Microsoft’s Azure PlayFab and Xbox divisions have joined together to offer game developers matchmaking and multiplayer parties at no cost when used by an Xbox network authenticated player.
The offer extends to all platforms where the Xbox network is supported today, including the Xbox, PC, iOS, or Android.
PlayFab Matchmaking is a customizable matchmaking service developers can use to help…
Last year, Google’s Area 120 incubator introduced a Waze-like crowdsourcing app for public transit in New York City. Pigeon for iOS is now available in five more US cities, while an Android app is coming.
Launched September 2018, Pigeon is a “crowdsourced transit app…
AnTuTu announces the best performing Android phones in October
November 5, 2019
AnTuTu released its latest top 10 lists for the best performing phones for October. Previously the benchmarking tool only revealed the top flagship phones but now there is a separate top 10 list for the midrange segment as well. The compiled results are based on the average…
NVIDIA's AI will help USPS handle packages 10 times faster
November 5, 2019
The US Postal Service (USPS) delivers an estimated 146 billion pieces of mail annually, including 6 billion packages. In an attempt to process package data more efficiently, USPS is experimenting with AI. Today, NVIDIA announced that it will provide USPS with its AI tech. NVIDIA claims its system will process package data 10-times faster and with higher accuracy.
For months, engineering teams…
NVIDIA's AI will help USPS handle packages 10 times faster
November 5, 2019
The US Postal Service (USPS) delivers an estimated 146 billion pieces of mail annually, including 6 billion packages. In an attempt to process package data more efficiently, USPS is experimenting with AI. Today, NVIDIA announced that it will provide USPS with its AI tech.
How can you distinguish between satire and fake news? It usually comes down to semantic and linguistic differences, but the nuances can be tough to spot. That’s why researchers at George Washington University, Amazon AWS AI, and startup AdVerifai investigated a machine…
Bandai takes a cue from Nintendo in its new DIY kit for kids
November 5, 2019
Kids today are growing up with a lot of screens in their lives, despite the advice of pediatricians. One of the things they get a lot less of in playing with devices is the development of more tactile skills, which are usually learned by manipulating toys and other physical objects. Over the past few years we’ve seen companies try to remedy this by introducing products that marry the real…
Facebook details wav2vec, an AI algorithm that uses raw audio to improve speech recognition
November 5, 2019
Automatic speech recognition, or ASR, is a foundational part of not only assistants like Apple’s Siri, but dictation software such as Nuance’s Dragon and customer support platforms like Google’s Contact Center AI. It’s the thing that enables machines to parse…
The Xiaomi Mi CC9 Pro is official it was unveiled earlier today and tomorrow the first units will be sold. GearBest has exclusive dibs on those units and will offer an early bird deal tomorrow.
The retailer promises a price even lower than the global launch…
HomeLight raises $109 million for AI that matches home buyers with real estate agents
November 5, 2019
San Francisco-based HomeLight, which develops AI-driven software and services for home buyers, sellers, and real estate agents, today announced that it has raised $109 million in funding from a raft of investors, bringing its total raised to over $160 million. Zeev Ventures led the round, with participation from Group 11, Menlo Ventures, Crosslink Capital, Stereo Capital, and others.
CEO Drew Uher…
