GamingNews

Roblox shows new bits of the metaverse to its developers

October 14, 2021
Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Roblox doesn’t want to create the metaverse, the universe of virtual worlds that are all interconnected, like in novels such as Snow Crash and Ready Player One. Instead, it wants its users to create the metaverse. And today it showed developers more tools that are like…
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Nikon Designs Two f/1.2 Zoom Lenses: 35-50mm and 50-70mm

October 14, 2021
Two Nikon patents have surfaced that show the company has designed two large-aperture zoom lenses presumably for its mirrorless Z-mount camera system: a 35-50mm f/1.2 and a 50-70mm f/1.2. Originally found by Asibonet (which was spotted by Mirrorless Rumors), the two patents…
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Facebook introduces dataset and benchmarks to make AI more ‘egocentric’

October 14, 2021
Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Facebook today announced Ego4D, a long-term project aimed at solving AI research challenges in “egocentric perception,” or first-person views. The goal is to teach AI systems to comprehend and interact with the world like humans do as opposed to in the third-person, omniscient…
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MobileNews

Twitter is testing inserting ads into conversations on iOS

October 14, 2021
Twitter has announced it’s conducting a new test with some users in which ads start to appear in the middle of conversations. The announcement was made by Twitter’s revenue product lead Bruce Falck (via the Verge). According to Falck, if you’re part of this global…
MobileNews

Samsung’s new Weather homescreen widget feels right at home in Android 12

October 14, 2021
Samsung is chugging along with its work on bringing its take on Android 12 to the public, and the company has also quietly introduced a new weather widget for the homescreen. The new “Dynamic Weather” widget comes with Samsung’s Android 12 update, though it’s unclear exactly when the widget was added. The updated design opens the same now-ad-free Weather app as before, but with a…
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Apple cuts iPhone 13 production estimates due to chip shortage

October 14, 2021
The ongoing chip crisis is apparently now big enough to even reach Apple – and this time we’re not talking about smartwatches, but the company’s main cash cow, the iPhone. According to a new report from , Apple is likely to slash its projected production targets for the iPhone 13 family for 2021 by as many as 10 million units. This is happening because of prolonged chip…
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