In the latest development of the legal battle between Apple and Epic Games, the Fortnite developer announced it has filed for a preliminary injunction that would put its game back in the app store and restore its developer account.
Today we asked the Court to stop Apple’s retaliation against Epic for daring to challenge its unlawful restrictions while our antitrust case proceeds. This is a…
Nvidia’s DLSS AI-upscaling SDK now supports VR
September 5, 2020
Nvidia’s DLSS neural upscaling technology now works with virtual reality titles.
In a Reddit comment yesterday Nvidia’s Randy Niu revealed the change. It’s also now listed in the DLSS Unreal Engine changelog.
Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) uses the Tensor cores…
Read Epic’s new, full argument why a court should force Apple to reinstate Fortnite
September 5, 2020
Shortly before midnight on the Friday before Labor Day weekend — we’re curious about the timing — Epic Games pushed the button on its next legal action against Apple’s ban on the immensely popular Fortnite.
There was no question that Epic would file for a…
Hands-on: iOS 14 beta 7 changes and features [Video]
September 5, 2020
Yesterday Apple released the seventh iOS 14 beta, and it comes bundled with a couple of noteworthy updates. Watch our brief hands-on video walkthrough as we explore new iOS 14 beta 7 changes and features.
What’s new in iOS 14 beta 7?
Updated App Library categories
New wallpaper
Although there clearly aren’t a ton of new iOS 14 beta 7 changes and features, the few changes that do stand out…
My wife bought a toy game controller for our baby girl. I couldn’t have been prouder. Our six-month old already loved to drum her feet on my DualShock 4 — a born gamer.
So I started absentmindedly fiddling with the so-called “Fisher-Price Game & Learn,”…
Teenage Engineering's next product is probably a Bluetooth speaker
September 5, 2020
When Teenage Engineering started teasing it was working on a “magic apparatus,” people got understandably excited. After all, this is the company that has released some of the most offbeat but capable synths (and IKEA products) in the last couple of years, and…
Doom and Doom II get official widescreen support, 27 years later
September 5, 2020
Doom is the game that just won’t die, no matter how many times you blast those demons away — and owner Bethesda has seen fit to give the 27-year-old original quite a number of upgrades this year. After adding 60fps support and community-made add-ons in January, the re-released Doom and Doom II are now getting official 16:9 widescreen support as well.
According to a Bethesda blog post (via…
NVIDIA's RTX 3000 cards make counting teraflops pointless
September 5, 2020
Teraflops have been a popular way to measure “graphical power” for years. The term refers to the number of calculations a GPU can perform, but while it’s been on spec sheets forever, more recently the teraflop has gone mainstream, appearing in marketing…
How to watch Disney’s live-action Mulan on Apple TV, iPhone, iPad
September 5, 2020
Disney has remade Mulan as a live-action film, and it’s premiering access to the movie through its Disney+ streaming service on Apple devices as well as Roku, Android, and others. Follow along for how to watch Disney’s Mulan on Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, and more.
Disney…
In a new report called “Regulating Biometrics: Global Approaches and Urgent Questions,” the AI Now Institute says that there’s a growing sense among regulation advocates that a biometric surveillance state is not inevitable.
The release of AI Now’s report couldn’t be more timely. As the pandemic drags on into the fall, businesses, government agencies, and schools are desperate for…
