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On Monday the EU data protection watchdog called for the development of a single COVID-19 contact-tracing app that would be coordinated at European level. As it stands the spread of coronavirus over the past weeks has seen governments forced to develop and roll-out new technologies at a speed that previously …

CD Projekt Red is pushing ahead with its launch plans for Cyberpunk 2077. The open-world sci-fi role-playing adventure is due out September 17, and the studio expects to stick to that date. During a conference call today with financial analysts, the company revealed it has plans in place to deal …

A team of Google researchers recently detailed a framework called SimCLR, which improves previous approaches to self-supervised learning, a family of techniques for converting an unsupervised learning problem (i.e., a problem in which AI models train on unlabeled data) into a supervised one by creating labels from unlabeled data sets. …

MIT and makers of the app Private Kit: Safe Paths say they’ve overcome an iOS and Android interoperability issue that will make the coronavirus contact tracking app able to track close proximity with other people using Bluetooth. MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory accomplished the feat last week. Currently, Private Kit logs location …

When we came out of the financial crisis of 2008, cloud computing kicked into high gear and started to become a pervasive, transformational technology. The current COVID-19 crisis could provide a similar inflection point for AI applications. While the implications of AI continue to be debated on the world stage, …

While Samsung’s Galaxy S-series 5G phones have targeted premium smartphone customers, the South Korean company is using A-series devices to push high-speed 5G technologies into the mainstream. So while today’s announcement of the midrange Galaxy A51 5G and Galaxy A71 5G isn’t surprising, their price tags will likely help the …

(Reuters) — Video conferencing company Zoom has been responsive to concerns over its software, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a memo recently distributed to top government cybersecurity officials and seen by Reuters. The memo — drafted by DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Federal …

Rare announced during today’s episode of Inside Xbox that a free update for Sea of Thieves will be available on Xbox One and PC on April 22. Sea of Thieves came out in 2019 for Xbox One and PC. It’s a multiplayer online game that has players teaming up in …

We’re taking GamesBeat Summit 2020 into a digital online-only format. And here’s the next slate of speakers: Stanley Pierre-Louis, president and CEO of the Entertainment Software Association; Keisha Howard, founder of Sugar Gamers; Blake Harris, author of Console Wars and The History of the Future; and Josh Tsui, director of …