AI & RoboticsNews

Researchers apply developmental psychology to AI model that predicts object relationships

February 27, 2020
Humans have no trouble recognizing objects and reasoning about their behaviors — it’s at the core of their cognitive development. Even as children, they group segments into objects based on motion and use concepts of object permanence, solidity, and continuity to explain what has happened and imagine what would happen in other scenarios. Inspired by this, a team of researchers hailing from the…
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GamingNews

Roblox raises $150 million round led by Andreessen Horowitz

February 27, 2020
Online gaming platform Roblox has raised $150 million in funding in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz’s late stage venture fund. It seems the folks at Andreessen Horowitz have been playing a lot of user-generated games on Roblox, like Work at a Pizza Place or Meep City…
GamingNews

The creator of the Konami Code has died

February 26, 2020
Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a and start. It’s the most famous cheat code in all of gaming, and now its creator, former Konami employee Kazuhisa Hashimoto, has died. He was 61-years-old. Konami confirmed the death on Wednesday, saying on Twitter…
AI & RoboticsNews

Facial recognition startup Clearview AI says its full client list was stolen

February 26, 2020
You might expect a high-profile (and controversial) facial recognition startup like Clearview AI would have its data locked down, but it turns out it’s just as vulnerable as almost any other company to malicious individuals. In a notification obtained by The Daily Beast, the company says a recent vulnerability allowed someone to gain “unauthorized access” to a list of all of…
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MobileNews

Could you live with this budget Android for four years?

February 26, 2020
Five years ago, Sharad Mittal had a dilemma. He and his wife had just watched , a movie starring Russell Crowe with a heavy environmental message underneath its retelling of the classic Biblical tale. The movie moved him deeply, giving him a new perspective of the world that he says literally changed his life. “I became a hardcore environmentalist that day,” he told Engadget. At the…
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MobileNews

LG V60 ThinQ 5G hands-on: Two screens, not enough polish

February 26, 2020
LG’s smartphone business spent most of last year struggling to turn a profit, but the company has found at least one strategy it wants to stick with. Instead of giving people unpolished, unproven, expensive foldables, it starting building phones you could attach…
MobileNews

Apple releasing third developer beta of iOS 13.4 and more today

February 26, 2020
Apple today is releasing the third developer beta of iOS 13.4 and iPadOS 13.4. This update comes a week after the second release of iOS 13.4 for developers. iOS 13.4 includes new features like iCloud Drive folder sharing and much more. Update: The third developer betas of…
MobileNews

LG V60 ThinQ 5G hands-on roundup: Iterative improvements, not ‘wow factor’

February 26, 2020
Today, LG announced the latest in their V series of Android enthusiast phones, the absolute mouthful that is the LG V60 ThinQ 5G, and gave some reviewers special early access to the phone to compensate for the cancellation of MWC 2020. From what we’ve seen in hands-on takes so far though, the LG V60 doesn’t improve enough on last year’s equally dual-screened V50. LG has been floundering in…
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