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'The Outer Worlds' comes to Nintendo Switch on March 6th

January 30, 2020
The Switch version of The Outer Worlds at last has a concrete release date: March 6th. Obsidian’s RPG will arrive on Nintendo’s console several months after it debuted on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The space-set game earned plenty of plaudits last year, though it drew mixed reactions for its relatively short length for a single-player RPG. Some players completed it in less than…
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GamesBeat Decides 137: Google Stadia is already failing

January 30, 2020
On this week’s episode of the GamesBeat Decides podcast, PC gaming editor Jeffrey Grubb and review editor Mike Minotti are skeptical that Google Stadia has a future. The crew also talks about what they would want from a Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic reboot. Also, if you need to set precedent in your country, don’t try to do so by suing Nintendo. The spirit of Howard Lincoln will come…
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How would you score IKEA’s Sonos-powered smart speaker?

January 30, 2020
We’ve reviewed a lot of products on Engadget, from drones to automobiles, but the Sonos-powered SYMFONISK were the first IKEA products we’ve officially ranked and scored. The two models of speakers — one that doubles as a lamp and the other designed to sit…
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GMC will revive the Hummer as a 1,000HP electric truck

January 30, 2020
The rumors of GM resurrecting the Hummer were on the mark. Its GMC brand has teased the rebirth of the Hummer as an all-electric truck, with a full reveal due on May 20th. The company isn’t showing much of the EV at this stage, but it’s already willing to brag. It estimates that the new Hummer will have up to 1,000HP, a peak 11,500lb/ft of torque and a 0-60MPH time of around 3 seconds.
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AI & RoboticsNews

Amazon details AI that answers questions more reliably

January 30, 2020
Might natural language models improve in their ability to answer questions on the fly? That’s what a team of Amazon researchers set out to answer in a study scheduled to be presented at the 2020 Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in New York. They…
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Google researchers release audit framework to close AI accountability gap

January 30, 2020
Researchers associated with Google and the Partnership on AI have created a framework to help companies and their engineering teams audit AI systems before deploying them. The framework, intended to add a layer of quality assurance to businesses launching AI, translates into practice values often espoused in AI ethics principles and tackles an accountability gap authors say exists in corporate AI…
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