GamesBeat Summit 2021 #GBSummit returns with two days of content and networking designed for industry executives. April 28-29, 2021 Register Now Nexus.gg announced today it has partnered with Path of Exile maker Grinding Gear Games to provide content creators with custom stores. The idea is that they will be able to help sell gear from […]
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Apple now lets you easily move iCloud Photos content to Google Photos
Apple has quietly launched a tool that lets you automatically transfer all of the photos and videos stored on your iCloud account to Google Photos. This will be especially useful if you decide to ditch your Apple-made smartphone for an Android alternative and need to move your media to your new device. Trending in Mobile: […]
New Perseverance panorama lets you zoom in to see amazing detail
NASA’s Perseverance rover is currently undergoing checks to ensure it’s ready to start exploring its new surroundings on Mars. But that hasn’t stopped the mission’s team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California from firing up some of the rover’s many cameras to capture amazing imagery from inside Jezero Crater where it touched down […]
Epic Games’ MetaHuman Creator lets developers create realistic digital humans within minutes
Beyond the app store: Why mobile games need a multi-platform strategy Learn how to go beyond the tried-and-true pathways to improve discoverability, create community, and scale your mobile business. View On Demand Epic Games has unveiled its MetaHuman Creator, a new browser-based app that enables game developers and creators of real-time content to slash the […]
YouTube’s new “Clips” feature lets users share 60-second clips of videos
The new clip button. Ron Amadeo The clip button brings up this timeline interface on the right. Pick 60 seconds of footage, give it a name, and share! Ron Amadeo The URL works just like YouTube’s normal share window, and it’s embeddable. Ron Amadeo This is watching a clip. Clips aren’t new videos. Like linking […]
How to catch the legendary Pokemon in Pokemon: Let’s Go
The plot to Pokémon: Let’s Go is familiar: You work to beat the Elite Four and become a Pokémon Champion. But capturing legendary Pokémon gives you something a little more exciting. Just like Pokémon Yellow, four legendary Pokémon can be caught in their hideouts: Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres, and Mewtwo. But the encounters in Let’s Go are a little bit different. […]
Let’s Encrypt comes up with workaround for abandonware Android devices
Enlarge / Pictured: An alternate future for many Android phones in 2021. Jan Kaláb CC BY-SA 2.0 / Flickr Things were touch-and-go for a while, but it looks like Let’s Encrypt’s transition to a standalone certificate authority (CA) isn’t going to break a ton of old Android phones. This was a serious concern earlier due […]
Trinamix’s molecular sensing lets smartphones assess the best cosmetics for your skin
When it comes to customer expectations, the pandemic has changed everything Learn how to accelerate customer service, optimize costs, and improve self-service in a digital-first world. Register here Trinamix has created molecular sensing technology that lets you use your smartphone to test which cosmetics would be best for your skin. But that’s just one of […]
Google AR app lets you place prehistoric creatures, Apollo 11 in your room
A cat faces off with a 400:1 scale prehistoric crustacean. Google An Apollo module in the app. Google A blue whale. Google A shark. Google The crustacean again, in the app view. Google Neil Armstrong’s spacesuit. Google A trunkfish. Google An Aegirocassis. Google Today, Google announced that it has partnered with institutions like the State […]
Google’s AI tool lets users trigger mobile app actions with natural language instructions
VB Transform The AI event for business leaders Hosted Online July 14 – 17 Register Today Google is investigating ways AI might be used to ground natural language instructions to smartphone app actions. In a study accepted to the 2020 Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) conference, researchers at the company propose corpora to train models […]
Apple’s Core ML now lets app developers update AI models on the fly
Apple today introduced upgrades for the Core ML machine learning framework, including model encryption using Xcode and Core ML Model Deployment, a way to store and launch models and update AI independent of the app update cycle. AI within apps can power a range of features from classification of natural language or images to analysis […]
iOS 14 lets you perform actions by tapping the back of an iPhone
At the WWDC keynote, Apple couldn’t run through every feature it’s bringing for iPhones with the iOS 14 update. Buried underneath the pile of headlining announcements, one of the more intriguing additions it skipped is a new gesture that allows you to perform actions by simply tapping the back of your iPhone. iOS 14 offers […]
Amazon’s new AI technique lets users virtually try on outfits
In a series of papers scheduled to be presented at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Amazon researchers propose complementary AI algorithms that could form the foundation of an assistant that helps customers shop for clothes. One lets people fine-tune search queries by describing variations on a product image, while another […]
Uber now lets U.S. riders book trips for $50 an hour
Uber is introducing an option that allows riders in the U.S. to book trips by the hour, the latest in a string of offerings the company has launched to offset the impact of the pandemic. Uber has in recent weeks been trialing its new hourly service in a handful of cities around the world, including in […]
Google Sodar lets you visualize social distancing guidelines in AR
Social distancing is one of the proven defenses you can equip to stay safe in this pandemic. Google wants to lend a hand to help you stick to the recommended 2-meter (a little over 6 feet) distance. Its new experimental augmented reality tool, Sodar lets you visualize how far exactly you need to stand from […]