GamingNews

Non-electronic sports viewership grows on Twitch

May 11, 2021
Did you miss GamesBeat Summit 2021? Watch on-demand here!  The world has a lot more sports-related content than it can fit onto ESPN, Fox Sports, and AM Radio. And Twitch is helping to pick up that slack. The sports category is growing quickly following its debut in July. That includes nearing 11 million hours watched in April, according to data from Rainmaker.gg. “Twitch has been dabbling in…
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AI & RoboticsNews

IBM’s CodeNet dataset aims to train AI to tackle programming challenges

May 11, 2021
Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. At its Think conference this week, IBM introduced Project CodeNet, which the company claims is the largest open source dataset for benchmarking around AI for code. Consisting of 14 million code examples, 500 million lines of code, and 55 programming languages including C++, Java, Python, Go, COBOL, Pascal, and FORTRAN…
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DefenseNews

The US Navy’s bio-preparedness innovation window remains open through cruise lines

May 11, 2021
COVID-19 demonstrated gaps in the U.S. Navy’s maritime bio-preparedness. Through cruise lines’ struggle for survival, the pandemic will continue to offer a unique test bed for tactics, techniques and procedures, or TTP, as well as technologies to mitigate respiratory pathogens — specifically those passive measures most conducive to defense against bioweapons. The Navy should seize this…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Quick Charge Podcast: May 10, 2021

May 11, 2021
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on…
MobileNews

OnePlus has updated these phones to Android 11

May 11, 2021
OnePlus might have promised the Android 11 update to a number of the firm’s former flagship devices, but just how many have received the latest OS build or when can you expect it to come to your phone? This article will be continuously updated with new devices as…
GamingNews

Roblox hits Q1 bookings of $652.3 million, up 161%, in first report as public company

May 11, 2021
Did you miss GamesBeat Summit 2021? Watch on-demand here!  Roblox, the platform for Lego-like user-generated games, reported its earnings for the first time as a publicly traded company. This met analysts’ expectations. Bookings for the first quarter ended March 31 were $652.3 million, up 161% from the same quarter a year ago. Roblox has done well among its target audience of children and…
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