GamingNews

Rockstar Games will donate 5% of GTA Online and Red Dead Online revenue to fight coronavirus

April 1, 2020
The next time you spend money in GTA Online’s Diamond casino, you can feel good about it. Rockstar Games said it will donate 5% of revenue for GTA Online and Red Dead Online for the next month to fight the coronavirus. Rockstar said that “community is at the center of everything we do.” It added, “As our teams navigate these difficult times, we see our local communities across North…
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MobileNews

Best weather apps for Android now that Dark Sky is dead

April 1, 2020
If you’ve ever looked for a good weather app, Dark Sky was probably on the list of recommendations. That’s well-deserved as the app was well built on both Android and iOS with a clean design, great features, and excellent weather forecasts too. Now, Apple has acquired…
MobileNews

How to use a USB mic with Android

April 1, 2020
Can you use a USB mic with Android? Using an external microphone with your Android smartphone used to be pretty straightforward. All you had to do was plug one into the headphone jack. Now, however, that very jack is going the way of the Dodo. So if you want to use an…
MobileNews

Concept imagines a redesigned Weather app for iOS based on Dark Sky

April 1, 2020
In a truly unexpected move, Apple announced today that it has acquired the popular Dark Sky weather app. While the company says there will be no changes to Dark Sky for iOS at this time, we can expect Apple to integrate the app with its own Weather solution for iOS. With that in mind, designer Parker Ortolani has created a concept that imagines what the Apple’s Weather app would look like by…
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MobileNews

iOS: How to scan documents with the Notes app

March 31, 2020
Apple has been improving its Notes app each year, and the ability to scan documents within the app in iOS is better than ever. Follow along after the break for a look at how this useful feature works. Apple has done a nice job implementing document scanning seamlessly into Notes. It works well and is quick and easy to use. I love having my scans synchronized across all of my Apple devices and…
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AI & RoboticsNews

MIT CSAIL’s CommPlan AI helps robots efficiently collaborate with humans

March 31, 2020
In a new study, researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab propose a framework called CommPlan, which gives robots that work alongside humans principles for “good etiquette” and leave it to the robots to make decisions that let them finish tasks efficiently. They claim it’s a superior approach to handcrafted rules, because it enables the robots to perform…
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