GamingNews

Steam's new beta takes local multiplayer games online

October 21, 2019
Valve didn’t wait long to give you a chance to play local multiplayer games online. The latest Steam beta client now includes Remote Play Together support that lets friends join in multiplayer experiences that would normally require sitting on the same couch. Only the host needs a copy of the game — everyone else just needs a controller or (with permission) access to the keyboard or…
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Twitch snags chief marketing officer Doug Scott from Zynga

October 21, 2019
Twitch, the livestreaming service and entertainment community owned by Amazon, is announcing today that former Zynga chief marketing officer Doug Scott is joining Twitch as the new CMO. He will be based in Twitch’s San Francisco office. The move shows that Twitch is still investing in veterans in the gaming industry, even as fully vested executives depart from Twitch after the Amazon acquisition…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Microsoft’s AI rewrites sentences based on context

October 21, 2019
Ever heard of context modeling? It defines how contextual data is structured and maintained, and it plays a pivotal role in open domain conversation. That’s why researchers at Microsoft recently investigated a novel approach that involves rewriting the last utterance in…
MobileNews

The Honor V30 Pro with 5G connectivity is coming in November

October 21, 2019
Honor President Zhao Ming has stated that a 5G-connected Honor V30 will be launched next month. Ming didn’t commit to a specific date in November, but said that the phone will support Stand Alone and Non-Stand Alone modes and hinted that this phone will target a young…
MobileNews

MacWorld test says iPhone 11 beats Pixel 4

October 21, 2019
When Apple announced the low-light photography capabilities of the iPhone 11, everyone was eagerly awaiting a new Night mode versus Night Sight test, aka Apple against Google. PC World conducted one back in September, but that was against the Pixel 3 – the smartphone originally crowned the king of low-light photography. There were objections then that it was comparing different generations…
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MobileNews

Samsung Galaxy Fold gets Note10 camera features with new update

October 21, 2019
The Samsung Galaxy Fold has been out for some time and Samsung is issuing the first official software update which brings all of the camera updates from the Note 10 line. Users in France and the UAE have already begun receiving firmware version F900FXXU1ASJ4 which comes…
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Curated list of Mac screensavers includes iPhone and Apple Watch lookalikes

October 21, 2019
Podcaster Adam Garrett-Harris has put together a fun curated list of Mac screensavers, including a bunch of Apple-inspired ones. There is, for example, one which makes your Mac screen look like the Lock screen of an iPhone or iPad (above), and another which looks like an Apple Watch (below)… The collection is divided into nine categories: Clocks Apple Inspired Retro Sci-Fi Video…
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