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IBM’s AI generates new footage from video stills

March 27, 2020
A paper coauthored by researchers at IBM describes an AI system — Navsynth — that generates videos seen during training, as well as unseen videos. While this in and of itself isn’t novel — it’s an acute area of interest for Alphabet’s DeepMind and others — the researchers say the approach produces superior quality videos compared with existing methods. If the claim holds water, their…
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Samsung Galaxy A71 5G photos published by TENAA

March 27, 2020
The Samsung Galaxy A71 5G listing on TENAA has been updated with photos of the device. It shouldn’t surprise you to hear that not much has changed externally. Actually, the dimensions and weight are slightly different, though nothing that you would notice just by…
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Samsung launches Galaxy Tab A 8.4 w/ LTE, 10-hr battery, USB-C, $279

March 25, 2020
Samsung has just announced a brand-new Android tablet for the masses. The new 2020 Samsung Galaxy Tab A 8.4 offers up LTE connectivity, solid battery life, and more all for an affordable price. The 2020 Galaxy Tab A 8.4 is a tablet designed for an affordable price point. Obviously, it offers up an 8.4-inch display which has a resolution of 1920×1200, leaving a 16:10 aspect ratio which should be…
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You can now mirror and control your iPhone on a Dell PC

March 25, 2020
We learned back in January that Dell was working on a feature that would allow you to control your iPhone from one of the company’s Windows PCs, and that ability is now available … If you’re an iPhone user with a modern Dell computer, you can now mirror your phone’s…
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The ending of Doom Eternal

March 25, 2020
I’ll give it to the developers at id Software. They really know how to stretch out an ending. I’ve played through Doom Eternal on the easy setting, and I’ve included two videos of the actual ending in this post. And it feels like he ending goes on for a long time, especially if you die a lot. Now it’s not so bad as Death Stranding’s ending, which involves hours of cinematics. Or at least…
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Doom Eternal has the best launch weekend in franchise history

March 25, 2020
Bethesda announced today that Doom Eternal has had the best launch weekend of any game in the franchise’s history. The publisher did not specify how many copies it sold, but Bethesda did note that the launch weekend doubled the launch weekend revenue for the last entry in…
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Google details MetNet, an AI model better than NOAA at predicting precipitation

March 25, 2020
In a blog post and accompanying paper, researchers at Google detail an AI system — MetNet — that can predict precipitation up to eight hours into the future. They say that it outperforms the current state-of-the-art physics model in use by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and that it makes a prediction over the entire U.S. in seconds as opposed to an hour. It…
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