GamingNews

Bobby Kotick apologizes for ‘tone deaf’ response to sex discrimination charges at Activision Blizzard

July 28, 2021
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick apologized for the “tone deaf” company response to allegations of sex discrimination at the big video game publisher. In a statement to all employees, Kotick said that he appreciated the courage of all of the employees who have come forward with their own complaints in the wake…
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AI & RoboticsNews

InVia Robotics raises $30M for warehouse robotics push

July 28, 2021
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. InVia Robotics, an industrial robotics company based in Los Angeles, California, today announced it has raised $30 million in a series C round co-led by Microsoft’s M12 Ventures and Qualcomm…
AI & RoboticsNews

Can you teach AI common sense?

July 28, 2021
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Even before they speak their first words, human babies develop mental models about objects and people. This is one of the key capabilities that allows us humans to learn to live socially and…
MobileNews

Discord launches long-awaited Threads feature on iOS and Mac

July 28, 2021
After introducing the Replies function last fall, Discord is now launching a new Threads feature to keep the conversation more organized in big channels. Threads are available on multiple platforms, like iMessage, Slack, and Twitter, but if by any chance you don’t use these platforms, here’s how Discord describes it: “A Thread is a quick way to branch a conversation off of a channel’s…
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MobileNews

Some Siri commands for third-party apps will stop working with iOS 15

July 28, 2021
Apple today sent out an email to developers letting them know that a handful of Siri intents are no longer supported. If customers invoke these commands via Siri for a supporting app in iOS 15 or later, Siri will simply reply that the request cannot be handled. Affected Siri domains include ride booking, configuration of vehicles via Siri over CarPlay, and third-party Photo Search. Many of these…
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MobileNews

Apple warns supply constraints will impact iPhone and iPad this fall

July 28, 2021
Apple just reported a monster earnings release for the third fiscal quarter of 2021, with $81.43 billion in revenue, up 36 percent year over year, and profit of $21.74 billion. Looking ahead to Q4 2021, however, Apple cautioned that supply constraints are likely to impact the iPhone and iPad in particular… During Apple’s earnings call with analysts today, CEO Tim Cook and CFO Luca Maestri…
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