The PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X debuted in November, but gamers turned to recognizable franchises when it came to software. That led to record sales across all categories — but especially for hardware and software, according to industry-tracking firm The NPD Group. Here are the results for the month: November 2020 Dollar Sales, Millions […]
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Amazon begins shifting Alexa’s cloud AI to its own silicon
Amazon engineers discuss the migration of 80 percent of Alexa’s workload to Inferentia ASICs in this three-minute clip. On Thursday, an Amazon AWS blogpost announced that the company has moved most of the cloud processing for its Alexa personal assistant off of Nvidia GPUs and onto its own Inferentia Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC). Amazon dev Sebastien […]
PlayStation begins a new initiative touting indie games
PlayStation introduced a new initiative focused on independent titles called PlayStation Indies along with a slew of new games. “With PlayStation Indies, we hope to spotlight and support the best of the best indie games being published on PlayStation and the entire indie community as a whole. Our goal is to make PlayStation the best […]
Digital Trends Live: WWDC begins, Apple re-closes some stores, and more
On this episode of Digital Trends Live, host Greg Nibler breaks down the top trending stories in tech, including the kick-off of WWDC, Fortnite removes police cars, Apple re-closes some stores, Spotify’s interactive podcast ads, and more. Renaldo Webb Renaldo Webb, founder of Pet Plate, discusses how they worked with a leading veterinary nutritionist to […]
AT&T begins DSS rollout, enabling some 5G phones to share 4G spectrum
Due to limited U.S. availability of empty mid band radio spectrum for 5G rollouts, dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS) has become a critical alternative, enabling carriers to split existing 4G spectrum into 4G and 5G segments. Today, AT&T announced that it is starting to use DSS in its cellular network, and though the initial footprint is […]
Digital Trends Live: Pixel 4 leak, Disney+ begins rollout, fish robots, and more
On this episode of Digital Trends Live, hosts Greg Nibler and Adrien Warner dive into the biggest trending tech topics of the day, including a leak of the Pixel 4, Disney+ begins its rollout, a Sega Genesis Mini review, flying fish robots, and more. Later we speak with Miguel Nunes, senior director of product management […]
The death of “Works with Nest” begins now with Google account migrations
Enlarge / Coming soon to a Nest near you: Your Google account. Google Nest The smart home company Nest is currently in the middle of a rocky transition from standalone Alphabet company to a full-on merger with Google’s hardware team, where it will exist as a Google sub-brand. The details were announced during Google I/O […]
Japan’s latest bullet train begins trial runs that will see it reach 248 mph
Previous Next Japan has started testing the latest version of its high-speed bullet train. Each new generation of Shinkansen, as it’s known locally, brings with it a design even more dazzling than the one that went before, and the new Alfa-X, which stands for “Advanced Labs for Frontline Activity in rail eXperimentation,” is certainly no […]
Microsoft begins work on its 2020 Windows releases in new preview
Enlarge / Windows is now perpetually under construction. David Holt Microsoft has published a new preview release of Windows 10, build 18836, to participants of the “Skip Ahead” group. But it’s not quite the preview that they were expecting to get. Microsoft’s preview program has a number of different channels to let people use and […]
The Great Google Hangouts Shutdown begins October 2019
Enlarge Google previously announced that its most popular messaging app, Google Hangouts, would be shutting down. In a post today on the GSuite Updates blog, Google detailed what the Hangouts shutdown will look like, and the company shared some of its plan to transition Hangouts users to “Hangouts Chat,” a separate enterprise Slack clone. First, […]
Battlefield V’s open beta begins with destruction in Rotterdam
Electronic Arts and DICE have just begun letting fans into the Battlefield V open beta test on PC and consoles. This is the publisher’s latest attempt to get feedback from players while also generating buzz for the upcoming World War II military shooter, which EA delayed to November 20 last week. Battlefield is one of […]
TESS, NASA’s planet-hunting space satellite, begins science operations
Illustration of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) in front of a lava planet orbiting its host star. TESS will identify thousands of potential new planets for further study and observation. NASA/GSFC NASA’s exoplanet-hunting satellite TESS is fully operational and has begun scanning the skies for distant planets, NASA reported on Friday. And maybe, just […]