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Gaming industry TV ad spend is rising — blame Tom Nook

April 13, 2020
Even with much of the U.S. economy shutting down due to the coronavirus pandemic, the gaming sector upped its advertising outlay for television to an estimated $17.3 million in March—$5.3 million more than February’s spend. As we’ve previously mentioned, gaming could be an economic bright spot with millions of Americans staying home. GamesBeat has partnered with iSpot.tv, the always-on TV ad…
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GamingNews

Call of Duty: Warzone interview — Why Modern Warfare’s narrative continues with the new season

April 11, 2020
Call of Duty: Warzone is Activision’s most successful post-launch content for a Call of Duty game, with more than 50 million downloads for the free-to-play battle royale mode in just a month. And yes, I’m one of those players working hard from home. But the latest update threw me for a loop. The stand-alone download, set in the rebooted universe of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, is also unique…
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MobileNews

Huawei Watch GT2 update brings SpO2 blood oxygen measurement feature

April 11, 2020
The latest update for the fanatic Huawei Watch GT2 is now bringing the SpO2 blood oxygen measuring feature to the LiteOS-powered smartwatch. This update brings feature parity to the late-2019 smartwatch, with the refreshed Huawei Watch GT2e coming with the SpO2 monitoring option as standard (via HuaweiBlog.de). For those wondering, the SpO2 monitoring option lets you track your blood oxygen…
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AI & RoboticsNews

ProBeat: Microsoft Teams video calls and the ethics of invisible AI

April 11, 2020
Microsoft Teams is getting a bunch of new features this year. Robert Aichner, Microsoft Teams group program manager, recently told us how Microsoft is building the most interesting one: real-time noise suppression, which uses machine learning to filter out background noise during calls. Because the feature isn’t final, we also had a secondary discussion about the user experience. It’s one…
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