Fortnite was still the most-watch game on livestreaming platform Twitch in the third quarter, but the hours watched on the platform declined.
During the quarter, the most notable change here is the sharp increase in the number of hours watched for World of Warcraft. With the release of WoW Classic at the end of August, users watched 189.9 million hours of WoW content in Q3, nearly 100 million more…
Machines have a tougher time summarizing text than you’d think, at least where the summarization is abstractive rather than extractive. While the extraction requires merely concatenating sentences, abstraction involves the task of paraphrasing using novel sentences.
Twitch is officially available on the Apple TV
October 7, 2019
As of today, the official Twitch app is finally available on Apple TV. The app has been available for consoles, mobile devices and Android TV boxes for years, but Apple TV owners were forced to use third-party apps. Last month, Twitch released a public beta of its Apple…
I had only a few minutes to play with the iPhone 11 Pro camera on release day, taking just a few hand-held iPhone night photos to test Night Mode.
But a couple of readers made a good point in response. Although the vast, vast majority of iPhone photos will be handheld, it wasn’t fair to compare the results against a DSLR or mirrorless camera when those were tripod-mounted 30-second exposures.
The Sony Xperia 8 is a Japanese exclusive mid-ranger
October 7, 2019
Sony Mobile has quietly announced the brand new Xperia 8 smartphone but the mid-range device is only expected to be available in the company’s native Japan.
Taking the design language of the Xperia 10, the Xperia 8 comes with the Snapdragon 630 chipset, 4GB of RAM and…
Sony has confirmed that PS4 Remote Play is set to come to all Android phones running Android 5.0 and later this week as part of the console’s version 7.00 system update.
Previously, the PS4 Remote Play app was only available to those with compatible or supported Sony…
The OnePlus 7T Pro is just a few short days away, but that hasn’t stopped official-looking press renders from leaking and exposing the design and new color.
Teenage leaker Ishan Argawal shared the OnePlus 7T Pro press renders on his Twitter account, which could easily be mistaken for the already released OnePlus 7 Pro. If you were hoping for an overhaul, then you may be disappointed.
Earlier…
Spotify has today released its iOS 13 update, which allows users to ask Siri to play albums and playlists using their voice. This brings Spotify up to par with other music apps; SiriKit integration for audio apps was exclusive to Apple Music until iOS 13.
To use Spotify…
PS4 Remote Play will fully support Android this week
October 7, 2019
Sony has announced version 7.00 of the PlayStation 4’s system software, which centers around updates to Remote Play and party functionality. The update will be available this week.
Remote Play will now let you stream games from your console to any Android device running…
AI in messaging: Hard to solve, but full of promise
October 6, 2019
There is a huge whitespace waiting to be filled by the tech companies that recognize the power and potential of messaging.
Roughly 63% of people prefer to share information on “dark social,” or closed, private messaging environments like Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp. However, the experience on these platforms remains painfully circuitous. In order to share a single piece of content within…
