Nintendo is telling partner developers it’s not going to hold one of its Nintendo Direct video events in June. The publisher has had a June Direct to correspond with E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo) every year since 2013. And before that, it held annual stage presentations. But complications brought about from Japan’s work-from-home order as part of its attempts to mitigate COVID-19 are…
LinkedIn today announced a new AI-powered feedback tool for people practicing answers to job interview questions. The Microsoft-owned company claims that in early tests, it resulted in a “significant increase” in LinkedIn members rehearsing their answers.
The tool taps…
HTC has launched a virtual reality (VR) collaboration and meeting app to capitalize on the rapid shift to remote working brought about by COVID-19.
Vive Sync, as the new app is called, debuted back in 2018, and the Taiwanese tech company has been piloting the service with a…
Resistant AI has raised $2.75 million in venture capital to develop an artificial intelligence system that protects algorithms from automated attacks.
Index Ventures and Credo Ventures led the investment, which also included participation by Seedcamp; Daniel Dines, CEO of UiPath; and Michal Pechoucek, CTO of Avast. The Prague-based company focuses on the growing problem of hackers harnessing AI…
Recent platform updates to Google’s game streaming service have focused on making the web experience match playing on Chromecast. A server-side update today lets the Stadia Controller ‘capture’ screenshots and video clips on Android.
Up until today, tapping the…
How to manage COVID-19 exposure notifications on iPhone
April 30, 2020
Apple and Google have partnered on offering a secure and private coronavirus contact tracing implementation on iOS and Android. Follow along for where to find the on/off toggle for COVID-19 contact tracing on iPhone in iOS settings.
Anonymous COVID-19 contact tracing via…
Google today launched Google Duplex, its AI chat agent that can arrange appointments over the phone, in Spain to automate the updating of business hours across Google Search and Google Maps. For the first time, it’s speaking in Spanish — Duplex previously only spoke in English.
The expansion follows a pilot in New New Zealand and Duplex’s quiet expansion to the U.K., Australia, and Canada.
Gmail on the web has long recapped key details about flights and other travel arrangements at the top of emails. A similar summary capability with expanded use cases and card-based UI is now coming to Gmail for Android and iOS.
When you receive a flight confirmation or…
With everyone stuck at home, more and more people are resorting to video chat tools like FaceTime to stay connected. Apple is adding a new setting in iOS 13.5 to improve the experience on a busy Group FaceTime call…
While Zoom has become the frontrunner for business…
Ubisoft announces Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla
April 29, 2020
Ubisoft revealed Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla, the next installment in the history-spanning action-adventure franchise. As the name suggests, it will feature vikings (or just the Norse, depending on how much raiding and pirating the game contains).
A full reveal will happen at 8 a.m. Pacific tomorrow, April 30. That should give us a better idea of what to expect, but it’s safe to assume that…
