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China’s Ministry of Education issued a notice on Thursday aimed at preventing myopia, or nearsightedness, among children and adolescents by limiting the screen time for mobile devices, PCs, and consoles, according to market researcher Niko Partners. The aim is to reduce the myopia rate among kids and teens by more than 5 percentage points thr… Read More Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

(Reuters) — Russia is experimenting with more precise technology to block individual online services after an attempt to shut down banned messaging service Telegram failed, but Moscow has yet to find a way to shut it down without hitting other traffic. Telegram, which has 200 million global users and has been popular in countries including Ru… Read More Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

The Melbourne International Games Week (MIGW) showed off its event program today, and it sheds light on how big Australia’s game business has become. Overall, there are 225 game companies in Australia, as of July 2017, and 75 percent of them are indies. Melbourne is the home for Australia’s largest games festival, and it’s part of the s… Read More Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

GUEST: Chances are you’ve heard about how huge esports is becoming. It’s on TV channels like ESPN and TBS, it has hundreds of thousands –or even millions — of dollars in prizes. And it’s the industry that’s drawn investment from a number of mainstream brands, and even A-list celebrities such as Jennifer Lopez and Shaquille O’Neal.… Read More Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani activist for female schooling and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate, spoke today about the role of technology in helping spread education, the importance of raising awareness for the various injustices in the world, and the inspiration she draws from magic. Malala made a wide variety of comments onstage at Pluralsight Li… Read More Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

One day, you’ll have the chance to look a young person in the eye and tell them that you lived through the GPU drought of 2017. And that young person will turn up the volume on their brain-implanted computer and ignore you. But forget about Generation Omega or whatever we’ll call them — now is a time to celebrate that cult-like sp… Read More Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

GUEST: Automation is stripping away jobs from entire industries in the United States — and the pace of job loss is accelerating. Whole segments of the population are forced to work harder for less money. Our education has been stagnating for centuries. Leaders like Alibaba CEO Jack Ma argue that we are heading for disaster if we continue to t… Read More Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

Up until recently, the headset I used the most often while playing games was the Turtle Beach Elite Pro. I liked the PC Edition, which plugged directly into the PC with a USB cable. But I had to stop using mine because I damaged the microphone jack, which created some loud static when I would try to record something or talk to people on Discord. So… Read More Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

Once a maker of only routers and switches, Netgear is getting more hip with each new product launch. Today, the company is unveiling the Orbi Voice Smart Speaker, a router that includes a mesh Wi-Fi system based on its Orbi WiFi extension networking technology, a built-in Amazon Alexa smart speaker, and high-quality Harman Kardon audio. The Orbi Vo… Read More Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

Only hours after Apple announced its September 12 media event, a leak of official images and details at 9to5Mac has confirmed the naming conventions and looks for Apple’s flagship iPhones: the 5.8-inch and 6.5-inch iPhone XS. Another leak has confirmed a larger-screened, redesigned Apple Watch Series 4, which similarly has been rumored for mo… Read More Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

China’s Tencent is extending its reach into the video game industry with the announcement of a plan to create original game properties with Square Enix, the Japanese maker of publisher of the Final Fantasy and Tomb Raider series. Tencent Holdings and Square Enix said they have signed a letter of intent for a strategic alliance. The companies… Read More Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

Starting next year, many of Toshiba’s OLED, 4K, and Full HD Smart Range televisions will respond to Alexa voice control, the company announced today. Alexa in Toshiba televisions will be able to do things like change the channel or volume, deliver movie recommendations, read the news, or launch more than 45,000 Alexa skills. Toshiba also unve… Read More Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

Electronic Arts has pushed Battlefield V out of October in favor of a November 20 release date. The publisher cited the need for “final adjustments,” but investors don’t seem interested in the excuse. EA’s stock price has dropped 9 percent from $128.52 at the end of Wednesday down to $116.68, according to Google Finance. Bat… Read More Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

Two months after releasing its ads transparency center, Twitter announced its new policy on how it will regulate issue ads — ads that “advocate for legislative issues of national importance.” Twitter already said that it was working on establishing an issue ads policy, so today’s news doesn’t come as a surprise. It als… Read More Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

Starting today, Google Assistant can now speak two languages at once. At feature launch, Google Assistant will be able to speak a combination of English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish. Multilingual support will expand to include more languages in the coming months, a company spokesperson told VentureBeat in an email. Google Assista… Read More Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

Mozilla today announced that Firefox will soon block web trackers by default. In conjunction, Firefox will also let users control what information they share with sites. Web trackers are used mainly for targeted advertising and broad user data collection. Mozilla wants to protect users from websites using abusive trackers, improving both performanc… Read More Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

Open-source mapping software Mapbox said that the person responsible for an antisemitic label added to its maps on Thursday morning also “attempted several other hateful edits,” and that its security team is still working to determine the exact origin of the vandalism. “Mapbox has a zero tolerance policy against hate speech and an… Read More Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

Apple has officially sent out invitations to its latest media event, “Gather round,” which will be held on September 12, 2018 — a year to the day after the iPhone 8 and iPhone X were officially revealed. Following recent tradition, the event will start at 10 a.m. Pacific, and will be held in the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple’s… Read More Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

ZTE has been making headlines for all the wrong reasons lately. The Chinese electronics company was the target of a U.S. Congressional bill that sought to ban government agencies from purchasing its networking equipment, and it suffered another blow when the Senate voted to reinstate a (since suspended) export ban on its consumer device lineup. But… Read More Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

Classroom walls and refrigerators are home to so many kids’ hand-drawn works of art, and now those drawings can come to life with Osmo Super Studio featuring Disney’s Mickey Mouse & Friends. Augmented reality kids app maker Osmo has teamed up with Disney for the first time to combine its reflective artificial intelligence system wit… Read More Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

‘Tis the season for speakers. Case in point? The music maestros at Marshall today announced new additions to their product lineup — the Kilburn II, Action II Voice, and Stanmore II Voice — which will go on sale later this year. The latter two are Marshall’s first smart speakers: Both tap Amazon’s Alexa Voice service (a… Read More Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

Olloclip has announced a Multi-Device Clip designed to easily enhance the cameras on most smartphones with more powerful lenses, such as fisheye lenses or zoom lenses. This could widen the market for attachable smartphone lenses. I’ve used Olloclip attachments for iPhones for years. But with the variation in phone sizes and cases, it’s… Read More Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

ANALYSIS: It’s no surprise at this point that Apple is actively working on augmented reality glasses. A secretive project has been underway for years under the management of former Dolby executive Mike Rockwell, and Apple has broadly hinted that its AR ambitions extend beyond the iPhone’s and iPad’s ARKit software. While Apple… Read More Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

Radial Games released its subway-based puzzle game Mini Metro on Switch today. This version of the indie PC/mobile hit includes an exclusive multiplayer mode. Mini Metro is available digitally on Switch for $10. Mini Metro first released for PC in 2015, with a mobile version following in 2016. The game has players designing their own metro systems,… Read More Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen

Developers aren’t always blessed with the best design skills, which is why they often work in tandem with graphic designers. But small companies or independents may not have the resources for a graphic design team or want to employ the services of a dedicated designer if the work in question is minimal. With that in mind, Amazon today lifted… Read More Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen