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- Apple Officially Terminates Epic Games' App Store Developer Account - HYPEBEAST
- Apple’s Massive iPhone 12 Upgrade Suddenly Confirmed - Forbes
- Amazon’s new fitness tracker Halo will monitor your tone of voice - Quartz
| Apple Officially Terminates Epic Games' App Store Developer Account - HYPEBEAST Posted: 28 Aug 2020 09:33 PM PDT  Staying true to its word, Apple has now terminated Epic Games' developer account over on its App Store. The move comes following an ongoing legal battle between the tech giant and the video game developer and publisher over Fortnite and its bypassing of the App Store for in-game transactions, which Apple normally takes a 30 percent cut of. The termination now means that Fortnite will no longer be available on the digital store, and those who have already downloaded the game will not be able to update it beyond August 28. Apple issued the following statement regarding the termination:
Notably, the new move by Apple does not affect Epic's other account used to maintain its Unreal Engine, as a judge said earlier this week that blocking this alternative account to retaliate against Fortnite would seem "like an overreach." Stay tuned as the story develops. Elsewhere in gaming, Champion has introduced patented hoodies for gamers. |
| Apple’s Massive iPhone 12 Upgrade Suddenly Confirmed - Forbes Posted: 29 Aug 2020 06:25 AM PDT The release of Apple's iPhone 12 range may be shrouded in mystery, but we now know their increased price tags will be matched by an equally massive upgrade.  iPhone 12 Max, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone 12 proportional renders, based on new leaks In a new exclusive, major YouTuber Filip Koroy (aka EverythingApplePro) has partnered with prolific leaker Max Weinbach to reveal Apple's iPhone 12 Pro Max will have the biggest display ever seen on an iPhone and the highest resolution. But he also has leaked images of the device and it does not look like everyone expected. Addressing the display, Koroy states that the iPhone 12 Pro Max will jump to a 6.7-inch, 2788 x 1284 pixel screen, up from the 6.5-inch, 2688 x 1242 iPhone 11 Pro Max. Due to its larger size, the new phone's pixel density will be the same as the iPhone 11 Pro Max (451ppi), while Koroy confirms there will be no return for 3D Touch. But what will really get Apple fans talking, is the new iPhone's design. Koroy has attained real world images of an iPhone 12 Pro Max PVT (Product Validation Test) model, the last version of a device before it enters mass production. And, despite multiple rumors to the contrary, it shows Apple will retain the same large notch first introduced with the 2017 iPhone X. There is also little evidence from the images that the range will have significantly thinner bezels, so the iPhone 12 Pro Max may be even larger than anticipated though 120Hz clearly still remains in the balance.  Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max real world PVT model shows the same last notch as recent years, while 120Hz ... [+] One thing that will be smaller, however, is the box because Koroy shows off material that reveals Apple is upgrading the iPhone 12 range's fast charger from 18W to 20W (as recently certified), but it will be "sold separately". This move will keep prices down as Apple adds expensive new 5G modems into the iPhone 12 line-up, but it does mean users will have to pay more for phones which seemingly will not last as long. Despite this, the iPhone 12 still looks set to sell like hot cakes, thanks to a new chassis design, clever camera tech and barnstorming performance. A cheaper model is on the horizon, however, so keep this in mind when Apple eventually launches these devices following tease after tease. ___ Follow Gordon on Facebook More On Forbes New iPhone 12 Renders Reveal Apple's Smallest New iPhone |
| Amazon’s new fitness tracker Halo will monitor your tone of voice - Quartz Posted: 28 Aug 2020 02:41 PM PDT  Amazon may not have unlocked the secret to happiness. But with the announcement of a new voice monitoring tool called Tone, the company promises that it knows what happiness sounds like. And that—with a new gadget and a little tracking—you, too, can sound happy. Tone will be a feature on Amazon's new wearable health tracker, dubbed Halo. Users can opt in to let it sample snippets of their speech throughout the day, or turn it on for up to 30 minutes at a time to get a detailed report on how they sounded in a particular conversation. Powered by AI algorithms designed to detect the "positivity" and "energy" in human voices, the tool purports to offer users feedback on their tone so they can improve their communication skills and relationships. Of course, it's hard to define fuzzy traits like positivity—and it's an even more Herculean task to train an AI model to objectively quantify and measure them. In a blog post, Amazon simply says that "positivity" measures how happy or sad a voice sounds. But humanity (and the field of positive psychology) have been wrestling with how to define happiness for eons. "It's hard for me to imagine that there could be a single objective measure," said Jim Allen, an associate professor of psychology at the State University of New York at Geneseo who writes and teaches about the psychology of happiness. Our perception of what a happy voice sounds like, he notes, varies depending on culture, gender, ethnicity, and other personal factors. An Amazon spokesperson said that the developers had accounted for these differences by drawing on vocal samples from tens of thousands of voices from across US regions and demographic groups. A team of Amazon employees then listened to the recordings and rated the voices as happy or sad to determine "positivity" and tired or excited to measure "energy." The model associated those emotional ratings with vocal qualities like pitch, intensity, tempo, and rhythm, which the AI uses to label users' speech. Training sets, however, are highly susceptible to bias from the humans who build them, as researchers have extensively documented in fields like facial recognition. That makes vetting the data, and the people who label it, very important. Amazon declined to offer any detail about the demographic breakdown of its vocal samples, or the team whose perceptions of positivity and energy form the basis for the model. "Throughout product development, we've focused on ensuring the data we use to train and evaluate our models accounts for all demographic groups," a spokesperson said in an email. In particular contexts, Allen said some version of a tool like Tone could work well. "In the hands of a skilled counselor giving feedback to a client about how they come across to other people, it could be really helpful," he said. But, he noted, constantly monitoring yourself for signs of happiness—or worse, projecting a positivity you do not feel—has been shown to make people less happy. Pattie Maes, an MIT professor who studies wearable technology designed to enhance people's lives, pointed out that the AI would be more likely to return meaningful results if it didn't try to treat happiness as a universal truth. "People have different speaking styles," she said in an email. "I believe a personalized AI model trained on an individual's own data would perform better." (While Tone learns to pick out a user's voice in a conversation, it does not calibrate its ratings to that user's emotional baseline.) But these approaches to boosting the model's validity are not compatible with mass consumer tech. In its announcement blog post, Amazon medical officer Maulik Majmudar describes a gadget that comes out of a box ready to coax users into better communication. He writes about the ease with which his colleagues can turn on Tone and rehearse for a big presentation at work. Majmudar says he switches the system on before talking to his children, to make sure he's not taking work stress out on his family. It's an intriguing vision for an AI-enabled future. But it might not be the one we live in right now. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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