GamingNews

Nexon Korea grants game developers 6.8% raise in deal with union

February 6, 2020
Nexon Korea has announced it has agreed to give a 6.8% wage increase to the labor union representing the company’s employees. The union, dubbed Starting Point, said it reached a tentative agreement with management to raise the average work wage for 2020. The Korea Herald said it was the first time that a South Korean game company had announced a wage hike publicly. The move will likely be…
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MobileNews

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip rumors: Everything we know so far

February 6, 2020
Last year Samsung was able to keep a lid on the Galaxy Fold until the final hours before the Unpacked 2019 event. This time around we know quite a bit more on the rumor front ahead of the launch of the Galaxy Z Flip — the firms second-generation foldable. When you look at…
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Google Translate 6.5 starts rolling out Android dark mode following iOS debut

February 6, 2020
Google Translate is a very powerful tool, and a popular app on both Android devices and iOS, too. Now, it looks like Google is rolling out dark mode support for Google Translate on both platforms. With Google Translate v6.5, some users are reporting dark mode on Android devices. This seems to be a server-side switch, as we’ve been unable to spot the dark theme live on our devices following the…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Google tells facial recognition startup Clearview AI to stop scraping photos

February 5, 2020
Following Twitter, Google and YouTube have become the latest companies to send a cease-and-desist letter to Clearview AI, the startup behind a controversial facial recognition program that more than 600 police departments across North American use. Clearview came under scrutiny earlier this year when The New York Times showed that the company had been scraping billions of images on the…
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MobileNews

Netflix starts streaming AV1 on Android to save cellular data

February 5, 2020
Netflix announced today that it’s beginning to stream video using AV1 on Android. This high-performance, royalty-free codec provides 20% improved compression efficiency over VP9. Developed by the Alliance for Open Media, founding members include Google, Netflix, and…
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Apple enables universal purchases for Mac and iOS apps

February 5, 2020
Apple’s Catalyst apps were designed to help bridge software between its macOS and iOS platforms, and now the company is taking things a step further by enabling universal purchases between the two platforms, as spotted in Apple’s Xcode 11.4 beta by developer Steve Troughton-Smith on Twitter. In other words, if developers choose to enable it, customers who buy the Mac App Store version of an…
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