In a big move to improve its weather app, Apple has purchased the highly popular iOS app Dark Sky. Along with the acquisition comes the end of Dark Sky for Android as well as an end to the API that’s used by popular apps like Carrot Weather, and more.
Dark Sky announced the news in a blog post today. The news will certainly mean much improved native weather app for iOS but also brings with it…
Minecraft Dungeons builds a May 26 release date
March 31, 2020
Microsoft announced today that Minecraft Dungeons will release on May 26 for PC, PlayStation 4, Switch, and Xbox One.
Minecraft Dungeons is an action role-playing game take on the franchise. Four players can explore randomly generated dungeons together with up to four total…
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 remaster launches on PS4
March 31, 2020
Activision confirmed one of its worst-kept secrets: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered is now out on the PlayStation 4.
The move surprised no one, as the trailer leaked via a PlayStation Store listing, and other details of the remaster were exposed by a data…
Huawei wants Google apps in its ‘AppGallery’ store
March 31, 2020
Due to the US government adding Huawei to the Entity List, the Chinese smartphone maker has been unable to use Google apps on its smartphones. As a result, Huawei has been building out its “AppGallery” store for devices like the P40 Pro, but Huawei still wants Google apps in that store.
Speaking to CNBC, Huawei chairman Eric Xu said that the company has seen a pretty huge hit as a result of…
Samsung’s Galaxy S20 Ultra brings a ton to the table, but for an enthusiast phone, its design is rather boring. To give the look some new life, Samsung is apparently adding a new color variant in the not-too-distant future, but we just don’t know which one the Galaxy S20…
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…
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 data set.
Assuming the claim holds water, Agent57 could lay the groundwork for more capable AI decision-making models than have…
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…
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…
ModelOp, a startup developing AI software and development services for enterprises, today announced that it has raised $6 million. It plans to use the capital to support demand for its products in a market that IDC anticipates will be worth $8 billion by 2022.
The term ModelOps refers to the process of cycling analytical models from data science teams to production teams in a cadence of deployment…
