, PC gamers finally got a chance to play the gritty, Western-themed adventure when it was released last week. However, many experienced game-breaking bugs. Rockstar has apologized…
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Razer unveils its Kraken Ultimate headset with THX Spatial Audio

For competitive gamers, 3D audio can make the difference between locating a sneaking enemy and getting taken down by a well-aimed shot. Razer’s gaming headsets have primarily used 7.1 surround sound for 3D audio in the past, but now the company is expanding its range of competitive gaming headsets using THX Spatial Audio with the launch of the Razer Kraken Ultimate. THX Spatial Audio is a…
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