MobileNews

Report: Apple begins trial production of iPhone 9

February 1, 2020
Apple just reported strong iPhone sales for the last quarter of 2019 and even with all that success, there are Apple users who would still love to have a smaller iPhone with a home button. Rumors of a successor to the iPhone SE have been going on for years, but this year’s rumors about a possible iPhone 9 (with the design of the iPhone 6, 7, and 8) have been abundant. Today’s report from cited…
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MobileNews

Twitter adds threaded replies to iOS to make it easier to see ongoing conversations

February 1, 2020
Twitter announced a subtle design change to its iOS app today that may go a long way in both making conversations easier to parse and to join. The change, which looks like it’s a change on Twitter’s end that does not require an update, is to the threading feature in the Twitter timeline, which currently does a poor job of differentiating between standard tweets and replies. The update now…
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GamingNews

Wizards of the Coast teams with ex-BioWare devs on a sci-fi RPG

January 31, 2020
Magic: The Gathering creator Wizards of the Coast has shared new details about the video game studio it’s building in Austin. The subsidiary is called Archetype Entertainment and its first project is a role-playing game set in a new sci-fi universe. Archetype says its…
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Xbox Adaptive Controller add-on turns power wheelchairs into joysticks

January 31, 2020
The Xbox Adaptive Controller is one of the most powerful devices for enabling anyone to play games despite differences in how their body functions. But a lot of the capabilities of the Adaptive Controller come its expandability. And one of the best examples of that is the new Freedom Wing Adapter that turns a power wheelchair into a working game controller. Freedom Wing is a small box that serves…
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AI & RoboticsNews

With Google’s Meena, are AI assistants about to get a lot smarter?

January 31, 2020
Last year, we got to see coherent, multi-paragraph text generated by OpenAI’s GPT-2 model. This week, a new paper from Google AI showed that a chatbot based on a gigantic neural network and huge amounts of data can hold coherent conversations, maintaining context over multiple turns and conversing on just about any topic. The chatbot is called Meena, and it’s even able to invent jokes (see…
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