GamingNews

November 2022 NPD: God of War, Sonic and Pokémon chart high

December 10, 2022
Connect with gaming and metaverse leaders online at GamesBeat Summit: Into the Metaverse 3 this February 1-2. Register here. Several of November’s game releases have shot to the top — well, close to the top — of the charts, according to industry-tracking firm The NPD Group. Consumer spending in the U.S. is also slightly higher than it was last year, thanks in part to a surge in hardware…
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Practice Makes Perfect for Student Inventions at JPL Competition

December 10, 2022
After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the Invention Challenge made a lively return to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California on Friday. Now in its 23rd year, the long-running tradition brings together students and professional engineers to compete…
AI & RoboticsNews

DeepMind created an AI tool that can help generate rough film and stage scripts

December 10, 2022
Have you ever thought up an idea for a movie or play that you just know will be a smash hit, but haven’t gotten around to writing the script? Alphabet’s DeepMind has built an AI tool that can help get you started. Dramatron is a so-called “co-writing” tool that can generate character descriptions, plot points, location descriptions and dialogue. The idea is that human…
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GamingNews

Bayonetta Origins revealed, launches on March 17 on Switch

December 10, 2022
Connect with gaming and metaverse leaders online at GamesBeat Summit: Into the Metaverse 3 this February 1-2. Register here. In what is perhaps penance for making fans wait so long for Bayonetta 3, Nintendo revealed it’s making a new Bayonetta title. Called Bayonetta…
MobileNews

Google Keep for Wear OS rolling out richer notes feed

December 10, 2022
Following two new tiles for sunset/sunrise and favorite contacts, Google Keep for Wear OS is beginning to roll out its updated notes feed. Keep saw a Wear OS 3/Material You redesign in September that greatly modernized the app’s look. Google is now building on that by making the notes feed richer, which starts by reflecting the background color or preset image you’ve set in the phone app. As…
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MobileNews

Google Slides now lets you ‘Follow’ people through a deck

December 10, 2022
Google wants to improve the real-time editing experience in Slides with a “Follow” feature that lets you jump to whatever page a specific user is viewing. Tapping another person’s avatar in the Google Slides top bar will let you follow and “move with them as they…
MobileNews

YouTube for Android rolling out Material You homescreen widgets [U]

December 10, 2022
Following iOS last month, YouTube for Android now offers homescreen widgets that provide quick access to search and core parts of the app. Update 12/9: After officially being announced last week, YouTube’s new Android widgets are now live with some tweaks. Namely, the microphone button to initiate a voice search is gone from both homescreen objects, while some sizing tweaks have been made.
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