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Amazon has canceled re:MARS 2020, an annual AI event that focuses on machine learning, automation, robotics and space, over concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic. The event was scheduled to be held June 16 to 19, 2020 in Las Vegas. Organizers of the event sai…

In a press conference at the White House, President Trump today announced that 1,700 Google engineers were working on a Coronavirus screening site. That site was supposedly the first step in a new screening process that would lead people from figuring out if …

With the globalized world going into partial or complete lock down over the Covid-19 pandemic, startups in the travel sector are facing a huge stress test and immediate disruption to business as usual as public health concern spirals and entire populations ar…

ZTEs struggles with the U.S. government generally havent been as high-profile as fellow Chinese mobile giant Huawei, but the company has still had its share of issues in recent years. The latest wrinkle, first reported by NBC and later confirmed by The Wall S…

Epic Games For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO website. Fortnite: Battle Royale is already a one of the most popular games around the globe. Now, with governments shutting down schools, entertainers can…

Pokémon Go encourages players to go out into the world and meet each other, but thats not the best idea when the world is trying to slow the spread of coronavirus covid-19. Developer Niantic has implemented temporary changes in the game to make catching Pokém…

Nioh 2 lets players create their own half-human, half-demon protagonist, master a variety of weaponry, and slay feral Yokai in 16th century Japan. Here are 10 things you need to know about Nioh 2. Sponsored by Sony Entertainment. #ign

17 with 16 posters participating In the world of data centers and high-speed computing, distance and time are killers. The distance between memory and CPU actually matters. The distance and communication speed between different nodes in a data center can be …

Part of a James Bond partnership announced by HMD Image: @rquandt Images of what appears to be a new 007-branded Kevlar case for HMDs Nokia 6.2 phone have leaked online, and it almost makes the midrange handset look bulletproof. The images were posted to Tw…

In Asia, where I work as a partner at an early-stage VC, startups are regularly rolling out a minimum viable product (MVP) and then transacting on messaging apps. Companies like shoe brand Portblue, AI e-commerce company Sorabel and Sama, an online recruitme…

In 2011, it suddenly became much more difficult to buy a Ford in three specific shades of red. Those colors, as well as one called tuxedo black, relied on a gleaming pigment called Xirallic, which was made by a German company, Merck KGaA, in Onahama, Japan.…

Welcome back to Next-gen Console Watch 2020, our new show following all the news and rumors on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. This week we'll discuss what Ghost of Tsushima's release date might tell us and the possibility of two different PlayStation 5 …

Apple has reopened all of its stores in China as the deadly coronavirus outbreak wanes there. The tech giant’s 42 branded stores across mainland China were due to open for business Friday, according to a company spokesman. Apple had shuttered its Chinese sto…

Microsoft and Samsung partnered up to bring us an enhanced version of the Your Phone service that connects Android phones with Windows machines. The Korean company promised to add even more exclusive improvements to the syncing utility for the Galaxy S20 and …

May is traditionally a month of big developer conferences, with Facebook F8, Google I/O and Microsoft Build often happening within the same two-week period. But not this year. After F8 and I/O were already canceled in favor of online events, Microsoft is now …

Pressure from the global pandemic has broadband companies loosening the arbitrary restrictions on the connections users pay for and this may be the beginning of the end for the data caps we’ve lived in fear of for decades. Here’s why. The coronavirus threat …

Epic Games announced today that it’s buying Cubic Motion, a computer vision startup that’s been building out a platform for capturing more realistic facial animations with a complex camera rig and software platform. The game studio behind Fortnite and the Un…

Amazon issued guidance Thursday in response to the COVID-19 outbreak recommending that global employees who are able to work from home to do so through the end of March. We continue to work closely with public and private medical experts to ensure we are tak…

Google said on Thursday that an employee at its office in Bangalore, India has tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus and the firm has asked all the other employees in that office to work from home on Friday out of abundance of caution. We can confirm …

VoltAero is testing new Safran electric motors on its Cassio e-plane. The electric-hybrid airplane has a few tricks up its sleeves. VoltAero tested Safrans new ENGINeUS smart electric motors on its Cassio airframe. The VoltAero electric and hybrid nine-seate…

EXCLUSIVE: CAA is now telling its staff to stay home, no ifs, ands, or buts. The agency has implemented a plan for all worldwide employees to work remotely, with offices essentially closing at end of business today. Deadline broke last night that a version of…

When Infinity Ward first announced that it was making a free-to-play Call of Duty game called Call of Duty: Warzone, it focused its marketing around Call of Dutys take on battle royale. But while battle royale mode might get people in the door for Warzone, th…

