MobileNews

Chrome for Android will now label ‘fast pages’ and may eventually rank them higher in search

August 18, 2020
Chrome for Android will begin adding “fast page” labels to the context menus of pages it considers high-quality, Google announced Monday. The company says the labels will be based on signals from its Core Web Vitals metrics, which keep track of user experience, including page load time, responsiveness, and how stable content is while it loads. Right now, there’s only one way to tell: if you…
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GamingNews

How ID@Xbox has helped indie devs generate $1.5 billion in revenue

August 18, 2020
On this week’s episode of How Games Make Money, ID@Xbox director Chris Charla joins host Jeff Grubb to talk about publishing indie games. ID@Xbox is Microsoft’s dedicated indie-developer program. And Charla has helped to oversee it since it replaced Xbox Live Arcade in the early days of Xbox One. Now, he is talking about how his team plans to continue helping developers as Microsoft…
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MobileNews

Samsung’s $500 Galaxy A51 5G is coming to AT&T, too

August 18, 2020
Samsung’s $500 Galaxy A51 5G will arrive on AT&T on August 21st, joining T-Mobile (which got the device on August 7th) and Verizon (which got a mmWave-equipped A51 5G UW variant on August 13th). As the name may imply, the A51 5G is the 5G version of the standard $399…
GamingNews

Epic says Apple threatens ‘catastrophic’ response in two weeks if Fortnite doesn’t comply with rules

August 18, 2020
Epic says that Apple has threatened to cut off its access to all iOS and Mac developer tools as retaliation for sneaking a new payment option into Fortnite last week — a stunt that ended in the app being banned from the App Store and Epic filing a blockbuster antitrust lawsuit against Apple, claiming it places illegal restrictions on the distribution of iOS apps. Apple will terminate Epic’s…
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GamingNews

Nintendo will show 20 minutes of indie Switch games tomorrow

August 17, 2020
Although it’s been almost a year since the last full-blown Nintendo Direct, the company has run a number of smaller digital presentations since then. The latest is another Indie World Showcase, which Nintendo will stream at noon ET on Tuesday. It’ll include about 20…
AI & RoboticsNews

Photonics startup Lightmatter details its AI optical accelerator chip

August 17, 2020
Ahead of the Hot Chips conference this week, photonics chip startup Lightmatter revealed the first technical details about its upcoming test chip. Unlike conventional processors and graphics cards, the test chip uses light to send signals, promising orders of magnitude higher performance and efficiency. The technology underpinning the test chip —  photonic integrated circuits — stems from a…
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