GamingNews

Luigi’s Mansion gave Mario’s brother his own identity

October 10, 2019
Luigi’s Mansion 3 comes out on October 31, and it’ll be Nintendo’s biggest Switch release for the rest of the year (that doesn’t include the word Pokémon in the title). But before the Halloween launch, I’m looking back and appreciating the original Luigi’s Mansion for GameCube, a game that helped define a console and a little brother. Because before Luigi’s Mansion came out in…
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MobileNews

Google makes first official acknowledgement of ‘Android 11’

October 10, 2019
The 2019 Android Dev Summit kicks off later this month and Google yesterday posted the full conference schedule. An official Android app for the event interestingly makes the first official reference to “Android 11.” One session at the two-day conference in Mountain…
ComputersNews

PC shipments grew in Q3 2019 thanks to Windows 10 refresh

October 10, 2019
The PC market grew between 1% and 3% in Q3 2019, according to research firms Gartner and IDC. After six years of quarterly PC shipment declines, 2018 was mixed, with negative, flat, and positive quarters. 2019 is doing slightly better: Q1 was negative, but Q2 and Q3…
AI & RoboticsNews

LinkedIn’s AI automatically generates photo text descriptions

October 10, 2019
Are today’s computer vision technologies robust enough to generate text descriptions for photos across a range of domains? That’s the question scientists at LinkedIn have been investigating over the past several years, solutions to which they detailed in a blog post this afternoon. One of their more promising efforts is a tool that adds suggested alternative text descriptions for images…
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MobileNews

What’s new in iOS 13.2 beta 2? New emoji, Siri privacy setting, more

October 10, 2019
The second developer beta of iOS 13.2 is now available. In addition to features like Deep Fusion and Announce Messages with Siri, the second developer beta has more in store. Here’s our full roundup of what’s new. The first beta of iOS 13.2 was released last week with Apple’s new Deep Fusion image processing technology. In addition to Deep Fusion, iOS 13.2 also includes things such as the…
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GamingNews

Ubisoft is turning more of its games into animated shows

October 10, 2019
French video game company Ubisoft is continuing its foray into animated television with several new shows, including a tamed Watch Dogs tale and a franchise built around Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon. The Watch Dogs series is described as a toned-down version of Ubisoft’s…
MobileNews

Apple releasing second developer beta of iOS 13.2 today

October 10, 2019
Update: iOS 13.2 beta 2, iPadOS 13.2 beta 2, watchOS 6.1 beta 3, and tvOS 13.2 beta 2 now available. iOS 13.2 and iPadOS 13.2 public beta 2 also now available. Apple today is releasing the second developer beta of iOS 13.2 and iPadOS 13.2. Today’s release comes just over a…
MobileNews

Facebook launches PyTorch Mobile for edge ML on Android and iOS devices

October 10, 2019
Facebook is planing to release PyTorch Mobile for deploying machine learning models on Android and iOS devices. PyTorch Mobile was released today alongside PyTorch 1.3, the latest version of Facebook’s open-source deep learning library with quantization and support for use of Google Cloud TPUs, and tools like Captum, which supplies explainability for machine learning models. PyTorch Mobile…
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