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December 13, 2019
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PSA: RCS, the successor to SMS, is now live for all US Android users
December 13, 2019
In November, Google said that it was starting to roll out RCS Chat, the successor to SMS, as Android’s primary texting platform, and as of Monday, if you are an Android user on any carrier in the US, you should now be able to use it — though you may need to update your…
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iTunes Remote iOS app updated w/ Dark Mode and improved support for Music and TV apps in macOS Catalina
December 13, 2019
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Zynga starts a new racing game studio in United Kingdom
December 13, 2019
Mobile gaming publisher Zynga has announced the opening of a new studio located in the heart of Birmingham, United Kingdom, which will add to its long-standing racing division at NaturalMotion.
Zynga didn’t say what game this new dev house would make, but the company said…
GamesBeat Decides 133: Xbox Series X reactions, NPD, and more
December 13, 2019
No matter how many cops the government sends after us, we’re gonna keep playing games. And you can hear us talk about our game crimes on this week’s episode of the GamesBeat Decides podcast. Join us, won’t you?
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In the news, we go over Sony State of Play, Nintendo’s World of Indies, and The Game Awards.
AI Weekly: NeurIPS proves machine learning at scale is hard
December 13, 2019
The world’s largest AI research conference is underway in Vancouver, Canada. Researchers are presenting more than 1,400 papers at the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) conference, ranging from work that organizers believe has had the greatest impact over the…
Google Maps for Android testing full bottom bar redesign
December 13, 2019
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Vergecast: Apple’s expensive Mac Pro, gadgets of the decade, and Twitter’s project Bluesky
December 13, 2019
Not only is the year ending, but the decade is ending, too. So The Verge lists the most influential gadgets in the first decade of its existence. Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, and Paul Miller discuss how they picked their favorite gadgets of the decade as well as their process for deciding the list.
But first, we start the show with the release of Apple’s Mac Pro. The crew talks about what they…