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A short history of every time Apple CEO Tim Cook praised augmented reality

The Verge

The number one thing is to make sure our products work well with other developers’ kind of products like Pokémon , that’s why you see so many iPhones in the wild chasing pokemons.” Even introverts are social people, we like people and we want to interact. Cook pronounces it “pokey-mans.”). And it’s an incredible runway.

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Elon Musk thinks we’re close to solving AI. That doesn’t make it true.

Vox

It’s perfectly fine for people to influence different fields, and Musk’s work on driverless cars has undoubtedly influenced the development of AI. In October 2016, he predicted that a Tesla would drive itself from California to New York by 2017. (It But an awful lot of what he says about AI has been wrong.

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2020 Game Awards: Nintendo reveals new Smash character; ‘Among Us’ debuts a new map; and more

GeekWire

This year’s Game Awards took place Thursday as a socially-distant event, with hosts Geoff Keighley and Sydnee Goodman presiding over an evening of announcements, teasers, trailers, and occasionally, even the presentation of an award. Twitch screenshot). Studio Wildcard, in Kirkland, Wash.,

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Apple stumbled into a war with the gaming industry, and the future of iOS is at stake

The Verge

But Epic’s dramatic public performance — an unprecedented bit of corporate trolling the likes of which we’ve never seen — sets up the feud with Apple as a fight bordering on good versus evil, with Apple the corporate bad guy aggressively taxing and restricting developers. But the comparison to Netflix or Spotify is beside the point.

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How Snapchat became the forgotten social platform

Vox

Snap is, in its own words , a camera company sustained on intimacy and existing social networks. But beyond these core social features, Snap has bigger ambitions with augmented and virtual reality. Most social media users are already familiar with AR technology, whether they’re aware of it or not. The cultural decline of Snap.

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Balancing act: What Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan’s short tenure says about running a tech hub

GeekWire

The Seattle business community threw its influence and financial weight behind Durkan during her candidacy, helping her soar to victory in 2017 with 56% of the vote. “The biggest missed opportunity in my view is the city never engaged in workforce development,” he said. Taxing the tech industry. ” Tech hub turmoil.

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Inside the world of aviation, space and defense news with the team behind Hype Aviation

GeekWire

So I started working on this little side project in 2017. So in that job at that time, I started to get into web development, just taught myself, and wanted to do more on the technical side of things. And I got so charged up by that, I saw that social media was taking off, and I needed to come up with a brand for myself.

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