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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare — The single-player campaign begins with a couple of blasts

October 24, 2019
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare starts out with a notice that says it has mature content. You have to click on it where it says, “I understand.” That is your last chance to turn around before you get sucked into the enthralling but brutal story of modern war. Then it begins by grabbing your attention. A suicide bomber steps out of a truck into Piccadilly Circus in London. He holds a detonator in…
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GameStop may begin selling Call of Duty: Modern Warfare early

October 24, 2019
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare launches tonight for PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 when the clock strikes midnight. But you probably don’t have to wait until October 25 to start playing the military shooter. If you purchase it digitally, Activision plans to unlock the game…
AI & RoboticsNews

Incode raises $10 million to verify identities with AI

October 24, 2019
Incode, a San Francisco startup developing what it describes as an omnichannel biometric identity platform, today announced that it’s raised $10 million in seed funding from undisclosed investors. Founder and CEO Ricardo Amper said that the newfound capital will enable…
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Mike Ybarra joins Blizzard after years as Xbox services boss

October 24, 2019
Blizzard Entertainment is getting a new executive from Microsoft. Mike Ybarra is taking on the role of executive vice president and general manager at the Overwatch and World of Warcraft publisher. This comes two weeks after Ybarra left his long-time position on Microsoft’s Xbox team. Ybarra made the announcement in a statement on Twitter. In that tweet, the Blizzard boss said that he is…
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ComputersNews

Microsoft used magnets to make its Surface Laptop 3 more repairable

October 24, 2019
When Microsoft introduced the Surface Laptop 3 earlier this month, Chief Product Officer Panos Panay casually lifted its top assembly (the part that contains the keyboard) on stage to show that it was designed better than its predecessors. Now, iFixit’s teardown has proven that it truly is quite easy to open the device, which could mean not just a more repairable laptop, but an overall…
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AI & RoboticsNews

AI can help doctors spot brain hemorrhages faster

October 24, 2019
The process relied on a convolutional neural network that pored over 4,396 CT scans. That’s a comparatively small number of samples, but the abnormalities were detailed “at the pixel level,” according to UCSF. In other words, they were far less likely to…
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Fortnite’s black hole event broke Twitch and Twitter viewing records

October 24, 2019
It’s been just over a week since Fortnite came back online following a two-day, black hole-induced hiatus. But the event, which ushered in the game’s eleventh season and its all-new redesigned map, was one of the biggest singular online gaming events to date — with more than 7 million concurrent viewers across Twitch, Twitter, and YouTube. Epic Games tells The Verge that the black hole…
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