AI & RoboticsNews

Snapchat’s Time Machine lens uses AI to age and de-age selfies

November 21, 2019
If you weren’t convinced yet that artificial intelligence will eventually be able to do pretty much anything, Snapchat is about to show you just how powerful machine learning can be — for free. Today, the popular social media app is adding a new lens called Time Machine that’s capable of aging and de-aging your face as seen through your smartphone. Like other Snap augmented reality lenses…
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MobileNews

Steam now lets you invite iOS and Android devices to join PC multiplayer games remotely

November 21, 2019
Last month, Valve announced a beta of Steam Remote Play Together, which let you play local multiplayer games over the internet with your friends across Windows, Linux, and macOS computers. Today, Remote Play Together is officially available for everyone, with a what could be a really cool new feature — you can play with your friends using iOS and Android devices as well. According to Valve, the…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Sonos acquires privacy-conscious AI startup Snips for $37.5 million

November 20, 2019
Audio company Sonos today announced the acquisition of Snips, a privacy-conscious conversational AI company based in Paris. The $37.5 million acquisition will bring machine learning engineers and others from Snips, a company with about 50 employees, into Sonos. Snips is the creator of open source conversational AI projects that have been used by more than 30,000 developers, such as Snips-NLU.
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GamingNews

Epic extends the current 'Fortnite' season to focus on holiday updates

November 20, 2019
The first season of Fortnite‘s Chapter 2 promises to be the longest-running one to date. Until now, seasons have lasted between two and three months, but the current one will run for almost four. The season started in tandem with a major overhaul of the game last month and Epic Games is extending it into early February so it can focus on “holiday-themed updates.” It ran a 14…
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