GamingNews

Donald Trump is the newest Twitch streamer

October 11, 2019
The 2020 presidential campaigns are well under way, and Donald Trump has added another internet outlet to reach voters: Twitch. The campaign’s first verified stream went live tonight from a rally in Minneapolis, as Trump followed Bernie Sanders’ campaign in creating a presence on the site. While the primary use of Twitch is for live video game streams, as of this writing it’s…
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GamingNews

Donald Trump joins Twitch, an Amazon-owned company

October 10, 2019
President Donald Trump has joined streaming service Twitch as part of his re-election strategy. Twitch is owned by Amazon, the company led by Jeff Bezos — and both Amazon and Bezos are frequent targets for Trump’s displeasure. It appears Trump recently joined Twitch…
GamingNews

How Google Stadia’s ‘negative latency’ might work

October 10, 2019
Google Stadia is going to feel more responsive than local hardware … eventually. At least, Stadia engineering boss Madj Bakar is making that claim in an interview in the latest issue of Edge magazine (via PCGamesN). That doesn’t seem possible, right?. Latency is…
AI & RoboticsNews

AI startups stand out at Comcast Lift Labs Accelerator 2019

October 10, 2019
This evening in Philadelphia, Comcast NBCUniversal’s Lift Labs Accelerator showcased the 11 companies in its second-ever class during a demo day in front of investors and the local tech community. The event marked the finale of the program’s 13-week program, during which each startup worked with Techstars’ bench of industry experts and Comcast brands including Xfinity, NBC, Telemundo, NBC…
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MobileNews

How to share Notes app folders on iPhone, iPad, and Mac

October 10, 2019
A lesser-known but very useful feature included with iOS 13, iPadOS 13, and macOS Catalina is improved sharing in the Notes app. Follow along for how to share Notes app folders on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Folder sharing for iCloud Drive in the Files app was originally…
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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