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Android Auto 5.0 breaks accept/decline call buttons on steering wheels

Android Auto 5.0 widely rolled out earlier this week with the ability to silence notifications while driving. However, this Android Auto release appears to have also introduced a bug that breaks the accept and decline call buttons on steering wheels. Over the past day, Android Auto users that updated to version 5.0.5002 of the app from the Play Store have reported that their steering wheel…
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9to5Rewards: Win iPhone 11 + Flash USB-C powerbank preorder special

Thanks to our sponsor Chargeasap, we’re giving away an iPhone 11 to one 9to5Mac reader this month to celebrate the launch of the company’s new Head below to enter the giveaway and check out Flash: The new is an upcoming 150W USB-C Powerbank with 100W power delivery powered by Tesla™ Graphene Batteries. The Flash includes two USB-A ports (one at 40W and the other at 18W) as well as a USB-C…
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GamingNews

Wizards of the Coast teams with ex-BioWare devs on a sci-fi RPG

Magic: The Gathering creator Wizards of the Coast has shared new details about the video game studio it’s building in Austin. The subsidiary is called Archetype Entertainment and its first project is a role-playing game set in a new sci-fi universe. Archetype says its…
AI & RoboticsNews

Google open-sources LaserTagger, an AI model that speeds up text generation

Sequence-to-sequence AI models, which were introduced by Google in 2014, aim to map fixed-length input (usually text) with a fixed-length output where the length of the input and output might differ. They’re used in text-generating tasks including summarization, grammatical error correction, and sentence fusion, and recent architectural breakthroughs have made them more capable than before. But…
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GamesBeat Summit speakers: Edward Saatchi, Elan Lee, and Doron Nir

GamesBeat Summit 2020 will focus on the latest trends in the gaming ecosystem, and today we’re introducing a trio of speakers who are bringing exciting ideas to the industry. In separate talks, Edward Saatchi of Fable Studios, Doron Nir of StreamElements, and Elan Lee of Exploding Kittens will speak at our event, which will take place on April 28 and April 29 in downtown Los Angeles at Two Bit…
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