GamingNews

PUBG comes to Google Stadia

April 28, 2020
Google revealed during today’s Stadia Connect video presentation that PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is now available for the cloud gaming platform. The Stadia version of PUBG, the Pioneer Edition, will cost $40. It is free for Stadia Pro users. It includes the base game and the Cold Front Survivor Pass, along with a Stadia skin set. PUBG launched in 2018, and it helped ignite the battle royale…
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AI & RoboticsNews

BrainBox raises $8.59 million to optimize HVAC systems with AI

April 28, 2020
Autonomous building tech startup BrainBox AI today announced the closure of a $12 million Canadian (~$8.59 million)  convertible debt round, which it plans to put toward expansion in North America (particularly its home market of Canada) and international markets like the U.K., Ireland, and Australia. The cash infusion comes as companies unaffected by shelter-in-place orders aim to head off the…
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AI & RoboticsNews

MIT presents AI frameworks that compress models and encourage agents to explore

April 28, 2020
In a pair of papers accepted to the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2020, MIT researchers investigated new ways to motivate software agents to explore their environment and pruning algorithms to make AI apps run faster. Taken together, the twin approaches could foster the development of autonomous industrial, commercial, and home machines that require less computation…
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MobileNews

Hulu app crashing for many iPhone and Apple TV users

April 28, 2020
The Hulu app is crashing today for many Apple device owners as the service experiences unexpected outage for iPhone, iPad and Apple TV users. The most common symptom of the problem is that the Hulu app simply crashes to the home screen. However, readers who are able to get…
MobileNews

Unlocked OnePlus 8 and 8 Pro face connectivity issues on Verizon

April 28, 2020
The new OnePlus duo doesn’t officially launch in the US until tomorrow, but some already received their pre-orders. However, those that intended to run their new phone on Verizon’s network are faced with compatibility issues. The phones require something called “CDMA-less” mode to operate on the carrier, but that can’t be activated – Verizon’s network has a whitelist of allowed devices and…
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