GamingNews

Readers share their fondest memories of the original Xbox

January 17, 2020
Think back to 2001: Lifehouse’s ‘Hanging by a Moment’ was (inexplicably) the number one song. NASA launched the Genesis space probe. Enron filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring was released in theaters. The first click-wheel iPod went on sale. And Microsoft released the first video game console made by an American company since…
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AI & RoboticsNews

World Economic Forum launches toolkit to help corporate boards build AI-first companies

January 17, 2020
The value of building data-driven businesses with AI at their core is well known today, and business executives are rushing to implement the technology into their operations and gain a competitive advantage, but it’s not as simple as creating a data lake and creating AI models. A large number of AI companies attempting to implement more AI models or build AI-first businesses have experienced…
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AI & RoboticsNews

SenseTime’s AI generates realistic deepfake videos

January 17, 2020
Deepfakes — media that takes a person in an existing image, audio recording, or video and replaces them with someone else’s likeness — are becoming increasingly convincing. In late 2019, researchers at Seoul-based Hyperconnect developed a tool (MarioNETte) that could…
GamingNews

Steam might be coming to Chromebooks

January 17, 2020
Google is reportedly working to bring Steam to Chromebooks. Kan Liu, director of product management for Google’s Chrome OS, shared the news with Android Police. Unfortunately, Liu didn’t reveal a timeline or share which games might be available. On Chromebooks…
MobileNews

Android users can now experience the joy of being negged by Co—Star

January 17, 2020
Today I am going to get to the bottom of things and take myself out to dinner because I have an Android phone and there is finally an Android version of the popular Co—Star astrology app. The FOMO can now come to an end for Android users who have not been able to get the often snarky, always meme-ready insights from one of the most popular iOS lifestyle apps. The app launched today after much…
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MobileNews

Dramatic chart shows why most graphics underrepresent iPhone growth

January 17, 2020
iPhone growth is usually depicted in charts like the one on the above left. It looks impressive, but chartmeister Jason Snell argues that it underrepresents the true rate of growth … Generally with graphs like this, the creator picks a convenient format and then scales the numbers to fit. That can, however, sometimes create a very misleading impression. A classic problem — sometimes…
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