GamingNews

Fortnite’s blank screen propels a social video comeback

October 27, 2019
It’s an accomplishment to get millions of gamers to watch a blank screen, as Fortnite did during the weekend of October 12. As audiences were expecting news about Season 11, they were met with a black hole and a blank screen — an explosion, then a significant amount of nothing. According to video measurement company Tubular Labs, Instagram and YouTube videos around the initial event collected…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Facebook AI can 'hide' people from facial recognition

October 27, 2019
Facebook has already stopped using facial recognition by default, but now it might have a way for people to dodge facial recognition altogether. Its researchers have developed an AI system that can “de-identify” people in real time, including live videos. The…
MobileNews

Chinese report suggests ‘AirPods Pro’ will come in multiple colors, perhaps to match iPhone 11

October 26, 2019
The rumours around new AirPods continue to build. A Chinese report today from Economic Daily News indicates that Apple will sell the ‘AirPods Pro’ in multiple colors, like black, white and midnight green. This would be significant as obviously the current AirPods only come in white. Images of redesigned AirPods were found by 9to5Mac in iOS beta assets. These are presumed to be higher-end…
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MobileNews

Android 10 ‘Rules,’ digital wellbeing apps, Google Home Minis bricked, more

October 26, 2019
In this week’s top stories: some Pixel phones pick up the “Rules” feature spotted in Android 10 betas, Google releases six experimental digital wellbeing apps, a firmware update inadvertently bricks some Google Home speakers, and more. This week, some reported that the “Rules” feature, which first appeared in the Android 10 Beta, has begun to roll to their Pixel phones of all…
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ComputersNews

Microsoft leak reveals Windows 10X will be coming to laptops

October 25, 2019
Microsoft has accidentally published an internal design document for its upcoming Windows 10X operating system. Spotted by WalkingCat, the document was briefly available online today and provides some more detail about Microsoft’s plans with Windows 10X. The software…
MobileNews

Apple highlights iPhone privacy with new ‘Simple as that’ ad

October 25, 2019
Apple has shared a new one-minute ad focused on iPhone privacy. The video highlights how much private information we have stored on smartphones and that it should belong to “you.” The new privacy on iPhone ad features an opening scene of a city at night as the narrator describes how important privacy is and how much private information we have on our smartphones. Right now there is more…
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