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After my first gameplay demo of Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla, I came away nonplussed. I didn’t think that Ubisoft’s upcoming viking-themed game was bad, but it felt too similar to the franchise’s last couple of games. Last week, I got a chance to play the open world game again, this time for about 5 hours. Now…

International digital and human rights organization Access Now has resigned in protest from the Partnership on AI (PAI), citing a lack of meaningful change on the part of businesses associated with the group and their failure to incoporate positions held by civil society organizations. PAI was formed in September 2016 by a consortium of Big…

Game monetization firm Beamable has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this week, but in an interview, CEO Jon Radoff said the company still plans to operate. Radoff said the company hopes to go through a quick bankruptcy process and clean up its balance sheet so it can continue its work handling server and monetization…

Though it was held this year in October instead of September, Apple’s “Hi, Speed” media event was a largely typical iPhone launch party, opening with the expansion of its Siri-powered line of HomePod speakers (“Hi”), and concluding with the long-awaited addition of 5G cellular connectivity to the iPhone lineup (“Speed”). Some companies might have tread cautiously…

Back in January, Google Health, the branch of Google focused on health-related research, clinical tools, and partnerships for health care services, released an AI model trained on over 90,000 mammogram X-rays that the company said achieved better results than human radiologists. Google claimed that the algorithm could recognize more false negatives — the kind of…

I have tested a lot of multi-function robot vacuums recently – robots that sweep and mop simultaneously like the quirky D-shaped Hobot Legee 688, the powerful 360 S9, or the Ecovacs T8 robot and accessories. It is not often I get to take a look at a single function sweeping robot. The Roborock S4 Max…

Over the Amazon Prime Day shopping event, you can expect to see a variety of tower PCs, as well as laptops of all shapes and sizes, on offer from a variety of vendors. Chromebooks are another entry into the mix as lightweight, portable notebooks that run on Google’s ChromeOS operating system.  If you are in…

Amazon’s Prime Day event, taking place over 48 hours this year, is a time when you can snap up bargains on PCs, laptops, and mobile devices ahead of the holiday season. Whether you are in the market for a laptop refresh, you need a new PC now you are working remotely and from home, or…

Working from home is no longer uncommon as the coronavirus pandemic has forced businesses into rapidly establishing ways for employees to accept corporate resources remotely — and for staff to quickly create home offices that will likely be in use for the foreseeable future.  With no end to remote working conditions in sight, now is…

Amazon’s Prime Day is a key event for shoppers looking for bargains and gifts ahead of the holiday period — even in a time where the COVID-19 pandemic has caused severe economic disruption and delivery capacity problems — but the e-commerce giant is no longer the only vendor seeking to capitalize on the shopping season. …