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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 investing in veterans in the gaming industry, even as fully vested executives depart from Twitch after the Amazon acquisition…
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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…
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 originally crowned the king of low-light photography. There were objections then that it was comparing different generations…
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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…
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Curated list of Mac screensavers includes iPhone and Apple Watch lookalikes

October 21, 2019
Podcaster Adam Garrett-Harris has put together a fun curated list of Mac screensavers, including a bunch of Apple-inspired ones. There is, for example, one which makes your Mac screen look like the Lock screen of an iPhone or iPad (above), and another which looks like an Apple Watch (below)… The collection is divided into nine categories: Clocks Apple Inspired Retro Sci-Fi Video…
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MobileNews

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…
MobileNews

Xiaomi plans to launch over 10 phones with 5G in 2020

October 21, 2019
Xiaomi has a bold plan of launching nearly a dozen new smartphones with 5G next year. The devices won’t be all flagships, but midrangers as well, as the company fears 4G smartphones won’t be competitive come 2020. Lei Jun, the Xiaomi CEO, revealed the 2020 plans at the…
AI & RoboticsNews

How AI powers the Pixel 4

October 21, 2019
Google’s Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL go on sale this week after making their debut at a hardware event in New York last week, and like previous versions of Google’s flagship smartphone, artificial intelligence powers many exclusive new features and improvements. On-device machine learning is a main theme for the latest Made by Google hardware. The Pixel 4 uses Neural Core, a TPU chip upgrade from…
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