MobileNews

DetailsPro is a new app that lets developers create SwiftUI projects on iPhone and iPad

September 11, 2020
Apple doesn’t offer any developer tools for iOS users besides Swift Playgrounds, but there are some great third-party options available that let developers start a project right on an iPhone or iPad. A recently released app called DetailsPro brings the tools you need to start designing an app in SwiftUI using just an iOS device. The main purpose of the app is to enable anyone to create SwiftUI…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Microsoft’s updated DeepSpeed can train trillion-parameter AI models with fewer GPUs

September 11, 2020
Microsoft today released an updated version of its DeepSpeed library that introduces a new approach to training AI models containing trillions of parameters, the variables internal to the model that inform its predictions. The company claims the technique, dubbed 3D parallelism, adapts to the varying needs of workload requirements to power extremely large models while balancing scaling…
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GamingNews

With Tell Me Why on Xbox Game Pass, episodic gaming has found its moment

September 11, 2020
Episodic gaming has always felt like an idea that was ahead of its time. For many players, it’s a compelling concept: story-driven games broken up into digestible chunks that you can play over the course of weeks or months. But the realities of game development and release schedules proved problematic. Telltale Games, the studio behind episodic hits like The Walking Dead and Batman, infamously…
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GamingNews

CEO Yves Guillemot apologizes for toxic employees ahead of Ubisoft Forward

September 11, 2020
Just a few hours before the start of another Ubisoft Forward livestream today, the publisher posted a video on Twitter featuring CEO Yves Guillemot apologizing for Ubisoft’s history of toxic employees and workplace problems that have come to light this year. “This summer, we learned that certain Ubisoft employees did not uphold our company’s values, and that our systems failed to protect the…
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