MobileNews

Google Maps’ Incognito Mode arrives on iOS

December 9, 2019
Soon, iOS users will be able to tap Google Maps for navigation and location searches without revealing their personal data. In a blog post, Google today announced that Incognito Mode, a privacy feature revealed earlier this year that recently came to Maps on Android, will arrive on iOS in the coming days. Inspired by the Chrome browser’s feature of the same name, it prevents places from being…
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'Minecraft' will finally support cross-platform play on PS4

December 9, 2019
Minecraft fans on PlayStation 4 will be able to play with their buddies on other platforms such as Xbox One, PCs and mobile devices starting Tuesday. Mojang is at last updating the PS4 version of its colossally successful title to the Bedrock version, which will finally…
AI & RoboticsNews

Intel previews AI advances in software testing, sequence models, and explainability

December 9, 2019
This week marks the kickoff of Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), one of the largest AI and machine learning conferences globally. NeurIPS 2017 and NeuIPS 2018 received 3,240 and 4,854 research paper submissions, respectively, and this year’s event — which takes place from December 8 to December 14 in Vancouver — is on track to handily break those records. (Submissions this…
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MobileNews

Samsung Galaxy S11+ may come with a custom 108MP sensor

December 9, 2019
So far, only a couple of smartphones with Samsung’s new 108MP ISOCELL Bright HMX have come out and all of them from Xiaomi. And it’s no secret anymore that Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S11-lineup will most likely come equipped with the said sensor, but this is…
MobileNews

OnePlus TV gets Netflix app and a redesigned remote

December 9, 2019
OnePlus has good news for prospective buyers of its new television. The first one is that the TV now finally comes with the Netflix app pre-installed. This was one of our complaints when we reviewed the television back in October and we are glad to see it being resolved. However, the lack of Netflix was nothing compared to the atrocity that was the remote control design. But in a completely…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Nvidia trains AI to transform 2D images into 3D models

December 9, 2019
Nvidia Research created an AI system that can predict 3D properties of 2D images without any 3D training data. The work will be presented at the annual conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, where researchers in academia and industry share the latest in…
GamingNews

How Small Giant Games got acquired by Zynga and lived to tell the tale

December 9, 2019
Zynga’s acquisition of Finland’s Small Giant Games last year represented a triumph for the surging Finnish mobile gaming studio as well as another sign of its new owner’s turnaround. But given that most acquisitions fail, it was also a huge risk for both sides. How can one company buy another without quashing the culture and creativity that made it a success? I discussed this subject…
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