Late last year, Samsung and Canonical partnered on an app that allowed select Galaxy phones to run a full Linux desktop on top of Android. Less than a year later, Samsung has announced that they’re discontinuing the Linux on DeX program, coinciding with the update to Android 10.
One of the sci-fi-style dreams that many of us have had since the onset of smartphones is the idea of plugging your…
Fossil’s Gen 5 smartwatch is the best Wear OS watch you can buy right now, and this week it’s getting a little bit better on iOS. An update for Fossil Gen 5 that’s rolling out right now lets the watch make phone calls if it’s connected to an iPhone.
Wear OS…
5 predictions for AI’s impact on customer experience in 2020
October 18, 2019
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2019 is wrapping up — time to take stock of the customer service trends that shaped the year, and get positioned for 2020. Join this VB Live event for a look at the predictions that came true, the hype that fizzled, and what’s next for AI…
Fortnite is finally getting better spatial audio
October 18, 2019
One of the reasons I couldn’t get into Fortnite was the sound. PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has an excellent and accurate sound model, and that made it difficult to move to another game that doesn’t. In Fortnite, it was difficult to tell where attacks were coming from. That is changing in the battle royale shooter, because developer Epic Games is introducing a new option called “3D…
Japanese carrier DoCoMo has posted a list of phones that will get updated to Android 10. Note that Sonys plans for the global models may be different, but it seems that flagships from early 2018 and later are safe.
Sony Xperia XZ2 Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact Sony…
You can now subscribe to your favorite streamers from your iOS device, provided you have an iOS device and have updated the Twitch app. Truly we are living in the future.
Twitch announced the news at this year’s TwitchCon in San Diego, but the feature rolled out today.
Sonic & Knuckles turned a problem into success 25 years ago
October 18, 2019
Sonic & Knuckles is what happens when you make the best out of a bad situation.
The Sega Genesis 2D platformer is celebrating its 25th anniversary today. But Sonic & Knuckles only exists because of time and memory constraints. Sega had planned for everything that’s in Sonic & Knuckles to be a part of Sonic the Hedgehog 3.
Sega, however, was running up against a deadline. Sonic 3 had…
Blizzard is banning people in its Hearthstone Twitch chat for pro-Hong Kong statements
October 18, 2019
In February, Blizzard announced a new Hearthstone e-sports program, called the Masters Tour, to pit the game’s best players against each other for a chance to win the acclaim of the internet (and potentially a lot of money). A European leg of the tour is currently…
Why Google still needs the cloud even with on-device ML
October 18, 2019
Google held its big annual hardware event Tuesday in New York to unveil the Pixel 4, Nest Mini, Pixelbook Go, Nest Wifi, and Pixel Buds. It was mostly predictable because details about virtually every piece of hardware the company revealed at the event were leaked months in…
Twitch viewers can subscribe to streamers on iOS
October 18, 2019
Twitch users on iOS can now subscribe to their favorite streamers directly from the app. It’ll offer the same benefits of subscribing on desktop, including ad-free viewing, sub badges, channel emotes and sub-only chat, as well as supporting the partner or affiliate monetarily.
Subscriptions work differently on iOS than other platforms on which Twitch is available. You’ll need to buy…
