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Report: Apple rejecting coronavirus iOS apps that aren’t from ‘recognized institutions’

Apple is taking a firm stance against coronavirus applications that aren’t from “recognized institutions,” a new report from CNBC says. According to the report, Apple is trying to prevent the spread of misinformation with this policy. For the report, spoke to four independent developers who had applications related to coronavirus rejected from the App Store. The applications in question…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Microsoft’s AI generates 3D objects from 2D images

The AI research labs at Facebook, Nvidia, and startups like Threedy.ai have at various points tried their hand at the challenge of 2D-object-to-3D-shape conversion. But in a new preprint paper, a team hailing from Microsoft Research detail a framework that they claim is the…
GamingNews

Call of Duty Endowment placed 11,000 veterans into jobs in 2019

In 2019, the Call of Duty Endowment placed more than 11,000 veterans into high-quality jobs and raised funding to place 16,000 more. Now in its tenth year, the charitable group said it has placed more than 66,000 veterans into jobs to date, thanks to help from grantees, corporate partners, the gaming community, and Activision Blizzard employees. The organization said it is well on its way to…
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MobileNews

Project Sandcastle brings Android to older iPhone models w/ more promised soon

If you ever wanted to run Android on an iPhone — we don’t know why either — then thanks to Project Sandcastle, you can. Just yesterday we saw that there is a way to run the checkra1n jailbreak on Android to jailbreak your iOS devices. With that in mind, why not go the whole hog and run Android on an iPhone? It’s not something we’d ever suggest doing, but at present, if you have an iPhone…
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GamingNews

Google Stadia is rolling out 4K streaming on the web

Google is finally fulfilling a key promise for Stadia by rolling out 4K gaming on the web, according to 9to5Google and several Reddit users. You’ll need a Stadia Pro subscription and fast internet connection to use the feature, with Google specifying a minimum “excellent” connection over 35Mbps. However, 9to5Google reports that it was able to get 4K working with…
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