GamingNews

Steam November top 20: Star Wars, Terminator, and Age of Empires II

December 17, 2019
A wide variety of new games are finding success on Steam, PC gaming’s most popular and most-used platform. Valve Software revealed Steam’s November top 20 in a blog post on its site today. And while a lot of big, familiar names made the cut, so did a number of new properties. Valve gathers this data by comparing the first two weeks of a game’s sales following its release. It then throws the…
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MobileNews

Realme X50 5G gets certified in China, specs get teased

December 17, 2019
Realme’s upcoming X50 smartphone will be its first to have 5G connectivity. Today it has gathered approval by another authority, suggesting we are very close to its actual market launch. The smartphone with model number RMX2051 was certified at MIIT China (Ministry of Industry and Information Technology), and a trustful source confirmed this is indeed the Realme X50. He also claimed the…
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ComputersNews

Apple's new Mac Pro is unsurprisingly easy to repair

December 17, 2019
It won’t shock you to hear that Apple’s new Mac Pro is easy to upgrade in many ways — that’s the whole point. But how easy it to service beyond the obvious parts? It’s mostly easy, according to iFixit. The DIY repair outfit has torn down the…
GamingNews

The best Xbox One games

December 17, 2019
A series of missteps put Microsoft in second place before the Xbox One even came out. While it’s likely to remain there until the next generation begins, there are a lot of people out there who have never experienced what the console has to offer. With the Xbox One X…
AI & RoboticsNews

Why eBay believes in open-sourcing Krylov, its AI platform

December 17, 2019
It’s hard to find a tech company these days that isn’t attempting some sort of AI-related product, product, service, or initiative, but eBay went all-in by building its own AI platform, called Krylov. Sanjeev Katariya, eBay’s VP and chief architect of AI and platforms, described Krylov in an interview with VentureBeat: “At the very highest level, Krylov is a machine learning platform that…
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MobileNews

Gboard update causes crashing issue on some Android phones

December 17, 2019
Google’s keyboard for Android, Gboard, is full of useful features and works really well. However, the latest update to Gboard is causing a crashing issue for some Android smartphones which is even going as far as locking some users out of their devices. Growing threads on…
AI & RoboticsNews

Hugging Face raises $15 million to build open source community for cutting-edge conversational AI

December 17, 2019
Hugging Face has announced the close of a $15 million series A funding round led by Lux Capital, with participation from Salesforce chief scientist Richard Socher and OpenAI CTO Greg Brockman, as well as Betaworks and A.Capital. New-York based Hugging Face started as a chatbot company, but then began to use Transformers, an approach to conversational AI that’s become a foundation for…
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