Driving Game Growth & Into the Metaverse Register today to connect with the games industry, join private networking sessions, and hear the latest on driving game growth and the metaverse. January 26-28, 2021 Register for free In a new video posted to Twitter today, CD Projekt Red co-founder Marcin Iwiński …
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Get the most out of your game’s subscription plans Best practices for designing and managing your subscription strategy Access guide here The holiday tech-product refresh season continues with Razer updating its take on the wireless earbuds. The Razer Hammerhead True Wireless Pro Earbuds are available now for $ 200. For …
Read More »AWS releases models and datasets to help predict COVID-19’s spread
How startups are scaling communication The pandemic is making startups take a close look at ramping up their communication solutions. Learn how Amazon Web Services (AWS) today open-sourced a new simulator and machine learning toolkit for anticipating and mitigating the spread of COVID-19. AWS says that the suite, which comprises …
Read More »AstraZeneca Releases Blueprints for Virus Vaccine Trial Amid Safety Scrutiny
[This briefing has ended. Follow live coronavirus updates here.] Here’s what you need to know: After coming under fire for vaccine safety, AstraZeneca releases trial blueprints. A month after Sturgis, another motorcycle rally this weekend in Missouri is worrying health experts. States in the Midwest and the Southwest are reporting …
Read More »XRSI releases VR/AR user privacy framework, citing ‘urgent’ need
GamesBeat Summit Watch every session from the annual event On Demand Watch Now Virtual and augmented reality technologies have continued to improve at a brisk pace, with Facebook’s Oculus Quest VR headset and Nreal’s Light AR glasses setting new standards for mobility and comfort. But as the hardware and software …
Read More »Google releases Model Card Toolkit to promote AI model transparency
VB Transform Watch every session from the AI event of the year On-Demand Watch Now Google today released the Model Card Toolkit, a toolset designed to facilitate AI model transparency reporting for developers, regulators, and downstream users. It’s based on Google’s Model Cards framework for reporting on model provenance, usage, …
Read More »Facebook releases AI development tool based on NetHack
Facebook researchers believe the Atari game NetHack is well-tailored to training, testing, and evaluating AI models. To this end, they today released the NetHack Learning Environment, a research tool for benchmarking the robustness and generalization of reinforcement learning agents. For decades, games have served as benchmarks for AI. But things …
Read More »Google releases SimCLR, an AI framework that can classify images with limited labeled data
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. …
Read More »Google releases TyDi QA, a data set that aims to capture the uniqueness of languages
Google hopes to spur the development of AI capable of understanding the ways in which languages express different meanings. To this end, company researchers today detailed a data set — TyDi QA, a question-answering data set covering 11 languages — inspired by typological diversity, or the notion that different languages …
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