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Mario Kart Tour real-time multiplayer for iOS launches to everyone on March 8

Nintendo has announced this evening that Mario Kart Tour on iOS is officially adding real-time multiplayer support next week. This comes after a beta testing program that ran in December. Unlike the beta program, however, Mario Kart Tour multiplayer will actually be available to all users. Mario Kart Tour real-time multiplayer will officially launch on March 8 at 8 p.m. PT, Nintendo announced…
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'Mario Kart Tour' multiplayer goes live on March 8th

As soon as Mario Kart Tour brought Nintendo’s racing game to Androids and iPhones last fall, one of the major complaints was its lack of multiplayer. Firing shells or dropping banana peels to disrupt your friends is most of the appeal, and now everyone will be able to…
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Apple reliance on China on display as iPhone 11 production reportedly failed in India

A new report from the today details Apple’s dependency on China for its supply chain, and how that is unlikely to change in the near future. According to the report, some Apple executives suggested relocating manufacturing of at least one product to Vietnam, but the idea was “rebuffed” by senior management. The report explains that operations executives at Apple suggested “as early as…
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HTC’s Vive Pro Eye headset drops to $799 as lower-end model sells out

HTC’s $999 VR headset Vive Pro Eye has been targeted specifically at enterprises since it debuted last year, augmenting the older Vive Pro model with integrated Tobii eye tracking at a premium. Following a similar January price drop on the Vive Pro, HTC today cut the Vive Pro Eye’s MSRP to $799, effectively enabling customers to purchase the deluxe model at the former price of its…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Podcast: Solving AI’s black box problem

What happens when you don’t know why a smart system made a specific decision? AI’s infamous black box system is a big problem, whether you’re an engineer debugging a system or a person wondering why a facial-recognition unlock system doesn’t perform as accurately on…
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The new Facebook Messenger for iOS is much faster and takes less space on your phone

Facebook announced today that it’s starting to roll out a “faster, smaller, and simpler” version of Messenger on iOS. Facebook says the new version of the app will load twice as fast and be one-fourth the size. The rollout is supposed to happen “over the next few weeks.” In a Facebook post, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that once you have the new version, Messenger should “feel much faster…
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