Nintendo says it has no plans to release a new model of its hybrid home/handheld Switch system this year. But president Shuntaro Furukawa said something similar in an interview in January 2019, and then company launched the Switch Lite in September. But even if the next Switch revision isn’t coming this holiday, the company probably has another Switch in the works.
Switch is selling well for…
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…
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…
DarwinAI wants to help identify coronavirus in x-rays, but radiologists aren’t convinced
March 25, 2020
Canadian startup DarwinAI and researchers from the University of Waterloo are open-sourcing COVID-Net, a convolutional neural network made for detecting COVID-19 in x-ray imagery. Since coronavirus emerged as a threat to people around the world, a global community of healthcare and AI researchers have produced a number of AI systems for identifying COVID-19 in CT scans.
Companies from Alibaba to…
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…
Last week Xiaomi announced that it will launch the Mi 10 in India on March 31, but the company has now announced that the launch has been postponed until further notice due to the COVID-19 outbreak in the country.
This decision comes after Indian Prime Minister Mr. Narendra…
In a study published this week on the preprint server Arxiv.org, Google and University of California, Berkely researchers propose a framework that combines learning-based perception with model-based controls to enable wheeled robots to autonomously navigate around obstacles. They say it generalizes well to avoiding unseen buildings and humans in both simulation and real-world environments and that…
Thanks to the recent OxygenOS Open Beta program, the new Instant Translation feature is now available for the OnePlus 7 series and 7T series.
While it has come bundled with the latest beta update for the flagship devices, OnePlus is now seeking beta testers to thoroughly put…
An upcoming version of the YouTube app for Android will let you set a preferred video quality for streaming. This feature was discovered in APK version 15.12.33 and given the all-caps “BETA” notes next to the new toggles, it seems that there might be a few bugs…
With the Honor 30S announcement drawing near (March 30), the company decided to tease the device a little. And the flagship-grade ISP is the center of attention.
It’s officially confirmed that the Honor 30S will launch with Kirin 820 on board, which happens to be a pretty capable chipset, at least according to these leaked benchmark results.
But raw performance isn’t the only…
