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Konami officially revealed three new games in the Silent Hill series in a special event today: Silent Hill: Ascension, Silent Hill: Townfall and Silent Hill: F. This is in addition to the remake of Silent Hill 2…
EA Sports invests $11M in women’s soccer fund, UEFA internships
October 20, 2022
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EA Sports unveiled sweeping plans to invest in the future of women’s soccer, both…
The Google Home app is set to see a major redesign in the coming months but, ahead of that, Google is opening up a whole new world of automation. This week, some Google Home app users are noticing support for device triggers on Assistant routines.
Google Assistant routines…
Android 13 (Go edition) announced with Material You, Google Play System Updates, and more
October 20, 2022
Google announced and detailed Android 13 (Go edition) today with several sizable changes to the user experience and underlying technical functionality grouped under “reliability, usability and customization” tentpoles.
It starts with Material You and wallpaper-derived Dynamic Color generating “four corresponding color schemes to choose from” (instead of 16 on the full release). Google…
Microsoft wants to take on the Google Play Store and App Store with its own mobile game store
October 20, 2022
Both Google and Apple have come under regulatory scrutiny over the past few years due to practices with their respective mobile app stores and the lack of competition. As it turns out, Microsoft has been quietly working on its own mobile game store that would take on the…
Amid the work-from-home era, Google’s Area 120 incubator released Threadit to boost team collaboration with video messages that could be replied to at any time. This project is shutting down soon, but the Threadit team is joining Google Workspace.
Threadit wanted to do…
Meta AI announces first AI-powered speech translation system for an unwritten language
October 20, 2022
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Artificial speech translation is a rapidly emerging artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Initially created to aid communication among people who speak different languages, this speech-to-speech translation technology (S2ST) has found its way into several domains. For…
Microsoft wants to build an Xbox-branded mobile game store
October 20, 2022
Microsoft wants to bring a taste of Xbox game shopping to your phone. As The Verge explains, a company filing with the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has revealed plans to build a “next generation” Xbox store that’s available on mobile…
Meta's AI translator can interpret unwritten languages
October 20, 2022
Nearly half of the world’s roughly 7,000 known languages four in ten of them exist without an accompanying written component. These unwritten languages pose a unique problem for modern machine learning translation systems, as they typically need to convert verbal speech to…
Google’s Material You design language has been available since Android 12, but you wouldn’t know it if you bought an entry Go Edition phone stuck with the old look. Thankfully, Google is finally bringing that aesthetic to lower-cost handset. The newly announced Android 13 Go Edition brings Material You to these basic devices for the first time, giving you color themes that reflect your…
