GamingNews

The NBA 2K League expands beyond the NBA with new Shanghai team

September 27, 2019
The NBA 2K League kicked off in 2018 with an interesting premise: a group of professional teams, each affiliated with an NBA squad, playing a virtual rendition of the sport. Now, after two seasons, the league is looking to expand beyond the NBA with a new club based in Shanghai. The Chinese team will be the first in the league based outside of North America and the first not operated by an NBA…
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ComputersNews

HP’s new Chromebooks support the universal stylus standard

September 27, 2019
HP’s latest Chromebooks, the x360 12b and 14b, are the company’s first to support the Universal Stylus Initiative (USI), the new standard that lets compatible styluses work seamlessly across a range of different devices. The Chromebooks have been released as part of a…
AI & RoboticsNews

Autoblow AI is a sex toy that promises ‘surprise’

September 27, 2019
NSFW: This article may contain links to and descriptions or images of explicit sexual acts. The phrase “artificial intelligence” conjures all sorts of ideas about a synthetic consciousness that knows us better than we know ourselves. But it’s more often hollowly used as a buzzword, providing a little excitement to systems that just identify patterns. This pattern recognition has…
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MobileNews

Snapdragon 855-powered Realme bags Bluetooth certification

September 27, 2019
Realme is one of the fastest-growing smartphone brands around and the company is known for its excellent price-performance ratio. There have been rumors that Realme is gearing up to offer a device with a flagship-grade chipset and a new certification from the Bluetooth…
AI & RoboticsNews

AI and the next big esports boom for pro players, amateurs, and entrepreneurs

September 27, 2019
Presented by Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Esports is a billion-dollar competitive video gaming phenomenon, and a booming market. Professional players are drawing larger and larger team salaries, while monetizing their fans on personal channels. Meanwhile, big brand sponsors are turning into team owners and traditional sports team franchises are launching their own esports teams. It’s no surprise…
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AI & RoboticsNews

OnePlus SMS app taps AI to categorize messages and display content as visual cards

September 27, 2019
OnePlus is introducing a new AI-powered feature to its SMS app today, one that automatically groups messages together by category — much like Gmail does for email. Additionally, traditionally plain-text SMS messages will now be displayed as visualizations to make them more readable. The news was timed to coincide with the new OnePlus 7T smartphone, which was unveiled at an event in India earlier…
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