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Microsoft claims its AI framework spots fake news better than state-of-the-art baselines

April 8, 2020
In a study published this week on the preprint server Arxiv.org, Microsoft and Arizona State University researchers propose an AI framework — Multiple sources of Weak Social Supervision (MWSS) — that leverages engagement and social media signals to detect fake news. They say that after training and testing the model on a real-world data set, it outperforms a number of state-of-the-art…
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GamingNews

Xbox Game Bar gets Widget Store with support for Xsplit and more

April 8, 2020
Microsoft is adding more functionality to the Xbox Game Bar on PC. This is Windows’ built-in gaming command center. You can bring up the Game Bar at any time in a game by hitting Win+G, and now doing so will give you access to widgets for external apps as well. The Widget Store is coming to the Xbox Game Bar today. This gives you options to plug in controls for broadcasting tools like XSplit’s…
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MobileNews

Three employees at Blue Origin test positive for COVID-19 after workers voice concern over test launch

April 8, 2020
Three Blue Origin employees have now tested positive for COVID-19 in Washington, according to emails from the company seen by The Verge. The cases, first reported by CNBC and GeekWire, were just announced over the weekend, days after Blue Origin management pressured employees to conduct an upcoming test launch of the company’s New Shepard rocket during a meeting. “Over the weekend, we…
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MobileNews

Samsung Galaxy Chromebook review: beautiful to a fault

April 8, 2020
Who is buying a $1,000 Chromebook? That’s the question people debated across the internet when Google unveiled the Pixelbook in 2017, and it’s a debate that will continue as the 2-in-1 Samsung Galaxy Chromebook makes its way onto shelves. In a market packed with laptops…
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ABC News launches live app on Android TV

April 8, 2020
Right as it’s needed most, ABC News has been expanding the availability of its content on new platforms. Now, ABC News has launched its Live app on Google’s Android TV. In a press release, ABC announced that its ABC News Live app is launching on Android TV and…
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Nokia 9.3 PureView reportedly delayed yet again, this time because of the outbreak

April 8, 2020
It feels that every time a new rumor about the Nokia 9 PureView sequel comes up, it’s about the phone being delayed. The latest bit of gossip is no different, HMD reportedly pushed back its flagship to H2. We’ve been hearing about the new PureView for so long that it was originally supposed to be called Nokia 9.1. Then it became the 9.2 and now it may come out as the 9.3 – HMD already renamed…
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