GamingNews

July 2021 NPD: PS5 and Switch lead the way to 10% year-over-year growth

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. U.S. consumers spent $4.6 billion on gaming in July 2021, according to industry-tracking firm The NPD Group. This is up 10% from the same period last year, and it’s also the best July the industry has seen since 2008. PlayStation 5 was the most successful console in terms of dollar sales, although the Switch actually…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Why AI ethics needs to address AI literacy, not just bias

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. When you hear about AI ethics, it’s mostly about bias. But Noelle Silver, a winner of VentureBeat’s Women in AI responsibility and ethics award, has dedicated herself to an often overlooked part of the responsible AI equation: AI literacy. “That’s my vision, is that we really increase literacy across the…
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AI & RoboticsNews

AI Weekly: The road to ethical adoption of AI

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. As new principles emerge to guide the development ethical, safe, and inclusive AI, the industry faces self-inflicted challenges. Increasingly, there are many sets of guidelines — the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s AI repository alone hosts more than 100 documents — that are vague and…
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MobileNews

iPhone with USB-C port: EU presses on with pointless law

Many of us would like to see an iPhone with USB-C port in place of Lightning, so that we can finally have a single charger type for all our main Apple devices: iPhone, iPad, and Mac. The European Union is trying to pass a law that would make this mandatory, despite the fact that it would be completely pointless… Background Way back in 2009, Apple was one of 14 tech companies to agree to switch…
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