DefenseNews

Australia makes another order for Boeing’s Loyal Wingman drones after a successful first flight

March 3, 2021
WASHINGTON — The Royal Australian Air Force on Tuesday signed a $115 million contract to buy three more autonomous “Loyal Wingman” drones from Boeing, raising its total order to six aircraft just days after the first system made its inaugural flight. Following a series of ground tests to validate its navigation and pilot control systems, the first Loyal Wingman — which Boeing also calls…
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GamingNews

Fortnite developer Epic buys Fall Guys studio Mediatonic

March 3, 2021
One of the most popular live-service multiplayer hits of 2020 is joining forces with Fortnite developer Epic Games. Epic announced today that it has acquired Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout studio Mediatonic. Epic and Mediatonic did not confirm the details of their deal. But…
AI & RoboticsNews

Sonantic uses AI to infuse emotion in automated speech for game prototypes

March 3, 2021
Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. Sonantic has figured out how to use AI to turn written words into spoken dialogue in a script, and it can infuse those words with the proper emotion. And it turns out this is a pretty good way to prototype the audio storytelling in triple-A video games. That’s why the Sonantic technology is finding use…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Kaskada launches platform to prep data for AI models

March 3, 2021
Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. Feature engineering, or the process of using domain knowledge to extract features from data, is essential to tuning AI and machine learning performance. It’s also typically arduous and involves rewriting features before they’re deployed. Often, a missing piece is infrastructure that bridges the gap…
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MobileNews

iOS: How to customize Control Center on iPhone and iPad

March 3, 2021
Control Center customization first arrived with iOS 11 and has improved since then. Follow along for how to customize Control Center on iPhone and iPad. Control Center has become more and more useful over the years with more options you can quickly access by pulling down…
MobileNews

iOS 14.5 beta 3 now available to developers with Music app changes and more

March 3, 2021
Update #2: iOS 14.5 beta 3 is now available again, this time also via an OTA update. Update: Apple has pulled the third developer beta of iOS 14.5. It is no longer available from the Developer website. iOS 14.5 beta 3 is rolling out to registered developers today, coming two weeks after the release of iOS 14.5 beta 2. iOS 14.5 packs a variety of new features including the ability to unlock your…
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