Month: May 2020

Nvidia learns its lesson after several publisher drop-outs. In context: Nvidia’s GeForce Now platform is one of the more popular game streaming services on the market. Instead of forcing consumers to buy titles they already own, GeForce Now links up with their existing digital libraries. This lets consumers play a plethora of games at no additional cost, … Continue reading Nvidia introduces ‘opt-in’ policy for GeForce Now to prevent game removals Continue Reading →

Instagram  today is launching new tools that enable video creators to make money, including badges that viewers can purchase during Instagram Live videos and the introduction of IGTV ads. Both launches are considered a test, as the company is limiting the features’ availability during its experimentation phase, it says. Badges will give viewers a way to … Continue reading Instagram to test new revenue streams, including badges and IGTV ads Continue Reading →

Amazon’s Fire TV Sticks are on sale too. Amazon is discounting some of its streaming gear today, with price cuts on its Fire TV Cube, Fire TV Stick and Fire TV Stick 4K. These aren’t the lowest prices we’ve seen, but they are all good deals that don’t pop up too often. We probably won’t … Continue reading Amazon’s Fire TV Cube drops to $100 Continue Reading →

It’s only for the web app, though. Gmail is a simple and relatively sleek email client. That doesn’t quite apply to its settings interface, though, which is a bit of a mess. A new quick settings menu should help to clean things up. When a user clicks the gear icon, they will be presented with both a sidebar … Continue reading Google rolls out a simplified Gmail settings menu Continue Reading →

The European Commission  is proposing to direct billions of euros of financial relief into high tech and green investments to help the bloc recover from the coronavirus crisis. Technologies such as 5G, AI, cloud, cybersecurity, supercomputing and renewable energy look set to benefit from a €750BN pan-EU support package set out today — aligning with the Commission’s … Continue reading 5G, AI, cybersecurity and renewable energy set for investment boost under EU coronavirus recovery plan Continue Reading →

In a nutshell: The feature is meant to supplement existing sanitation methods, not replace them. Heat, Ford said, has the ability to penetrate crevices and other hard-to-reach areas that could get overlooked when humans manually apply chemical disinfectants. Ford on Wednesday announced it is piloting a software solution to help law enforcement curb the spread of Covid-19 inside … Continue reading Ford’s software update for police interceptors combats Covid-19 by cranking the heat Continue Reading →

Insiders say it’s happening, but scheduling might change In context: If you are ready for a glimpse of upcoming PS5 games, your wait might be over next week. Barring a scheduling SNAFU, Sony could be holding its first official games reveal for its next-gen console. Get ready for the hype to commence in full. Sony might be … Continue reading Sony could be holding a PlayStation 5 game showcase next Wednesday Continue Reading →

To help tackle those issues, the team mapped the locations of those neurons in a rat’s heart in vivid 3D detail. “In effect what we have created is the first comprehensive roadmap of the heart’s nervous system that can be referenced by other researchers for a range of questions about the function, physiology, and connectivity … Continue reading Creating the first 3D map of the heart’s ‘brain’ Continue Reading →