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Antitrust investigation of Google reportedly expands to Android

November 15, 2019
Tonight CNBC reports that an ongoing antitrust investigation of Google undertaken by 50 attorneys general is expanding. While it started by looking into Google’s advertising business, it has apparently, as expected, expanded its scope to include search and the Android platform. Over the years Google has reached into more services — next up: checking — and platforms with…
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GamingNews

Call of Duty and Outer Worlds deliver solid month

November 15, 2019
Consumer spending on video games was not as bleak as it looks on the page. Gaming fans in the United States spent $1.03 billion on hardware, new full game software, and accessories, according to industry-tracking firm The NPD Group. While this is down 34% from last October…
GamingNews

Microsoft is adding 10 'Final Fantasy' games to Xbox Game Pass

November 14, 2019
Earlier today, Microsoft announced that it’s adding more than 50 new games to Xbox Game Pass — as well as giving three sweet freebies if you sign up for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. By any measure, that’s a lot of games, but it’s an especially exciting crop if you’re a fan of Japanese role-playing series Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts. With the blessing of Square…
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MobileNews

Google antitrust probe into search and Android businesses

November 14, 2019
The 50 attorneys general investigating Google for potential antitrust violations are expected to expand their probe and examine the company’s Android and search businesses, not just its advertising practices, CNBC reported on Thursday. Last September, nearly every…
AI & RoboticsNews

IBM’s Lambada AI generates training data for text classifiers

November 14, 2019
What’s a data scientist to do if they lack sufficient data to train a machine learning model? One potential avenue is synthetic data generation, which researchers at IBM Research advocate in a newly published preprint paper. They used a pretrained machine learning model to artificially synthesize new labeled data for text classification tasks. They claim that their method, which they refer to…
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GamingNews

Wasteland 3 will launch May 19 on PC and Xbox One

November 14, 2019
InXile Entertainmet’s final announced project from before last year’s acquisition by Microsoft finally has a release date — Wasteland 3 is coming out May 19 for PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Game Pass. The studio made the announcement at Microsoft’s X019 event in London…
GamingNews

Project xCloud streaming tech is coming to Xbox Game Pass in 2020

November 14, 2019
Microsoft detailed its plans for the future of Project xCloud today as part of its X019 presentation in London. The Xbox game-streaming tech is already in preview, and that test is getting more than 50 new games for people to try. But Microsoft also revealed that it’s going to add streaming as an option for everyone in the Xbox ecosystem. Project xCloud boss Kareem Choundry explained the…
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