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Researchers develop AI that reads lips from video footage

December 4, 2019
AI and machine learning algorithms capable of reading lips from videos aren’t anything out of the ordinary, in truth. Back in 2016, researchers from Google and the University of Oxford detailed a system that could annotate video footage with 46.8% accuracy, outperforming a professional human lip-reader’s 12.4% accuracy. But even state-of-the-art systems struggle to overcome ambiguities in lip…
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GamingNews

Google Play "Best of 2019" awards headlined by Call of Duty: Mobile and Glitch Video editor

December 4, 2019
As 2019 comes to an end, Google listed the best apps, games, movies and ebooks from the Play Store in two distinct categories with a Users’ Choice section alongside the Google Play Editors winners. In the Users’ Choice category, Video Editor – Glitch Video Effects got first place in the app category while Call of Duty: Mobile was named best mobile game. Marvel Studios’ Avengers…
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MobileNews

The PlayStation 3 was Blu-ray’s ultimate Trojan horse

December 4, 2019
As the PlayStation 3 came to market in 2006, prices of HDTVs were falling. More consumers were looking to upgrade the big screen in their living rooms. And so the entertainment industry was eager to move on from DVD and rerelease films in hopes that people would “double…
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Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire sails to PS4 and Xbox One on January 28

December 4, 2019
Publisher THQ Nordic announced today that Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire will be available for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on January 28. Deadfire is a role-playing game from Obsidian that came out for PC in May 2018. It’s one of the last titles Obsidian made before Microsoft bought the developer in November 2018. Before Obsidian had all of that Microsoft money to play with, the studio went to…
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Fantasy General II is coming to PS4 and Xbox One in 2020, and it’s getting new DLC

December 4, 2019
Slitherine Software’s known for deep strategy games on PC, but it’s put a few games the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One over the years, most notably 2017’s Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock. Now the publisher is bringing another of its franchises to consoles: Fantasy General II, a turn-based strategy game came out in September for PC. Fantasy General II will come to the PS4 and Xbox One in 2020. The…
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