MobileNews

OnePlus TV gets Netflix app and a redesigned remote

December 9, 2019
OnePlus has good news for prospective buyers of its new television. The first one is that the TV now finally comes with the Netflix app pre-installed. This was one of our complaints when we reviewed the television back in October and we are glad to see it being resolved. However, the lack of Netflix was nothing compared to the atrocity that was the remote control design. But in a completely…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Nvidia trains AI to transform 2D images into 3D models

December 9, 2019
Nvidia Research created an AI system that can predict 3D properties of 2D images without any 3D training data. The work will be presented at the annual conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, where researchers in academia and industry share the latest in…
GamingNews

How Small Giant Games got acquired by Zynga and lived to tell the tale

December 9, 2019
Zynga’s acquisition of Finland’s Small Giant Games last year represented a triumph for the surging Finnish mobile gaming studio as well as another sign of its new owner’s turnaround. But given that most acquisitions fail, it was also a huge risk for both sides. How can one company buy another without quashing the culture and creativity that made it a success? I discussed this subject…
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MobileNews

Prices of Galaxy S10 lite, Note10 lite, Galaxy A71 and A51 appear on online retailer

December 9, 2019
The Samsung Galaxy A (2020) phones will be unveiled this Thursday, but a Slovakian retailer couldn’t wait this long and put up pages for the Galaxy A51 through A91. The pages were clearly placeholders, though someone forgot to hide the prices. The Samsung Galaxy A91 is rumored to sell under the name “Galaxy S10 lite” in some markets. It will be the priciest of the bunch, at €670 it’s…
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GamingNews

Dreamscaper puts a nightmarish twist on action-RPGs

December 9, 2019
This article is made possible by Intel’s GameDev BOOST program — dedicated to helping indie game developers everywhere achieve their dreams Afterburner Studios began as a lark. Cofounders Robert Taylor, Ian Cofino, and Paul Svoboda had just left their previous company…
MobileNews

Alleged Samsung Galaxy S11 leaks in especially grainy hands-on images

December 9, 2019
The very first hands-on image leak of the alleged Galaxy S11 has now surfaced, although you would be hard-pressed to work out just what you’re looking at given the quality of the leaked images. Despite that, the upcoming flagship is visible even in a supposed ‘leakproof case’ due to that quite distinctive new camera layout that was showcased previously in CAD-based renders. Given the track…
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