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Happy Halloween! LG put a dual-screen costume on its latest flagship phone, and the Nintendo Switch is battling the ghost of the SNES — we’ll explain. Also, we have everything you need to know about the TeamTre…
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The future may have big things in store for robots that will help humanity. Goals for robots include helping to rescue humans from a burning building, helping with chemical spills, and helping with any disaster that makes a location inaccessible to human responders. Before the dream of rescue robots can become a reality, the robots have to be able to … Continue reading
Oct 31
It’s been an absolutely bonkers month for social media companies like Facebook and Twitter, with Facebook admitting that it allows politicians to lie in ads on the platform and Twitter opening the floodgates to show users more ads than ever. Just yesterday, Twitter even announced that it was banning all political ads,…
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The impeachment investigation is focused on Trump’s efforts to push Ukraine to investigate his Democratic rival.
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Washington fans watching a ballpark broadcast of World Series Game 7 erupted in contempt at a Trump campaign ad.
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A lot of games come with bots to allow players to play against a computer. This lets players test out new builds or strategies or if they don’t have an internet connection to play with real players online. Now, for the most part, the AI used in bots isn’t very good. They are usually predictable and once you’ve figured out their pattern, it’s easy to beat.
However, it seems that Google’s DeepMind AI has reached the point where it seems to be smart enough to take on StarCraft 2 players who are playing at the Grandmaster level. According to DeepMind, the AI has gotten to the point where it is better than 99.8% of human players, and if you thought that being AI it would be given an unfair advantage, it does not.
In fact, DeepMind’s AI has been given the same limitations as human players, such as having the same virtual camera views, limited map information like fog of war, and they are also limited to the number of actions taken per minute. This means that even with it being “handicapped”, it is better than the majority of players out there.
This is not the first time we’ve seen AI take on professional gamers. Earlier this year, Elon Musk’s OpenAI took on a team of top Dota 2 players and won.
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Oct 31
With the Nintendo Wii U, the console was a huge flop and many were worried for the future of Nintendo. However, with the Switch, things turned around somewhat dramatically for the company. In fact, according to the latest figures, it seems that Nintendo has managed to sell 41.67 million units of the Switch worldwide to date.
This is quite impressive when you consider how poorly the Wii U did back in the day. According to Nintendo’s latest earnings, the Switch sold an additional 4.8 million units during the past three months ending in September 30. The company had also revealed that the Switch Lite, which was released on the 20th of September, accounted for 1.95 million units, which seems to indicate that the console is doing pretty well.
The Switch Lite, for those unfamiliar, is a smaller and cheaper version of the Switch. The main difference is that the controllers are not removable and it cannot be docked, where it has been designed to be played on the go. It almost feels like Nintendo is slowly trying to transition DS gamers away to the Switch Lite, although the company is continuing to support the DS consoles for now.
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