With people around the globe taking extra precautions to prevent infection from the new coronavirus, including increased hand washing, wearing masks (even if theyre not advised if youre not already sick), and avoiding large crowds, theres one item that nearly…

PARIS (Reuters) - France’s competition watchdog is set to fine iPhone maker Apple (AAPL.O) next Monday over anti-competitive behavior in its distribution and sales network, two sources close to the matter said on Thursday. One of the sources said the compet…

Apples 2020 iPhone plans are genuinely exciting with leak after leak pointing to some of the best upgrades in years. And now Apple has accidentally confirmed two of the biggest.  2020 iPhone 12 concept Ben Geskin Apple iPhone 12: Everything We Know So Far …

Coronavirus continues to impact Hollywood. The Morning Show, starring Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon, is taking a two-week hiatus out of concern for the virus. While no one on set is known to be sick or has tested positive, the shutdown is meant to b…

For rally fans, few machines are as legendary as the Subaru Impreza 22B STi from the late 1990s. The car featured in this video looks like a 22B it has the wide fenders, the big wing, and the epic louvered hood that we know and love. It's not a 22B, nor is it…

Google Maps has a few handy features that can help users deal with the novel coronavirus pandemic, including a built-in tool that will let you order food from inside the app.As long as restaurants support the feature and as long as they’re st…

According to a new report from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple could unveil new MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models with scissor-switch keyboards. MacRumors first noticed the report; TechCrunch obtained the research note as well. Apple updated the big MacBook Pro…

Investors are turning to remote-only meetings to combat COVID-19, which was officially declared a pandemic yesterday. The novel coronavirus is already spreading via community contact in the Bay Area; an employee of South Park Cafe, a popular hub for techies …

Theres just been a torrent of economic news since the first identification of patients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China in early December 2019 until the declaration of a global pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday. Investors have fled the pu…

Productivity tools have been a white-hot space, with new startups seeming to nab funding on a daily basis. Coda has been one of the more impactful productivity tools, pitching a richer and deeper collaborative document builder. The startup has picked up $60 …

European on-demand food delivery startups are starting to add ‘contactless’ deliveries in response to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Earlier this month U.S. startups including Postmates and Instacart added an option for customers to choose not to have their meal h…

Fintech startup Revolut has introduced a new trading feature for premium users. Starting today, Premium and Metal users can access gold exposure from the app. Revolut works with a gold services partner (London Bullion Market Association) so that money that y…

Print Management App Enables the print management app that allows Chrome OS users to view and manage their native print jobs. #print-job-management-app The app's development is still in its very early stages, but it will apparently show you your recent pri…

A new security flaw in Intel processors has been disclosed by vulnerability researchers at Bitdefender as well as by a team of academics from universities around the world. The flaw has been given the name Load Value Injection or LVI for short and it represe…

Coinciding with the kickoff of the 2020 TensorFlow Developer Summit, Google today published a pipeline Objectron that spots objects in 2D images and estimates their poses and sizes through an AI model. The company says it has implications for robotics, self-d…

Apple is scaling back Apple Watch and AirPods try-on options at some of its retail stores as part of an effort to cut down on the spread of coronavirus, reports Business Insider. Customers can still ask to try on ‌Apple Watch‌ and ‌AirPods‌ models, but emplo…

One of Blizzard's most veteran developers is moving on. Michael Chu, who first joined Blizzard in 2000 and most recently served as the lead writer for the Overwatch series, has announced he's leaving Blizzard to pursue something new. In a blog post, Chu said…

Watch as the Kombat Kast breakdown the hotly anticipated arrival of Spawn in Mortal Kombat 11. #ign#mk11

Ever since the battle royale craze took flight in 2017, the Call of Duty franchise has been tripping over itself to catch it. The last Call of Duty, Black Ops 4, asked battle royale fans to pay a huge $60 compared to other games bargain price of zero dollars.…

Work is set to begin on a new Witcher game once Cyberpunk 2077 launches, CD Projekt president Adam Kiciski has revealed. Kiciski told a group of journalists (via Eurogamer Poland /PSU ) that a "relatively clear concept" has already been staked down for t…

This week, a team of scientists at Salesforce published a study detailing an AI system ProGen they say is capable of generating proteins in a controllable fashion, such that it could unlock new approaches to protein engineering. If their claims pan out, it co…

Overwatch Leagues planned migration of teams to their respective cities for a full season of home and away games has hit yet another big obstacle. After isolated cancellations of events in China and South Korea, the league has now pulled the plug on all live …

Slack has confirmed that “Slack Calls are experiencing some connectivity difficulties right now.” The company said it is working to resolve the issue “as quickly as possible.” The difficulties coincide with the push from tech companies to move workers to remo…