GamingNews

Israel’s Toya creates social games for girls on Roblox

March 11, 2020
Toya is a game studio that makes social games on top of Roblox, but it is different because it is making games with girls and women in mind. Roblox has 115 million monthly active players, and people engage with it more than 1.5 billion hours a month. The top games are getting more than a billion plays, and so it should come as no surprise that startups are forming to make products for this…
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Zynga cofounder builds Gala network for decentralized gaming

March 11, 2020
Blockchain Game Partners is building a blockchain-based infrastructure dubbed Gala to enable games where players own their own content and platforms don’t fleece developers for the games that they create. It’s the brainchild of Eric Schiermeyer, the founder and CEO of…
AI & RoboticsNews

Microsoft researchers create AI ethics checklist with ML practitioners from a dozen tech companies

March 11, 2020
While speaking on a panel recently, Landing AI founder and Google Brain cofounder Andrew Ng described a moment when he read the OECD’s AI ethics principles to an engineer, and the engineer told him the words give no instruction on how he should change how he does his job. That’s why, Ng said, any code of conduct should be designed by and for ML practitioners. Well, Microsoft Research must’ve…
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March Nintendo Direct in the works with focus on 2020 lineup

March 11, 2020
The next Nintendo Direct is in the works. The publisher hasn’t confirmed the event yet, but it’s in the final stages of putting the video presentation together. That’s based on what we’re hearing as well as some other indicators. Expect a Nintendo Direct soon. The…
MobileNews

You can now enroll Google Account security keys on Android and Safari for macOS

March 7, 2020
Google in recent months has expanded and simplified 2-step verification across first-party services. Security keys for Google Accounts can now be enrolled on Android and macOS. The most notable expansion today is for mobile, with all Android 7.0 Nougat and newer devices running Chrome 70+ able to register a USB, Bluetooth, or NFC security key. This added support helps spur adoption of the 2FA…
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How to clean and sanitize your iPhone without damaging it

March 7, 2020
With coronavirus making its way around the world, even if it’s not in your city, you might be thinking about ways to stay healthy. Along with washing your hands regularly, cleaning your iPhone can be an important measure, considering how many places we use them and how they host lots of germs. Let’s take a look at several ways you can clean and sanitize your iPhone without damaging it. A…
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