If you want to become a streamer on Twitch or a content creator on YouTube, then a capture card is essential. These handy devices can help you record and stream PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and even PC gameplay, and if you want to create high-quality videos, you’ll need a great capture card to do […]
Best Budget Monitors For Under $200 (April 2020): Cheap Monitors For Working From Home
More people are working from home every day, but it can be difficult transitioning into working within your home, especially if your office has a lot of the tools you need for your daily duties. One of them might even be a monitor, and while you may not need to plug your laptop into one […]
Xbox Series X Pre-Order Guide: Release Window, Notification Sign-Ups, And More
Since it revealed the Xbox Series X at last year’s Game Awards, Microsoft has trickled out information about its next-gen console. We’ve seen what the Xbox Series X controller looks like, learned details about the console’s build and specs, and how the Xbox Series X will handle backward-compatibility. The Xbox Series X is still expected […]
Google claims its AI can design computer chips in under 6 hours
In a preprint paper coauthored by Google AI lead Jeff Dean, scientists at Google Research and the Google chip implementation and infrastructure team describe a learning-based approach to chip design that can learn from past experience and improve over time, becoming better at generating architectures for unseen components. They claim it completes designs in under […]
Best Xbox One Controllers (April 2020): Best Xbox Series X Compatible Gamepads
Microsoft has been improving the Xbox One gaming experience since the console’s launch in 2013. Controllers have been a huge part of that; as we head into the launch of the Xbox Series X, there are tons of Xbox wireless controller options as well as wired ones, including the Xbox Adaptive Controller, multiple iterations of […]
DeepMind’s AI studies game players to exploit weaknesses in their strategies
In a paper published on the preprint server Arxiv.org, scientists at Alphabet’s DeepMind propose a new framework that learns an approximate best response to players within games of many kinds. They claim that it achieves consistently high performance against “worst-case opponents” — that is, players who aren’t good yet at least play by the rules and actually complete […]
Facebook’s Climate Conversation Map reveals reactions to environmental news
In partnership with organizations including the World Resources Institute and the Yale Program on Climate Change, Facebook today released the Climate Conversation Map, a set of maps that tap aggregated, anonymized data to highlight where, when, and how often users share or react to climate change-related links. It’s available by request to research partners and […]
Google’s AI teaches robots to grasp occluded objects and adapt to new situations
In a pair of papers published on the preprint server Arxiv.org this week, Google and University of California, Berkely researchers describe new AI and machine learning techniques that enable robots to adapt to never-before-seen tasks and grasp occluded objects. The first study details X-Ray, an algorithm that when deployed on a robot can search through […]
You Can Still Grab A Nintendo Switch Lite Bundle At GameStop
The Nintendo Switch is currently seeing a major worldwide shortage, the likes of which we haven’t seen since its release in 2017. People are clamoring to get their hands on the console, most likely due to being stuck inside because of the coronavirus pandemic as well as the timely release of Animal Crossing: New Horizons. […]
Ready or not, the automation age is suddenly upon us
After COVID-19, there’s no going back to the way things were. There won’t be sporting events or concerts with thousands of people sitting in close proximity for a long time. The open office floor plan will likely become a relic of a bygone era. It is, as The New York Times stated recently, the end […]