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Nintendo brings back Club House Games for Switch

March 27, 2020
Nintendo is bringing back one of its better and more obscure handheld properties. The publisher announced Club House Games: 51 Worldwide Classics is coming to Nintendo Switch on June 5. This is a followup to the excellent Clubhouse Games for Nintendo DS from 2006. 51 tabletop classics are coming together on #NintendoSwitch in #ClubhouseGames: 51 Worldwide Classics! Play games like Mancala…
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Samsung Galaxy A71 5G photos published by TENAA

March 27, 2020
The Samsung Galaxy A71 5G listing on TENAA has been updated with photos of the device. It shouldn’t surprise you to hear that not much has changed externally. Actually, the dimensions and weight are slightly different, though nothing that you would notice just by…
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IBM’s AI generates new footage from video stills

March 27, 2020
A paper coauthored by researchers at IBM describes an AI system — Navsynth — that generates videos seen during training, as well as unseen videos. While this in and of itself isn’t novel — it’s an acute area of interest for Alphabet’s DeepMind and others — the researchers say the approach produces superior quality videos compared with existing methods. If the claim holds water, their…
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You can now mirror and control your iPhone on a Dell PC

March 25, 2020
We learned back in January that Dell was working on a feature that would allow you to control your iPhone from one of the company’s Windows PCs, and that ability is now available … If you’re an iPhone user with a modern Dell computer, you can now mirror your phone’s…
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Nintendo Switch Pro doesn’t need 4K — it needs HDR, 120Hz, and an SSD

March 25, 2020
Nintendo says it has no plans to release a new model of its hybrid home/handheld Switch system this year. But president Shuntaro Furukawa said something similar in an interview in January 2019, and then company launched the Switch Lite in September. But even if the next Switch revision isn’t coming this holiday, the company probably has another Switch in the works. Switch is selling well for…
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The ending of Doom Eternal

March 25, 2020
I’ll give it to the developers at id Software. They really know how to stretch out an ending. I’ve played through Doom Eternal on the easy setting, and I’ve included two videos of the actual ending in this post. And it feels like he ending goes on for a long time…
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Doom Eternal has the best launch weekend in franchise history

March 25, 2020
Bethesda announced today that Doom Eternal has had the best launch weekend of any game in the franchise’s history. The publisher did not specify how many copies it sold, but Bethesda did note that the launch weekend doubled the launch weekend revenue for the last entry in…
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DarwinAI wants to help identify coronavirus in x-rays, but radiologists aren’t convinced

March 25, 2020
Canadian startup DarwinAI and researchers from the University of Waterloo are open-sourcing COVID-Net, a convolutional neural network made for detecting COVID-19 in x-ray imagery. Since coronavirus emerged as a threat to people around the world, a global community of healthcare and AI researchers have produced a number of AI systems for identifying COVID-19 in CT scans. Companies from Alibaba to…
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