GamingNews

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare looks best with Nvidia RTX real-time ray tracing

If you’re playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, it will look best on a gaming PC with Nvidia GeForce RTX hardware. I played the just-released first-person shooter game on the PlayStation 4 and have also started playing it on a Falcon Northwest Talon gaming PC with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Super graphics card. That RTX hardware gives me real-time ray tracing, which dramatically improves the…
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MobileNews

This week’s top stories: Apple AR headset rumors, iOS 13.2 beta, Apple TV+, more

In this week’s top stories: Apple hid a Lightning connector in the Apple TV 4K, new iOS 13.2 beta, Dark Mode’s affect on battery life, and more. Read on for all of this week’s biggest news. A new video from PhoneBuff this week put Dark Mode to the test in terms of battery life. The end result is actually quite impressive. ’s test found that the iPhone XS using Dark Mode drained the battery…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Google Assistant is ready to find your Tile tracker

As promised, Google Assistant can now help find your Tile trackers with very little effort. Link the Bluetooth gadget in the Google Home app, set up Voice Match in Assistant and you can ask the voice helper to locate your trackers (and hopefully, the items attached to…
GamingNews

Fortnite’s blank screen propels a social video comeback

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…
AI & RoboticsNews

Facebook AI can 'hide' people from facial recognition

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 approach pairs an adversarial auto-encoder with a trained face classifier to ever-so-slightly distort a person’s face…
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MobileNews

Google Messages trick enables RCS on any Android phone and carrier

This has been a big week for Rich Communicator Services with the four largest US carriers announcing (a Google-less) plan to roll out the SMS/MMS successor. Today, a trick has emerged that appears to enable RCS on any Android device and carrier. Posted to Reddit (u/NashRadical, u/sh0ch, u/LinkofHyrule), this trick to enable RCS in Messages appears reliant on Google’s implementation. The…
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