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Corinna Kopf is the latest top streamer to jump to Facebook Gaming

December 27, 2019
Facebook still isn’t done snapping up big-name Twitch streamers. Corinna Kopf, who’s also known for her YouTube presence, is switching to Facebook Gaming for livestreams. Her first stream on the service will take place December 30th at 7PM Eastern. She explained the move as “expanding [her] gaming career,” and saw Facebook as a place that “empowers” both her as a woman gamer and her…
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Ubisoft uses AI to teach a car to drive itself in a racing game

December 27, 2019
Reinforcement learning, an AI training technique that employs rewards to drive software policies toward goals, has been applied successfully to domains from industrial robotics to drug discovery. But while firms including OpenAI and Alphabet’s DeepMind have investigated…
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How Twitch started to lose its grip on video game streaming

December 26, 2019
For the longest time, Twitch was the undisputed champ of video game live streaming. The Amazon-owned platform has the highest number of ‘broadcasters’ and, more importantly, viewers watching, chatting and donating in real-time. For most full-time streamers, switching to…
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Researchers want to use Mega Man 2 to evaluate AI

December 26, 2019
Games have long served as a training ground for AI algorithms, and not without good reason. Games — particularly video games — provide challenging environments against which to benchmark autonomous systems. In 2013, a team of researchers introduced the Arcade Learning Environment, a collection of over 55 Atari 2600 games designed to test a broad range of AI techniques. More recently, San…
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'Fallout 76' hackers wiped out players' inventories

December 24, 2019
If you play Fallout 76 you might want to avoid public servers for a while. According to multiple posts on the game’s Reddit forums — and confirmed by publisher Bethesda — hackers have attacked public servers and wiped out the inventories of more than a few players. A…
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Facebook Gaming releases Pokémon Tower Battle and Pokémon Medallion Battle as instant games

December 24, 2019
Facebook Gaming is announcing that it is releasing two new games, Pokémon Tower Battle and Pokémon Medallion Battle, on its Instant Games platform. This marks the first time The Pokémon Company has created games for Facebook Gaming, and both were built on the Instant Games platform. Pokémon Tower Battle launches worldwide today and is available in the Facebook Gaming tab and bookmark on…
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CDC: Vitamin E acetate is 'closely associated’ with vaping lung injuries

December 20, 2019
For months, the CDC has warned people against vaping until it could determine the cause of a mysterious vaping-related lung injury. Now, the CDC confirms speculation that vitamin E acetate is “closely associated” with EVALI, or e-cigarette, or vaping, product use-associated lung injury. A new clinical study analyzed samples from 51 EVALI patients and a comparison group of 99…
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