Continuing their annual tradition, Apple and Google have released their list of the best apps and games of 2019. Apple, for the first time, held a real-world event to celebrate its winners, where it crowned AI-powered camera app Spectre Camera as its best iPhone app of the year and Sky: ...
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300M-user Imgur launches Melee, a gaming meme app
Ten years after its debut, 300-million-monthly-user Imgur is one of the last massively popular yet unpersonalized home pages on the internet. Because everyone sees the same upvoted posts when they open Imgur, it creates a shared experience full of inside jokes and running gags. But while you can switch to ...
Read More »This 16-game arcade for AIs tests their playing prowess
Figuring out just what an AI is good at is one of the hardest thing about understanding them. To help determine this, OpenAI has designed a set of games that can help researchers tell whether their machine learning agent is actually learning basic skills or, what is equally likely, has ...
Read More »Microsoft announces its xCloud streaming service and a truckload of new games are coming in 2020
November 25, 2019n n”,”protected”:false},”excerpt”:”rendered”:” Update: Elon Musk responded and this might happen. See below. Elon Musk took a big swipe at Ford during the unveiling of the Cybertruck. Mid-presentation, he played a video of a Cybertruck pulling an F-150 in what was pitched as a head-to-head contest. Many have questioned ...
Read More »Logitech accessory kit makes the Xbox Adaptive Controller even more accessible
Microsoft’s Xbox Adaptive Controller was a breath of fresh air in a gaming world that has largely failed to consider the needs of people with disabilities. Now Logitech has joined the effort to empower this diverse population with an expanded set of XAC-compatible buttons and triggers. Logitech’s $100 Adaptive Gaming ...
Read More »Valve confirms it’s making a ‘flagship’ Half-Life VR game
After what feels like years of rumors, it’s official: Valve is making a virtual reality Half-Life game. Official word of the new title comes via Valve’s (brand new, but verified) Twitter account, where the company is promising more details later this week: While it’s a bit curious to drop news ...
Read More »Valve’s flagship Half-Life VR game will land in March of 2020
The 2021 Toyota RAV4 Prime, a plug-in hybrid, on the floor of the 2019 LA Auto Shown That might seem slow compared to some of the pure electric sedans on the market. But it’s far zippier than previous models and marks a much needed improvement in the RAV4. The vehicle’s ...
Read More »Bunch, the Discord for mobile games, raises $3.85M from Supercell, Tencent, Riot Games
n Because this service is co-located with Google Cloud, there are no separate ingress and egress charges for data that moves between Bare Metal Solution and Google Cloud in the same region.n The servers for this solution, which are certified to run a wide range of applications (including Oracle Database) ...
Read More »‘Magic: The Gathering’ game maker exposed 452,000 players’ account data
The maker of Magic: The Gathering has confirmed that a security lapse exposed the data on hundreds of thousands of game players. The game’s developer, the Washington-based Wizards of the Coast, left a database backup file in a public Amazon Web Services storage bucket. The database file contained user account ...
Read More »‘Death Stranding’ brings back appointment gaming
Game launches these days are frequently the very worst time to play them. Plagued by bugs, server issues, balance problems and a lack of content, many “games as a service” titles are best consumed after a month or two. Not so with Hideo Kojima’s long-awaited Death Stranding, which, if you’re ...
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