Record-Breaking Holiday Season for the App Store
CUPERTINO, California — January 6, 2016 — Apple® today announced that customers around the world made this holiday season the biggest ever for the App Store®, setting new records during the weeks of Christmas and New Year’s. In the two weeks ending January 3, customers spent over $1.1 billion on apps and in-app purchases, setting back-to-back weekly records for traffic and purchases. January 1, 2016 marked the biggest day in App Store...
Valve has fired its ‘Dota 2’ Shanghai Major tournament host
Gabe Newell, head honcho at Valve, has abruptly (and very publicly) fired ‘Dota 2’ Shanghai Major tournament host James “2GD” Harding. Newell made the announcement via Reddit on Friday, stating “We’ve had issues with James at previous events. Some Valve people lobbied to bring him back for Shanghai, feeling that he deserved another chance. That was a mistake. James is an ass, and we won’t be...
Valve has fired its ‘Dota 2’ Shanghai Major tournament host
Gabe Newell, head honcho at Valve, has abruptly (and very publicly) fired ‘Dota 2’ Shanghai Major tournament host James “2GD” Harding. Newell made the announcement via Reddit on Friday, stating “We’ve had issues with James at previous events. Some Valve people lobbied to bring him back for Shanghai, feeling that he deserved another chance. That was a mistake. James is an ass, and we won’t be...
AI learns to predict human reactions by reading our fiction
“Over many millions of words, these mundane patterns [of people’s reactions] are far more common than their dramatic counterparts,” the team wrote in their study. “Characters in modern fiction turn on the lights after entering rooms; they react to compliments by blushing; they do not answer their phones when they are in meetings.” In its initial field tests, using an Augur-powered wearable camera, the...
AI learns to predict human reactions by reading our fiction
“Over many millions of words, these mundane patterns [of people’s reactions] are far more common than their dramatic counterparts,” the team wrote in their study. “Characters in modern fiction turn on the lights after entering rooms; they react to compliments by blushing; they do not answer their phones when they are in meetings.” In its initial field tests, using an Augur-powered wearable camera, the...
