DeepMind’s Agent57 beats humans at 57 classic Atari games
In a preprint paper published this week by DeepMind, Google parent company Alphabet’s U.K.-based research division, a team of scientists describe Agent57, which they...
Folding@home crowdsourced computing project passes 1 million downloads amid coronavirus research
Folding@home software for donating compute to medical research passed 1 million downloads, director Greg Bowman said in a tweet today. The Folding@home Consortium is made...
Immersal maps Helsinki in city-scale AR using crowdsourcing mobile app
Last year, U.K.-based Scape showed off a city-scale AR mapping solution that promised to let mobile devices tap into 3D maps and persistent, cloud-stored digital...
Nvidia develops lightweight VR gaze tracking system using LED sensors
All of the world’s top virtual reality headset makers agree that gaze tracking is going to be fundamental to the next generation of VR...
Google unveils Android Performance Tuner, Android GPU Inspector, and Cloud Firestore for game developers
Google today announced a bunch of new tools for game developers: Google Play Asset Delivery, Android Performance Tuner, Android GPU Inspector, and Cloud Firestore,...
iPadOS 13.4 lets iPads use trackpads — will apps and games catch up?
Apple spent most of the iPad’s first decade fighting to keep its tablets trackpad-free, a decision that left the otherwise superb platform with one...
Google trained Pixel 4’s Soli AI on millions of gestures from volunteers
Google today penned an explainer on the Soli radar-based technology that ships inside its Pixel 4 smartphones. While many of the hardware details were...
Nreal Light AR glasses add Clay AIR hand tracking, hint at 5G gaming
As Nreal moves closer to the consumer launch of its Light AR glasses, it’s continuing to bolster the wearable’s software capabilities with features that...
DeepMind technique encourages AI players to cooperate in zero-sum games
In a preprint paper, DeepMind described a new reinforcement learning technique that models human behavior in a potentially new and powerful way. It could...
Alexa can now send driving directions to your phone on your way out the door
Amazon’s Alexa just became a bit more useful thanks to the addition of new features aimed at commuters, weather watchers, and basketball fans. They...