MobileNews

This week’s top stories: Galaxy Note 20 preorders, Oppo Wear OS watch, AT&T upgrade warning

July 26, 2020
In this week’s top stories: Samsung opens pre-orders for the Galaxy Note 20, Oppo teases their next smartwatch built on Google’s Wear OS, AT&T sends upgrade warning to its customers entirely too early, and more. With the August 5th Samsung Unpacked event still a few weeks away, Samsung has opened registration for pre-orders for the . If you sign up, you’ll even be given $50 in “instant…
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AI & RoboticsNews

AI Weekly: The promise and shortcomings of OpenAI’s GPT-3

July 25, 2020
I typically think of the dog days of summer as a time when news slows down. It’s typically when a lot of people take time off work, and the lull leads local news stations to cover inconsequential things like cat shows or a little baby squirrel on a little baby Jet Ski. But these are not typical times. Fallout surrounding issues of bias and discrimination continues at Facebook, as multiple news…
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GamingNews

EA Mobile reels in Jeff Karp from Big Fish Games

July 24, 2020
Jeff Karp, the president of mobile game maker Big Fish Games, has resigned from that post to become the head of Electronic Arts’ mobile game division, GamesBeat has learned. Yes, I have to make the joke. EA has gone fishing, and it has landed a Karp from Big Fish. EA did…
AI & RoboticsNews

Researchers’ AI system infers music from silent videos of musicians

July 24, 2020
In a study accepted to the upcoming 2020 European Conference on Computer Vision, MIT and MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab researchers describe an AI system — Foley Music — that can generate “plausible” music from silent videos of musicians playing instruments. They say it works on a variety of music performances and outperforms “several” existing systems in generating music that’s pleasant to…
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GamingNews

Xbox Games Showcase: Microsoft comes out in force

July 24, 2020
Microsoft showed off an amazing array of games at its Xbox Games Showcase today to prepare fans for the holiday launch of the Xbox Series X game console. The company didn’t disclose the launch date or price of the new hardware, as it focused on just games today. Microsoft…
MobileNews

Apple offers security researchers modified iPhones to find iOS flaws

July 23, 2020
(Reuters) — Apple on Wednesday invited security researchers to apply to receive modified iPhones designed to help them hunt for flaws in the company’s mobile operating system. The phones will let the researchers run any programs on them and give those programs any access to the data on the device, making it easier for outside security experts to probe iOS software. Apple had promised the…
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