GamingNews

NBA 2K20 and Borderlands 3 top the charts

October 17, 2019
Consumer spending on video games continued to decline in the United States in September, according to industry-tracking firm The NPD Group. But fans still showed up for some of the big releases, including the double-header of NBA 2K20 and Borderlands 3 from publisher Take-Two Interactive. Here are the full results: September 2019 Dollar Sales Sep’18 Sep’19 Change Total Video…
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NBA 2K20 is already the best-selling game of 2019 in the U.S.

October 17, 2019
NBA 2K20 came out on September 6 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC, but the sports game is already the U.S.’s best-selling title of 2019. This is according to industry-tracking firm The NPD Group’s report on U.S. gaming sales for September 2019. Yes, NBA…
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The Switch turns Overwatch into a great second-screen game

October 17, 2019
Overwatch has finally made its way to the Nintendo Switch, fulfilling the endless requests from me that Blizzard port its popular team shooter to Nintendo’s portable console. It’s not the first mainstream shooter to make the jump to the Switch: Bethesda has ported Doom…
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare ditches loot boxes for a battle pass

October 17, 2019
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is just days away from its October 25th release date, and Activision has finally announced how it’ll be running the in-game economy for the upcoming shooter. Specifically, Modern Warfare will be the first Call of Duty game to use a battle pass system, instead of the much maligned random loot boxes, to dispense content and cosmetics to players. Popularized by…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Google taps evolution for state-of-the-art AI video understanding models

October 17, 2019
Video understanding is an AI subfield that not only underpins systems capable of sussing out semantics automatically, like web-video classifiers and sport activity recognizers, but that’s at the cornerstone of robot perception and navigation systems. Unfortunately, devising machine learning models that take advantage of videos’ spatio-temporal information isn’t easy, nor is identifying those…
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MobileNews

O2 launches its 5G network in six UK cities, plan costs are unchanged

October 17, 2019
UK carrier O2 has activated its 5G network and announced a number of new plans if you want to try the next generation of wireless connectivity – the good news is that you won’t have to pay any premium, the 5G plans cost exactly the same as the 4G plans. An Unlimited plan is available if you plan to download massive amounts of data quickly. O2’s 5G network is available in six cities: Belfast…
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