Month: August 2019

Sony Interactive Entertainment on Monday announced a deal to buy Insomniac Games, the studio behind hot-selling Spider-Man and Ratchet & Clank video games. Sony did not disclose financial terms of the acquisition that will add Insomniac to its stable of studios making games exclusively for the Japanese consumer electronics giant’s PlayStation consoles. “Insomniac Games is one of
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Microsoft’s Surface devices have been hit by a severe CPU throttling issue, causing the processor to throttle down to just 400MHz. Additionally, some users are reporting Wi-Fi connectivity issues, specifically while trying to connect with a 5GHz network, after downloading new firmware updates that were reportedly released earlier this month. Microsoft has been made aware
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Superlatives abound at Cerebras, the until-today stealthy next-generation silicon chip company looking to make training a deep learning model as quick as buying toothpaste from Amazon. Launching after almost three years of quiet development, Cerebras introduced its new chip today — and it is a doozy. The “Wafer Scale Engine” is 1.2 trillion transistors (the
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As the war between digital assistants intensifies, Google Assistant has once again beaten Amazon Alexa and Apple Siri when it comes to answering queries correctly on smartphones. In its annual test, research-driven venture capital firm Loup Ventures found that Google Assistant understood every single query and answered correctly 92.9 percent of the time. The research
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Google has removed 85 apps from its Play Store after security researchers at Trend Micro found a particularly annoying adware hiding inside. “We found another example of adware’s potential real-life impact on Google Play. Trend Micro detects this as AndroidOS_Hidenad.HRXH. Apart from displaying advertisements that are difficult to close, it employs unique techniques to evade
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Zomato Founder Deepinder Goyal took to Twitter on Saturday evening to respond to the Logout movement by the National Restaurant Association of India (NRAI), which saw nearly 300 restaurants in Gurugram de-listing themselves from platforms such as Zomato Gold, EazyDiner, and Dineout’s Gourmet Passport, among others, over deep discounting practices. Meanwhile, restaurants under the NRAI
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