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Microsoft will show Xbox Series X games on May 7

April 30, 2020
Microsoft announced today that it’s holding an event at 8 a.m. Pacific on May 7, showing games running on the Xbox Series X next-generation console for the first time. At this point, we’ve seen a decent amount about the system. We know what the console and controller look like, and we’ve gotten a glimpse at the specs. But we still haven’t seen any games running on the machine, although we…
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MobileNews

Google Duo for Android prepares to support calls without a phone number

April 30, 2020
Google Duo makes video calls pretty easy, but there’s still a roadblock or two to getting users going. Now, it appears Google Duo is preparing to solve one of those issues by allowing users to make calls without a phone number. Jane Wong spotted a setting Google has not yet rolled out to the Duo app for Android. That new setting enables others to contact you on Google Duo using just your email…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Duolingo’s AI drives its English proficiency tests

April 30, 2020
Language learning startup Duolingo leverages AI and machine learning to create and score English proficiency tests automatically, reveals a paper published in the journal Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics. In it, researchers peel back the curtains…
GamingNews

No Nintendo Direct planned for June due to work-from-home hurdles

April 30, 2020
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…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Resistant AI raises $2.75 million to protect algorithms from adversarial attacks

April 30, 2020
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…
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