GamingNews

Roblox bookings grow 35% to $665.5M for Q2 2021

August 17, 2021
A new GamesBeat event is around the corner! Learn more about what comes next.  Roblox, the platform for Lego-like user-generated games, reported its bookings for the second quarter ended June 30 were $665.5 million, up 35% from the same period a year ago. The San Mateo company reported a net loss of $140.1 million on revenues of $454.1 million (up 127%) for the second quarter. The results fell…
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AI & RoboticsNews

What to expect from OpenAI’s Codex API

August 17, 2021
The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! This article is part of our series that explores the business of artificial intelligence OpenAI will make Codex, its AI programmer technology, available…
MobileNews

iOS 15 lets you turn off iPhone camera’s Night Mode feature (and keep it off)

August 17, 2021
Apple introduced a major photography upgrade to iOS in 2019 with Night Mode on the iPhone 11. Extremely low light shots that would otherwise be lost to the limits of small camera sensors instantly became shareable. Except, some shots aren’t so post-worthy with Night Mode applied to the camera… I mentioned this challenge in my initial review of the iPhone 11 camera: Night Mode isn’t magic.
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MobileNews

Yik Yak for iOS is back after a four-year hiatus

August 17, 2021
Do you remember the summer of 2016 when Pokémon GO was a fever, and everyone was outside without thinking about masks? Well, this was also when the Yik Yak app was available, and after four years gone, it’s now back on the App Store iPhone users in the US. YIK YAK IS…
MobileNews

Android 12 Beta 4: Hands-on with yet more new features [Video]

August 17, 2021
It’s hard to do justice to each incremental Android 12 Beta update, but Beta 4 added some notable features that we missed in our initial hands-on sweep. Without getting bogged down in the details, Android 12 Beta 4 will likely be among the last before we see the full release, which will probably be within the next six weeks. Tons of bugs and problems have been ironed out since we first…
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MobileNews

Google Contacts is the first big Material You redesign with Dynamic Color, UI tweaks [Updated]

August 17, 2021
Material You can be seen in various parts of the system on Android 12. The next big step for the company’s new design language is app updates, and that started with Google Camera seeing some tweaks this month. Google Contacts is now the inaugural first-party app to get a sizable Material You redesign. Update 8/16: Just over two weeks after the Google Contacts Material You redesign started…
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