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Report: Apple rejecting coronavirus iOS apps that aren’t from ‘recognized institutions’

March 6, 2020
Apple is taking a firm stance against coronavirus applications that aren’t from “recognized institutions,” a new report from CNBC says. According to the report, Apple is trying to prevent the spread of misinformation with this policy. For the report, spoke to four independent developers who had applications related to coronavirus rejected from the App Store. The applications in question…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Microsoft’s AI generates 3D objects from 2D images

March 6, 2020
The AI research labs at Facebook, Nvidia, and startups like Threedy.ai have at various points tried their hand at the challenge of 2D-object-to-3D-shape conversion. But in a new preprint paper, a team hailing from Microsoft Research detail a framework that they claim is the…
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Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous — Adapting a tabletop RPG campaign for a PC game

March 6, 2020
Whenever I think of adapting tabletop role-playing campaigns to a PC game, my mind goes to Temple of Elemental Evil. It’s one of the seminal modules of Dungeons & Dragons, and in 2003, Troika Games released a near 1-to-1 conversion of it as a PC game. And boy, did it have problems beyond bugs despite having all the bones of a fantastic RPG and being one of the best adaptations of the…
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Project Sandcastle brings Android to older iPhone models w/ more promised soon

March 5, 2020
If you ever wanted to run Android on an iPhone — we don’t know why either — then thanks to Project Sandcastle, you can. Just yesterday we saw that there is a way to run the checkra1n jailbreak on Android to jailbreak your iOS devices. With that in mind, why not go the whole hog and run Android on an iPhone? It’s not something we’d ever suggest doing, but at present, if you have an iPhone…
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Google Stadia is rolling out 4K streaming on the web

March 5, 2020
Google is finally fulfilling a key promise for Stadia by rolling out 4K gaming on the web, according to 9to5Google and several Reddit users. You’ll need a Stadia Pro subscription and fast internet connection to use the feature, with Google specifying a minimum “excellent” connection over 35Mbps. However, 9to5Google reports that it was able to get 4K working with…
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