Valve revealed today that its latest Steam Labs experiment is optimizing its digital gaming store’s search engine.
Steam is the world’s largest digital PC store. It’s important that its users can easily discover new games, both for Valve and the publishers that use Steam. Right now, Steam can be a bit front-loaded. The games that are hits are big hits, while many more titles go unnoticed.
(Reuters) — Apple is planning to fix a flaw that a security firm said may have left more than half a billion iPhones vulnerable to hackers. The bug, which also exists on iPads, was discovered by ZecOps, a San Francisco-based mobile security forensics company, while it was…
Maccabi to deploy AI that identifies patients at risk of developing COVID-19 complications
April 23, 2020
An HMO developing a platform for the discovery of clinical insights from medial information, Israel’s Maccabi Healthcare Services, plans to deploy an AI system that can identify people at risk of developing COVID-19 complications. The work is being done in partnership with…
Since Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips and other widely available components now power almost all of the world’s 5G smartphones, individual OEMs are trying to find ways to make their devices stand out. So Motorola is launching its Edge+ phone with a familiar trick: promising insane peak speeds, even if current 5G networks aren’t yet able to deliver them.
While Edge+ isn’t a slouch on other…
Legal tech startup Bodhala this week closed a $10 million round, the bulk of which will be put toward product R&D and sales efforts, cofounder and CEO Raj Goyle told VentureBeat. The company’s platform taps AI and machine learning to help companies analyze and optimize…
Motorola is hosting an online event tomorrow, April 22nd, at 12PM ET, and it appears the company will be announcing a new flagship called the Edge Plus at the event, according to a now-pulled blog post spotted by Droid Life. The information Droid Life grabbed from the post…
Some of Apple’s iPhones rumored to launch in the fall and a larger iPhone SE model apparently slated for 2021 could be delayed, according to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo (via MacRumors).
This fall, Apple is rumored to launch as many as four iPhones that support 5G, and Kuo says the iPhones that support the faster mmWave 5G have a “potential delay risk,” according to MacRumors. In addition…
Razer has announced the early 2020 edition of its Blade Stealth 13. The new model replaces last year’s GTX model and starts at $1,799. It will be available in the second quarter of 2020.
The biggest news is that the new Stealth is the first Ultrabook with a 13.3-inch…
The OnePlus 6T is down to $280 today at Woot
April 22, 2020
The 2018 OnePlus 6T phone is as low as $280 right now at Woot, an online store owned and operated by Amazon. This particular model being sold was originally locked to T-Mobile, but it can now be used with that carrier as well as Verizon and AT&T.
In case you need a…
How to use your Android or iOS device as a webcam
April 22, 2020
A good webcam, let alone any webcam, is tough to find these days. Just to put a time marker on this post: the coronavirus pandemic has moved much of America’s workforce into a work-from-home environment. With so many people in need of basic tech supplies, demand for webcams has surged, and as supplies dwindle, prices have unsurprisingly skyrocketed.
My colleague Chris Welch has reported on the…
