GamingNews

Steam's new beta takes local multiplayer games online

October 21, 2019
Valve didn’t wait long to give you a chance to play local multiplayer games online. The latest Steam beta client now includes Remote Play Together support that lets friends join in multiplayer experiences that would normally require sitting on the same couch. Only the host needs a copy of the game — everyone else just needs a controller or (with permission) access to the keyboard or…
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Twitch snags chief marketing officer Doug Scott from Zynga

October 21, 2019
Twitch, the livestreaming service and entertainment community owned by Amazon, is announcing today that former Zynga chief marketing officer Doug Scott is joining Twitch as the new CMO. He will be based in Twitch’s San Francisco office. The move shows that Twitch is still…
AI & RoboticsNews

Microsoft’s AI rewrites sentences based on context

October 21, 2019
Ever heard of context modeling? It defines how contextual data is structured and maintained, and it plays a pivotal role in open domain conversation. That’s why researchers at Microsoft recently investigated a novel approach that involves rewriting the last utterance in a dialogue turn (i.e., a series of utterances) by considering context history. In a preprint paper detailing their work…
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MobileNews

The Honor V30 Pro with 5G connectivity is coming in November

October 21, 2019
Honor President Zhao Ming has stated that a 5G-connected Honor V30 will be launched next month. Ming didn’t commit to a specific date in November, but said that the phone will support Stand Alone and Non-Stand Alone modes and hinted that this phone will target a young…
MobileNews

MacWorld test says iPhone 11 beats Pixel 4

October 21, 2019
When Apple announced the low-light photography capabilities of the iPhone 11, everyone was eagerly awaiting a new Night mode versus Night Sight test, aka Apple against Google. PC World conducted one back in September, but that was against the Pixel 3 – the smartphone…
MobileNews

Samsung Galaxy Fold gets Note10 camera features with new update

October 21, 2019
The Samsung Galaxy Fold has been out for some time and Samsung is issuing the first official software update which brings all of the camera updates from the Note 10 line. Users in France and the UAE have already begun receiving firmware version F900FXXU1ASJ4 which comes in at just over 670 MB and brings the October security patch. Galaxy Fold update changelog The major additions in the camera…
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WSJ backs report of Apple making the iPhone XR in India

October 21, 2019
A report last week said that a Foxconn facility had begun making the iPhone XR in India, and a new report today backs this. The  Newley Purnell supported the report with a tweeted photo of an iPhone XR box printed with “Designed by Apple in California, Assembled in India”… The specific mention of the XR is part of a more general  report on India’s push to attract manufacturers to move…
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