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Apple faces backlash for using the DMCA to take down tweet containing iPhone encryption key

December 12, 2019
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'Forza Horizon 4' is getting a 72-car battle royale mode

December 12, 2019
Are video games legal any more if they don’t have a battle royale mode? Even Civilization VI joined the fray a few months back. The latest game to hop into the battle royale arena, including the shrinking play area popularized by PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and…
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Twitter will now let you post iOS Live Photos as GIFs

December 11, 2019
Live Photos are one of Apple’s signature camera options on iOS, making your photos look like one of the living photographs in Harry Potter. But if you’ve tried to post that Live Photo on Twitter, it would render as a still photo, taking away some of that magic. You could use an app to convert that Live Photo into a GIF and post that new GIF on its own, but that might be more work than you’d…
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MobileNews

Twitter lets you upload iOS Live Photos as GIFs at last

December 11, 2019
Twitter is offering iOS users another way to get more out of Live Photos by letting you turn them into GIFs “anywhere you upload photos on Twitter.” It’s not clear whether this’ll work for Pixel motion photos as well. Engadget has asked Twitter for…
GamingNews

Forza Horizon 4 gets Eliminator battle royale mode

December 11, 2019
The Eliminator is coming to Forza Horizon 4. While that might sound like a 1980s vehicle-based TV action series, it’s actually the game’s new free battle royale. This is part of Microsoft’s continued efforts to support the open-world driving game with regular content drops. The Eliminator launches December 12. In this last-car-driving mode, up to 72 players enter a world with the goal of…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Why explainable AI is indispensable to Zillow’s business

December 11, 2019
Zillow, an online marketplace that facilitates the buying, selling, renting, financing, and remodeling of homes, employs lots of AI technologies to do things like estimate home prices. But the output of AI systems like these can be opaque, creating a “black box” problem where practitioners and customers can’t audit the systems properly. Without transparency, serious problems like algorithmic…
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