Last year I stated that the iPhone XR was the phone that most iPhone users should buy, so it should come as no surprise that the follow-up to the XR comes with a similar recommendation in our iPhone 11 review.
The iPhone 11 is, for all intents and purposes, a more powerful and more feature-filled iPhone XR. Its flagship feature, a second camera with an ultra-wide focal length, is a noteworthy…
Info on Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite launch colors leaks
October 16, 2019
Samsung is preparing Lite additions to both the Galaxy S10 and Galaxy Note10 lineups. They will bear the model names SM-G770F and SM-N770F, respectively, and while the Note10 Lite is a mystery, a lot more is known about the S-phone.
The Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite may be…
'PUBG' season 5 will have throwable items and weapons
October 16, 2019
Season 5 of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is about to get underway, and PUBG Corp has offered some details on what’s in store. One of the bigger additions is spike traps, which you can place in the path of an enemy car to pop the tires.
You’ll be able to…
The Reminders app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac got a big upgrade with iOS 13, iPadOS 13, and macOS Catalina. One of the handy new features is the option to create nested to-dos (and lists, too). Follow along for how to make subtasks and sublists with Reminders on iPhone, iPad, and Mac with the latest software.
Apple’s Reminders app has become more and more capable over the years, and this fall…
Microsoft’s UniLM AI achieves state-of-the-art performance on summarization and language generation
October 16, 2019
Language model pretraining, a technique that “teaches” machine learning systems contextualized text representations by having them predict words based on their contexts, has advanced the state of the art across a range of natural language processing objectives. However…
Beamo is an affordable, compact CO2 laser cutter and engraver
October 16, 2019
Yes, a laser cutter/engraver. Definitely not our the usual stuff we cover but this one is exciting enough so we felt we should share with any tinkerers or artistic types among you. Flux – the company that originally gathered quite a bit of attention for the sub $1000…
Apple releasing iOS 13.2 developer beta 3 today with new emoji, Siri privacy settings, more
October 16, 2019
Apple today is releasing the second developer beta of iOS 13.2 and iPadOS 13.2. Today’s release comes just under a week after the release of the second iOS 13.2 beta with Deep Fusion camera technology, Siri changes, and more.
Deep Fusion is Apple’s new camera processing technology that works in the background to improve image quality for iPhone 11 and iPhone…
Gaming phones are an ancient idea. Nokia released the N-Gage, which was like a phone built into a game controller, in 2003. And it didn’t do very well. But the concept has made a resurgence recently thanks to devices from Razer, Asus, and Xiaomi. Now, Xiaomi has launched…
Facebook AI Research today introduced ReAgent, a reinforcement learning toolkit for building decision-making AI that can receive feedback. ReAgent can assign scores to user actions and treat user input such as clicking on recommended content as training data.
ReAgent is a…
Twitch CEO Emmett Shear on how moderation creates communities
October 16, 2019
At this year’s TwitchCon in San Diego — a celebratory, over-the-top affair that brought in streamers and fans from all over the world — I sat down with Twitch CEO Emmett Shear who co-founded the first iteration of the site and who’s been steering the ship ever since 2011.
The day before, he’d given the event’s keynote, during which he announced some major changes to moderation: next…
