More than $700 million was invested in game startups in the first quarter, though that amount is down from the year-earlier period, according to data collected by Sergei Evdokimov, investment associate at Mail.ru Games Ventures.
It was a big dip, but it’s not bad for a quarter with so much turmoil. In an email to GamesBeat, Evdokimov said we shouldn’t panic about it because lots of game…
Call of Duty: Warzone interview — Why Modern Warfare’s narrative continues with the new season
April 11, 2020
Call of Duty: Warzone is Activision’s most successful post-launch content for a Call of Duty game, with more than 50 million downloads for the free-to-play battle royale mode in just a month.
And yes, I’m one of those players working hard from home. But the latest update…
Two key parts make up the life-sized creatures that appear in Google Search. The first lets you see animals in 3D, while the second — and most delightful — is viewing them in your current space with the ability to take pictures. Here’s what iOS and Android devices…
Highlights is a PDF reader for researchers, now on iPhone, iPad, and Mac as a universal purchase
April 11, 2020
Apple last month officially rolled out support for universal app purchases between iPhone, iPad, and Mac. One of the latest apps to take advantage of this functionality is Highlights, a powerful research-focused PDF reader.
Highlights has been available on the Mac for years, but alongside Apple’s support for cross-platform universal purchases, the app is also now available on iPhone and iPad for…
The latest update for the fanatic Huawei Watch GT2 is now bringing the SpO2 blood oxygen measuring feature to the LiteOS-powered smartwatch.
This update brings feature parity to the late-2019 smartwatch, with the refreshed Huawei Watch GT2e coming with the SpO2 monitoring…
We are just five days away from the launch of Honor’s next flagship phones – the Honor 30-series. And teasers are ramping up, revealing more bits and pieces about the. More importantly, there is evidence that Honor is preparing more than two handsets.
In a…
Google’s new Pixel 4 app uses AI to map your face in 3D
April 11, 2020
Google today released a demo app that visualizes a real-time point cloud from uDepth, the stereo depth sensor built into the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL. As the tech giant explains in a lengthy post, uDepth taps machine learning to identify users while protecting against spoof attacks; it supports a number of features, including post-processing photo retouching and depth-based scene segmentation as…
Microsoft Teams is getting a bunch of new features this year. Robert Aichner, Microsoft Teams group program manager, recently told us how Microsoft is building the most interesting one: real-time noise suppression, which uses machine learning to filter out background noise…
Researchers propose Falcon, a privacy-preserving communication protocol for AI training and inference
April 11, 2020
In an academic paper published this week on the preprint server Arxiv.org, a team of researchers from Princeton, Microsoft, the nonprofit Algorand Foundation, and Technion propose Falcon, an end-to-end framework for secure computation of AI models on distributed systems.
COVID-19 waits for no one, and the speed of its spread has forced the world to act quickly. From world governments to individual households, all of sudden everyone has had to scrap plans, make new ones, and try to hang on to some kind of new normal as the pandemic causes more unexpected and rapid shifts.
Looking at the tech world, it’s been quite a sight to watch everyone move so fast. As I…
