GamingNews

Naughty Dog is donating the money from its ‘Jak and Daxter’ reissues

December 11, 2019
Early this year, to celebrate its 35th anniversary, game developer Naughty Dog did a physical reissue of its classic PS2-era Jak and Daxter games for PlayStation 4. Fans apparently loved it. The collector’s edition sold out in hours and the standard editions sold out in less than a week. Now, instead of pocketing the cash, Naughty Dog is donating all of the proceeds to a bunch of…
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MobileNews

Twitter lets you upload iOS Live Photos as GIFs at last

December 11, 2019
Twitter is offering iOS users another way to get more out of Live Photos by letting you turn them into GIFs “anywhere you upload photos on Twitter.” It’s not clear whether this’ll work for Pixel motion photos as well. Engadget has asked Twitter for…
GamingNews

Forza Horizon 4 gets Eliminator battle royale mode

December 11, 2019
The Eliminator is coming to Forza Horizon 4. While that might sound like a 1980s vehicle-based TV action series, it’s actually the game’s new free battle royale. This is part of Microsoft’s continued efforts to support the open-world driving game with regular content…
AI & RoboticsNews

Microsoft’s FastSpeech AI speeds up realistic voices generation

December 11, 2019
State-of-the-art text-to-speech models can produce snippets that sound nearly human-like on first listen. In point of fact, they underpin the neural voices available through Google Assistant, as well as the newscaster voice that recently came to Alexa and Amazon’s Polly service. But because most of the models share the same synthesis approaches in common — this is, they generate a…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Sproutt raises $12 million to find your best life insurance policy with AI

December 11, 2019
Life insurance isn’t as popular as it once was, despite the fact that a majority of people consider it to be important. Over 80% of consumers agreed in a recent survey that people need a life insurance policy, yet just 62% say they have one themselves. In fact, only 44% of U.S. households held individual life insurance as of 2010 — a 50-year low — compared with the 72% of Americans who owned…
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MobileNews

Android TV’s Google Assistant adds support for Hindi, Swedish, Vietnamese

December 11, 2019
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