MobileNews

Vivaldi browser for Android out of beta w/ native ad blocking and tracking protection

Vivaldi is now officially out of beta on Android, with one of the most customizable desktop browsers based upon Chromium available as a stable release on mobile. Announced in an official blog post, the browser might be of interest to those of you out there thanks to some of the privacy and protection features. Many of the popular features that Vivaldi desktop users have come to know and love are…
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GamingNews

Steam’s top 20 new games for March 2020

Valve Software is updating everyone about the top new releases on its Steam PC digital platform. Steam’s March 2020 once again illustrates its global reach. The games in the top 20 (and top 5 new free releases) come from 14 different countries. This ensures the developers…
AI & RoboticsNews

Granulate raises $12 million to optimize server performance with AI

Granulate, a startup developing a platform that optimizes computing infrastructure in real time, today announced that it raised $12 million, bringing its total raised to date to $15.6 million. The company’s products could reduce the time engineers spend fine-tuning the performance of enterprise systems, freeing them up to pursue more creative and impactful projects. Granulate’s eponymous…
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AI & RoboticsNews

StereoSet measures racism, sexism, and other forms of bias in AI language models

AI researchers from MIT, Intel, and Canadian AI initiative CIFAR have found high levels of stereotypical bias from some of the most popular pretrained models like Google’s BERT and XLNet, OpenAI’s GPT-2, and Facebook’s RoBERTa. The analysis was performed as part of the launch of StereoSet, a data set, challenge, leaderboard, and set of metrics for evaluating racism, sexism, and stereotypes…
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GamingNews

Steam’s new experiment is improving search results in the game store

Valve revealed today that its latest Steam Labs experiment is optimizing its digital gaming store’s search engine. Steam is the world’s largest digital PC store. It’s important that its users can easily discover new games, both for Valve and the publishers that use Steam. Right now, Steam can be a bit front-loaded. The games that are hits are big hits, while many more titles go unnoticed.
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