Chrono Trigger turned 25 on March 11, which has had me thinking about this classic Japanese role-playing game (whenever I’m not spending my time freaking out about the current worldwide pandemic, anyway).
I don’t know many JRPG fans who wouldn’t put Chrono Trigger in their top 5. It was a collaboration between Square and Enix back before they were one company. This resulted in many of the…
How to set up hourly reminders on iPhone and Apple Watch to wash your hands and stop touching your face
March 13, 2020
With the coronavirus outbreak becoming more serious in the US and around the world, you’ve likely heard many times about the important steps to stay healthy and curb the spread of the virus, like washing your hands often (and well) and not touching your face. However…
AI Weekly: Coronavirus spurs adoption of AI-powered candidate recruitment and screening tools
March 13, 2020
As COVID-19 continues to spread — as of the time of writing (March 12), there were over 139,600 confirmed cases and over 5,100 deaths — companies are increasingly adopting alternatives to in-person job interviews and talent recruitment. Recruiters PageGroup and Robert…
Google’s Neural Tangents library gives ‘unprecedented’ insights into AI models’ behavior
March 13, 2020
Google today made available Neural Tangents, an open source software library written in JAX, a system for high-performance machine learning research. It’s intended to help build AI models of variable width simultaneously, which Google says could allow “unprecedented” insight into the models’ behavior and “help … open the black box” of machine learning.
As Google senior research…
Microsoft’s “Your Phone” app has become a powerful tool for Windows 10 users who also have an Android phone, and now, it’s getting even better. With an update rolling out now, Samsung Galaxy S20 users can copy and paste clipboard content between Windows and Android…
Apple announces WWDC 2020 coming in June as an ‘online experience’: Apple will reveal iOS 14 ...
March 13, 2020
Apple has just announced WWDC for 2020, coming in June (no exact date specified). The conference will be presented as what Apple calls a completely new online experience, confirming that a physical event will not be happening this year due to coronavirus concerns.
In the…
Instead of just the grid of app icons, there will be a new page or new mode so users can look at their apps in a top-to-bottom scrolling list. Now, some intrepid readers have made mockups of what that might look like.
Apple has traditionally not changed the home screen on iOS very much. The grid of apps is tried and tested, familiar to users, and dates all the way back to the original…
The OnePlus 8 series is highly anticipated, and there have already been a few leaks to date. Today, we’re getting two more notable bits of information about the device. The OnePlus 8 launch date is April 15, and, would you look at that, Robert Downey Jr was photographed…
Eigen Technologies, a U.K. startup that offers natural language processing (NLP) technology to help companies extract meaningful data from documents, has closed a $42 million series B round of funding. This includes a fresh $5 million tranche from Dutch finance giant ING…
Google Ads app gains a dedicated dark mode on Android
March 13, 2020
Google has now officially updated the Google Ads app with its own dedicated dark mode, giving it parity with the growing array of darkened Android and iOS apps.
With Android 10 finally giving the people what they want, with a system-wide dark mode, it would stand to reason that Google would update all of the first-party apps to include a darker design. However, apps like Google Ads and a few…
