GamingNews

Google Stadia’s first game-dev studio opens in Montreal

October 24, 2019
Google is launching its cloud-gaming service Stadia on November 19. The company is positioning this as the first giant leap into a console-less future. But one thing that will help Stadia succeed is marquee, exclusive content. So hopefully Google is starting to make some of its own games. Well, today, the company revealed that it is opening a studio in Montreal to do exactly that. That team…
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GameStop may begin selling Call of Duty: Modern Warfare early

October 24, 2019
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare launches tonight for PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 when the clock strikes midnight. But you probably don’t have to wait until October 25 to start playing the military shooter. If you purchase it digitally, Activision plans to unlock the game…
AI & RoboticsNews

Incode raises $10 million to verify identities with AI

October 24, 2019
Incode, a San Francisco startup developing what it describes as an omnichannel biometric identity platform, today announced that it’s raised $10 million in seed funding from undisclosed investors. Founder and CEO Ricardo Amper said that the newfound capital will enable Incode to accelerate the development and rollout of its tools globally, some of which are already being used by major banks…
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Mike Ybarra joins Blizzard after years as Xbox services boss

October 24, 2019
Blizzard Entertainment is getting a new executive from Microsoft. Mike Ybarra is taking on the role of executive vice president and general manager at the Overwatch and World of Warcraft publisher. This comes two weeks after Ybarra left his long-time position on…
MobileNews

OxygenOS Open Beta 4 for the OnePlus 7 and OnePlus 7 Pro set to roll out soon

October 24, 2019
The OxygenOS Open Beta 4 should be available to download for the OnePlus 7 and OnePlus 7 Pro very soon and brings a long list of new tweaks and improvements for Android 10. Officially announced on the OnePlus forums, the update isn’t quite ready yet as the development team is still “addressing an issue.” Considering that we saw Open Beta 3 hit devices just a few weeks ago, this is quite the…
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AI & RoboticsNews

AI can help doctors spot brain hemorrhages faster

October 24, 2019
The process relied on a convolutional neural network that pored over 4,396 CT scans. That’s a comparatively small number of samples, but the abnormalities were detailed “at the pixel level,” according to UCSF. In other words, they were far less likely to misinterpret noise and other errors as hemorrhages. The technique also had the AI training on part of an image at a time rather…
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