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Publix now lets you buy your Pub Sub and groceries with Apple Pay on iPhone or Apple Watch

March 31, 2020
Shopping at Publix may be a pleasure, but checking out at the grocery store chain has been a bit archaic for the last five years. The retailer waited half a decade to acknowledge Apple Pay, but the contactless payment service may finally be accepted by the grocery store chain. No better time than a social distancing mandate to embrace contactless payments from 2014 for buying your Pub Sub…
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GamingNews

DeepMind’s Agent57 beats humans at 57 classic Atari games

March 31, 2020
In a preprint paper published this week by DeepMind, Google parent company Alphabet’s U.K.-based research division, a team of scientists describe Agent57, which they say is the first system that outperforms humans on all 57 Atari games in the Arcade Learning Environment…
AI & RoboticsNews

Perceive emerges from stealth with Ergo edge AI chip

March 31, 2020
On-device computing solutions startup Perceive emerged from stealth today with its first product: the Ergo edge processor for AI inference. CEO Steve Teig claims the chip, which is designed for consumer devices like security cameras, connected appliances, and mobile phones…
AI & RoboticsNews

AI lifecycle management startup Cnvrg.io launches free community tier

March 31, 2020
Cnvrg.io, a data science startup headquartered in Jerusalem and New York, today released a community version of its machine learning automation platform designed to help enterprises manage and scale AI. CEO Yochay Ettun says the release was motivated in part by the influx of social distancing and remote work stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. “The release of cnvrg.io CORE is our contribution…
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GamingNews

Atari’s Pong Quest turns the classic paddle game into an RPG

March 31, 2020
Atari is taking a break from building hotels because … well, the world is taking a break from hotels. In the interim, the publisher is bringing back one of the original gaming franchises. Pong Quest is a new entry in the ball-and-paddle series that remixes the action with a role-playing quest. Pong Quest is launching this spring for Steam, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4. The game…
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GamingNews

GameRefinery: Revenues and competition are heating up in mobile RPGs

March 31, 2020
GameRefinery has released a snapshot report of the mobile role-playing game (RPG) genre for the first quarter of 2020. And the evaluation of 200 features in 2,000 games shows how the competition is increasing and revenues growing in the genre. The report from the mobile game insight and analytics firm said that RPGs generate about 12% of all revenue among iOS games. Traditionally, licensed brands…
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