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CraftAssist: An open-source framework to enable interactive bots in Minecraft by Facebook researchers

Two days ago, researchers from Facebook AI Research published a paper titled “CraftAssist: A Framework for Dialogue-enabled Interactive Agents”. The authors of this research...
Browsing a Virtual World

Microsoft Azure VP demonstrates Holoportation, a reconstructed transmittable 3D technology

One of the major highlights at the ongoing Microsoft Inspire 2019 at Las Vegas, was the demonstration of Holoportation by Azure Corporate Vice President...
announcement

Facebook released Hermes, an open source JavaScript engine to run React Native apps on...

Yesterday Facebook released a new JavaScript engine called Hermes under an open source MIT license. According to Facebook, this new engine will speed up...
Apple iOS 12 beta 2

Google Project Zero reveals an iMessage bug that bricks iPhone causing repetitive crash and...

A zero-day vulnerability in Apple's iMessage, which bricks an iPhone and survives hard resets was recently brought to light. A specific type of malformed...
FaceTime

‘FaceTime Attention Correction’ in iOS 13 Beta 3 uses ARKit to fake eye contact

On Tuesday, Apple released iOS 13 beta 3, which came with an interesting feature called FaceTime Attention Correction. This feature aims to fix a...

Are you looking at transitioning from being a developer to manager? Here are some...

What does the phrase "a manager" really mean anyway? This phrase means different things to different people and is often overused for the position...
mobile development

React Native 0.60 releases with accessibility improvements, AndroidX support, and more

Yesterday, the team behind React Native announced the release of React Native 0.60. This release brings accessibility improvements, a new app screen, AndroidX support,...
Apple iOS 12 beta 2

OpenID Foundation questions Apple’s Sign In feature, says it has security and privacy risks

The OpenID foundation has written an open letter to Apple arguing that the upcoming ‘Sign in with Apple’ feature bears similarities to OpenID Connect, ...
distributed network

Lyft announces Envoy Mobile, an iOS and Android client network library for mobile application...

Yesterday, Lyft released the initial OSS preview release of Envoy Mobile. This is an iOS and Android client network library that brings Lyft’s Envoy...
Augmented Reality

Developers can now incorporate Unity features into native iOS and Android apps

Yesterday, Unity made an update stating that from Unity 2019.3.a2 onwards, Android and iOS developers will be able to incorporate Unity features into their...

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You can now use fingerprint or screen lock instead of passwords...

Google has announced a FIDO2 based local user verification for Google Accounts, for a simpler authentication experience when viewing saved passwords for a website....

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