The increasing quality of many Android games means that you might feel the need to gain an advantage over online rivals or just improve your overall gaming experience. Luckily, Android 10 now can natively connect the PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch controllers if you want to use your existing gamepads.
Previously you were able to connect controllers but they would be recognized as a…
There’s a new Star Wars film coming out soon, and Roblox is partnering with Disney to enable players to build their own in-universe vehicles. The Galactic Speedway Creator Challenge tasks you with building your own customized drift speeder and race against your…
Android flaw allowed apps to take and upload pictures, some devices still vulnerable
November 20, 2019
A recently-revealed flaw that affected all Android devices at one point allowed attacker applications to take pictures and upload them to servers without user permission. Thankfully, this Android camera flaw has been patched on some…
Cerebras Systems is unveiling the CS-1, billed as the fastest artificial intelligence computer in the world and certainly one of the most daring attempts to create a better supercomputer. And it has gained acceptance from the U.S. federal government’s supercomputing program.
The CS-1 has an entire wafer as its brain, rather than a chip. Normally, silicon chips are carved out of processed 12-inch…
NVIDIA's RTX Studio driver speeds up ray-traced V-Ray rendering
November 20, 2019
When you see a particularly shiny, photorealistic 3D scene, there’s a good chance it was created on Autodesk’s 3DS Max or Maya using Chaos Group’s V-Ray renderer. It can take a long time for workstations to crunch through V-Ray scenes, however, so NVIDIA…
Bizagi’s process automation platform gets AI decisioning and Azure Cognitive Services integration
November 20, 2019
Bizagi now offers its process automation tools and AI capabilities alongside Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services, and its Bizagi Studio Collaboration Services is free to use in the Azure Marketplace, too. This follows news from just a few weeks ago about updates to the…
Apple teams up with 100cameras nonprofit to teach students photography and storytelling using iPhone
November 20, 2019
In a new press release today, Apple announced that it has partnered with the nonprofit organization 100cameras to give students in Chicago the new iPhone 11. Through this partnership, the students are taught how to express themselves through visual storytelling with the iPhone.
The iPhones were distributed to students from DRW College Prep, as part of a course on using photography to tell the…
Google Assistant’s latest feature is a personalized audio news feed
November 20, 2019
Starting today, you can ask Google Assistant to “play me to the news” and it’ll create a curated playlist of audio news stories. The feature, called Your News Update, is available on any phone or smart speaker with access to Google Assistant. Each update…
'Fortnite' DirectX 12 update boosts performance on high-end PCs
November 20, 2019
Fortnite is about to make better use of your fast gaming rig. Epic is rolling out an update to the Windows version of its battle royale shooter that adds support for DirectX 12. If you have a high-end graphics chipset, you should see “higher and steadier” frame…
Xiaomi’s Xiao AI assistant passes 49.9 million users
November 20, 2019
Today marked the kickoff of Xiaomi’s annual Mi Developer conference in Beijing, and the tech giant wasted no time in announcing updates across its AI portfolio. It took the wraps off the latest release of Mobile AI Compute Engine (MACE), its open source machine learning framework, and it demoed an improved version of its Xiao AI voice assistant (Xiao AI 3.0).
Xiao AI 3.0
Xiao AI, which Xiaomi…
