[ad_1] “I was hoping to see the project through to the end and that it wouldn’t come to this, but I have little choice other than to pursue other opportunities,” Wyatt said in a statement. Despite the departure of the project’s lead architect and his firm, Atari seems confident that it can launch the device. […]
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Sennheiser’s $200 gaming headset promises 100 hours of battery life
[ad_1] The headset works with PC, Mac and PS4. It promises reliable audio with near-zero delay, and of course, the audio quality that Sennheiser brings to all of its products. Like the company’s other gaming headsets, the GSP 370 has a noise-cancelling microphone, which minimizes background noise and can be muted by lifting the boom […]
MIT-IBM developed a faster way to train video recognition AI
[ad_1] The trick is in shifting how video recognition models view time. Current models encode the passage of time in a sequence of images, which creates bigger, computationally-intensive models. The MIT-IBM researchers designed a temporal shift module, which gives the model a sense of time passing without explicitly representing it. In tests, the method was […]
Open world space game ‘Outer Wilds’ lands on the PS4 October 15th
[ad_1] In a blog post announcing the release, Mobius Digital producer Kelsey Rice said all the secrets players uncover are important and will help shed light on “a web of interconnected mysteries.” None of them was written in as filler for an unimportant storyline, so the producer is urging interested players not to watch others […]
California’s new police body cam law blocks the use of facial recognition
[ad_1] In August, backers of California’s Body Camera Accountability Act pointed out a test of facial recognition software that identified 26 state lawmakers as criminals. They argued it showed the flaws of such technology, and now Governor Gavin Newsom has signed AB1215 into law, preventing law enforcement in the state from “installing, activating, or using […]
Windows 10 preview brings Android phone calls to your PC
[ad_1] You’ll have to be ready for potential glitches when this is pre-release software. Microsoft has warned that older versions of some anti-cheat game software can produce crashes on this Windows build, for example. Don’t try this if you absolutely depend on a reliable PC. If that’s no obstacle, though, you no longer need third-party […]
Instagram’s new Story camera makes it even more like Snapchat
[ad_1] Ever since its arrival in 2016, the Instagram Stories feature has had a very familiar look and feel compared to Snapchat. Today Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced that it’s rolling out an updated camera with easier to browse effects and filters that are easier to sort through — apparently they still have energy left […]
Andy Rubin shows off a phone with a ‘radically different formfactor’
[ad_1] We’ve seen phones of many shapes and sizes over the years, but it looks like Essential’s next device could go in yet another direction. Android co-founder, Essential CEO and recipient of a reported $90 million payout from Google after a misconduct investigation Andy Rubin posted pictures of a new device on Twitter that is […]
Apple’s first TV+ holiday special will star Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds
[ad_1] There’s no mention of when it might appear, although it wouldn’t arrive for holiday 2019 unless it’s effectively complete. Apple has been rapidly expanding the list of shows and movies on TV+, but there’s still a lot of ground left to cover genre-wise beyond dramas and kids’ programming. It needs additions like this to […]
Twitter admits your phone number may have been used for targeting ads
[ad_1] The company maintained that it never shared “personal data” with partners or other outsiders, and that it had resolved the problem as of September 17th. It’s also “taking steps” to ensure this doesn’t happen again. Twitter didn’t know how many people might have been affected, though, and was reporting this primarily to be “transparent” […]