The console gaming world could be about to get a lot more open. For a long time, Sony was resistant to let people play PS4 games with their friends on other platforms. It cracked open the door with a cross-play beta for Fortnite a little over a year ago, and now it’s allowing all developers to make use of cross-platform capabilities.
Over the last 12 months, games such as Rocket League…
Apple’s third-generation AirPods have been rumored for almost as long as the current second-generation version, though the specific features and design changes have remained ambiguous — noise cancellation and water resistance were said to be likely candidates. Today’s…
Call of Duty: Mobile has reached 20 million installs and has earned $2 million so far, according to market analyst Sensor Tower.
The mobile version of Activision Blizzard’s hit shooter franchise launched on October 1 for Android and iOS. Some of those numbers from Sensor…
Natural language processing (NLP) — the AI subfield dealing with machine reading comprehension — isn’t by any stretch solved, and that’s because syntactic nuances can enormously impact the meaning of a sentence or phrase. Consider the paraphrase pairs “Flights from New York to Florida” and “Flights to Florida from New York,” which convey the same thing. Even state-of-the-art…
Rumors about new Apple AirPods with noise canceling aren’t exactly new, dating back a couple of years. But now a glyph found in iOS 13.2 reveals what the new AirPods with noise canceling will look like.
They remind me of Apple’s old in-ear headphones, but wireless…
Surface Laptop 3 hands-on: Bigger, yet more refined
October 2, 2019
While we loved the original Surface Laptop, last year’s sequel wasn’t a huge improvement design-wise. The Surface Laptop 3 is another story entirely: it forgoes the Alcantara fabric around the keyboard for polished aluminum, and there’s a larger 15-inch…
Popular media player, Plex, has released an update for iOS and tvOS that allows users to schedule recordings without missing out on Live TV. The update also brings a variety of bug fixes.
Plex highlighted the new ability to schedule recordings while watching Live TV in a tweet today. The recent update also brings a dozen fixes for issues like auto-pause when disconnecting headphones, UI columns…
Following the rapid public releases of iOS 13.0 and 13.1 in late September, Apple today released a developer beta of iOS 13.2, most notably adding support for a new computational photography feature. The company also released new developer betas of iPadOS 13.2, tvOS 13.2…
Apple releasing first developer beta of iOS 13.2 today with Deep Fusion camera tech for iPhone 11
October 2, 2019
Apple today has released the first developer beta of iOS 13.2. The new beta is the first to include Apple’s new Deep Fusion camera technology on the iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro, as detailed yesterday.
Deep Fusion is Apple’s new camera…
The Surface Laptop 3 vs. the competition: 13-inch workhorses
October 2, 2019
It’s October once more, which means we get to look at some new machines from Microsoft. We’re long accustomed to the hybrid Surface Pro line but we’re also seeing the third iteration of the company’s powerful and stylish Surface Laptop. The 15-inch version packs an AMD Ryzen CPU, but the 13-inch is no slouch thanks to its 10th-gen Ice Lake chip, the better to compete with…
