Hour One wants synthetic AI characters to be your digital avatars
If you ever wondered how we’ll populate the metaverse, look no further than Hour One, an Israeli startup that is making replicas of people...
GeForce Now cloud gaming launches on Chromebooks
Nvidia’s GeForce Now cloud gaming service is launching on Google Chromebooks. GeForce Now is available in beta form on Chrome OS, the cloud-based operating...
An Apple One services bundle is pointless if consumers only save $2-$5
Imagine millions of Apple customers holding out on the services introduced last year — Apple Arcade, News+, and TV+ — not out of lack...
UC Berkeley’s Niloufar Salehi on restorative justice in social media
Victims of stalking, harassment, hate, election interference, and other abuses have for years argued that we need to rethink the way social media functions....
Apple’s EU antitrust case targets App Store limits on Microsoft and Facebook gaming apps
(Reuters) – Facebook and Microsoft’s grievances over how their gaming apps appear on Apple’s App Store may feed into an EU investigation into the...
Trump bans U.S. transactions with TikTok and WeChat starting September 20
(Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday unveiled sweeping bans on U.S. transactions with China’s ByteDance, owner of video-sharing app TikTok, and Tencent,...
Google launches Android 11 Beta 3, lets COVID-19 apps work with location off
Google today launched Android 11 Beta 3, the seventh and final preview of its next mobile OS version. Beta 3 puts Android 11 into...
Carnegie Mellon researchers use Twitch to collect sounds for AI research
Carnegie Mellon researchers have designed a livestreaming video game that collects audio from players to populate a database for AI research. The team’s game...
Facebook develops AI algorithm that learns to play poker on the fly
Facebook researchers have developed a general AI framework called Recursive Belief-based Learning (ReBeL) that they say achieves better-than-human performance in heads-up, no-limit Texas hold’em...
Discord launches noise suppression for its mobile app
Voice, video, and text communication service Discord is launching noise suppression for mobile audio calls. That means no one will notice if you’re taking...