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Henry Cavill is right — in 2019, Total War: Warhammer is great

December 20, 2019
Creative Assembly’s Total War: Warhammer franchise has seemed to be quiet recently (apart from a shout-out from Witcher star Henry Cavill). IIts last new faction expansion, which is arguably the most newsworthy postrelease addition for a strategy game, was over a year ago. But a year of quieter additions, such as new playable lords for existing factions and major patches, has actually shifted…
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Motorola's foldable Razr delayed due to high demand

December 20, 2019
We hope you weren’t too excited about pre-ordering the revamped, foldable Motorola Razr on December 26th. The company announced today that it’s slightly delaying the phone’s pre-order and launch timing due to significant consumer demand. We don’t know…
AI & RoboticsNews

MIT and IBM develop AI that recommends documents based on topic

December 20, 2019
Even the best text-parsing recommendation algorithms can be stymied by data sets of a certain size. In an effort to to deliver faster, better classification performance than the bulk of existing methods, a team at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab and MIT’s Geometric Data Processing Group devised a technique that combines popular AI tools including embeddings and optimal transport. They say that their…
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Motorola delays foldable Razr pre-orders, launch citing high demand

December 20, 2019
You’re reading 9to5Google — experts who break news about Google and its surrounding ecosystem, day after day. Be sure to check out our homepage for all the latest news, and follow 9to5Google on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to stay in the loop. Don’t know where to start? Check out our exclusive stories, reviews, how-tos, and subscribe to our YouTube channel The original unveiling of the…
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AI Weekly: Machine learning’s role in climate change

December 20, 2019
Climate change is the most existential threat humanity faces today, and AI can solve problems in unprecedented ways. It only makes sense that we use the latter to work on the former. That was a significant sub-theme of NeurIPS 2019, highlighted in particular by the Tackling…
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Twitter fixes an Android bug that could have allowed hackers to hijack accounts

December 20, 2019
Twitter has updated its Android app to fix a security vulnerability that could have allowed someone to see nonpublic information about your account, as well as take control of it to send tweets and direct messages. According to a blog post from the company, taking advantage of the bug involved “a complicated process” of inserting malicious code into the restricted storage areas of the…
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