GamingNews

Nintendo is exploring ways to use AR

January 13, 2020
We might see new Nintendo AR experiences in the near future, perhaps either on the company’s Switch handheld (maybe something like its VR Labo kit) or on mobile. Speaking in a recent interview with Nikkei (as reported by TweakTown), Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa said that AR is “one of the many aspects we are interested in.” “Our hardware development teams evaluate all kinds…
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19 Valve Index and SteamVR games to watch in 2020

January 13, 2020
It’s a new year and there are a heap of upcoming Valve Index games to look forward to. Valve’s premium VR headset emerged as arguably the best device on the market in 2019. Its launch was propped up with hundreds of existing SteamVR games to experience all over again…
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Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX is coming to Switch

January 13, 2020
Nintendo announced today during its latest Direct broadcast that a remake of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team is coming to Switch on March 6. Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX also has a demo releasing for Switch today. Yup, today, so you can try it for…
AI & RoboticsNews

Brazil is emerging as a world-class AI innovation hub

January 13, 2020
Brazil’s government has big plans for AI, despite having come late to the party. In Oxford Insights’ AI Readiness Index 2019, Brazil was ranked 40 out of 192 countries, a sign that the South American powerhouse is moving up in the AI world. The report looks at how ready countries are to take advantage of the AI technologies PwC forecasts will add $15 trillion to the global economy by 2030. The…
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MobileNews

LG G9 case renders leak, confirming the design

January 9, 2020
Renders of a transparent case for the LG G9 have leaked, perfectly matching the OnLeaks renders. However, there may have been some confusion – this might actually be the LG V60 (the back panel of which we saw yesterday). Either way, chances are that the G9 and V60 will…
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Corvus raises $32 million to inject AI into insurance products

January 9, 2020
Cyber risk, which commonly refers to any risk of financial loss, disruption, or damage to the reputation of an organization resulting from the failure of its systems, is one of the top five concerns among IT teams, according to a Microsoft survey. That’s not surprising considering that the average cost of a cyber attack was $1.1 million in 2018, an increase of 52% from 2017. It’s with this in…
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MobileNews

DuckDuckGo trumps Bing in Google’s controversial Android ‘choice screen’ search engine auction

January 9, 2020
Google has announced the inaugural winners of its controversial Android “choice screen” search engine auction in Europe, with privacy-focused Google alternative DuckDuckGo emerging as one of the big winners. Microsoft’s Bing, by contrast, languished. DuckDuckGo will be one of three alternative search engines offered by Google during new Android phone setups in every European country, while…
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