Nov 22
“The Late Late Show” host needs to brush up on his tricks.
Nov 22
Apple’s freshly launched iPhone XR and iPhone XS lines have hardware support for dual SIM configurations, but the rollout of the feature has been a bit delayed (or in the case of AT&T, rolled back) due to issues with carriers that have not been totally sorted out yet. Verizon, however, is reportedly planning on…
Nov 22
Gavin McInnes: Proud Boys? Haha What Do You Mean I'm the Leader of the Proud Boys?
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Gavin McInnes, the founder of the far-right Proud Boys group, is bailing on the organization after leaked Washington state law enforcement documents indicated the FBI considers it an “extremist group with ties to white nationalism.” McInnes’ hasty departure follows a wave of arrests of the group’s members in…
Nov 22
Unless you really need the iPad Pro (and you almost definitely do not), the standard, vanilla 2018 iPad is a terrific tablet for both consuming and creating media. It even works with the Apple Pencil, the first non-Pro iPad to do so.
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Nov 22
Android’s Adaptive Brightness Uses Machine Learning
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Right now our smartphones use ambient light sensors placed on the front of the phone to detect light which can then be used to adjust our display’s brightness accordingly. For the most part this works just fine, but in Android Pie, Google has detailed how they are using machine learning to help make this experience better.
Right now when users want to adjust the brightness of their phones to suit their tastes and preferences, they have to move the slider manually. However with adaptive brightness and machine learning, Android will be able to “learn” your personal preferences. According to Google, “This means that Android will learn what screen brightness is comfortable for a user in a given lighting environment. The user teaches it by manually adjusting the slider, and, as the software trains over time, the user should need to make fewer manual adjustments.”
Now it might seem a bit over the top to use machine learning to make adjustments to one’s display, but according to Google, “We believe that screen brightness is one of those things that should just work, and these changes in Android Pie are a step towards realizing that.” We have to say it is a pretty clever idea and if it means that in the end there is less fiddling that we’ll need to do with our phones, and focus more on what’s at hand, then why not?
As it stands the Adaptive Brightness feature is part of the Android Pie update and is available on Pixel devices, but Google is working with their OEM partners to bring the feature to non-Pixel devices as well.
Android’s Adaptive Brightness Uses Machine Learning , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
Nov 22
Last year Valve announced a new game called Artifact which is a card game based on DotA 2. However it seems that during a recent beta of the game, gamers discovered how the company plans on monetizing the game which seems to involve players spending real-life money for pretty much everything.
Basically gamers need to pay for the game, after which they’ll need to pay to buy cards to build decks to play the game. Cards can also be won through game modes that require event tickets to participate, and yes as you might have guessed, those tickets need to be bought using real-life money as well.
Safe to say many players weren’t too happy about all the money they would have to spend, to which Valve has since responded. One of the changes the company is making involves unwanted cards. “We’re adding a system that allows extra, unwanted cards to be recycled into event tickets. This feature will ship before the end of the beta period.”
We get that spending money to get new cards is part of such games (see Hearthstone and Magic: the Gathering), but hopefully by allowing users to recycle unwanted cards into event tickets will help reduce the overall costs to gamers. Artifact is currently slated for a release on the 28th of November.
Valve Responds To Criticism Over Monetization In ‘Artifact’ , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
Nov 22
As the value of bitcoin fell below $5k this week, a cryptocurrency mining firm Giga Watt declared bankruptcy. The US-based bitcoin mining firm currently owes creditors millions of dollars – US dollars – and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in an Eastern District of Washington court on Monday, the 19th of November, 2018. They currently owe over $7-million to creditors. … Continue reading
Nov 22
Gavin McInnes: Proud Boys? Haha What Do You Mean I'm the Leader of the Proud Boys?
Posted in: Today's Chili
Gavin McInnes, the founder of the far-right Proud Boys group, is bailing on the organization after leaked Washington state law enforcement documents indicated the FBI considers it an “extremist group with ties to white nationalism.” McInnes’ hasty departure follows a wave of arrests of the group’s members in…
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