Google’s AI expert Ian Goodfellow joins Apple as a director of machine learning

Google’s artificial intelligence expert Ian Goodfellow has joined Apple’s Special Projects Group as a director of machine learning. CNBCfirst reported the news yesterday: Goodfellow updated hisLinkedIn profileon Thursday to acknowledge that he moved from Google to Apple in March. He said he’s a director of machine learning in Special Projects Group. In addition to developing AI for features like Face ID and Siri, Apple’s also been working on autonomous driving technology....

July 15, 2025 · 2 min · 319 words · Nicole Martinez

Haven Gets New Trailer from the Developers of Furi

The developer The Game Bakers of the action beat’em upFurireleases a new trailer featuring the sci-fi adventure RPG called Haven. Haven Gets New Trailer from the Developers of Furi Earlier this year in February, developers The Game Bakersannounced their RPG Haven. Described as an adventure RPG that is “about everyday love, rebelling against the rules and also, food”. The narrative follows a pair of lovers who escaped to a lost planet....

July 15, 2025 · 2 min · 282 words · Heather Lopez

How To Change The Brightness On Your iPhone

How To Change The Brightness On Your iPhone As good as iPhone screens have become over the years, readability can still be an issue due to brightness. Chances are you’ve experienced one or two instances where your iPhone’s display was either too dark or too bright to read comfortably, but fortunately it’s pretty easy to adjust it. It’s also possible (and likely if you don’t often change your iPhone’s default settings) that you’ll notice your screen changing brightness on its own....

July 15, 2025 · 2 min · 319 words · Derek Davis

How to Disable Depth of Field in The Plucky Squire

The Plucky Squireis a visually stunning title that makes excellent use of Unreal Engine to create a living-breathing room full of detailed objects, believable lighting, and some fantastic models. The PC version has plenty of settings to adjust, and the game really comes out at max settings. However, like many other Unreal Engine releases, post-processing toggles like chromatic aberration are absent in the settings. Here is how you may disable the depth of field effect in The Plucky Squire....

July 15, 2025 · 2 min · 308 words · Christopher Castaneda

How To Manually Update to Zenless Zone Zero Version 1.5

The latest update forZenless Zone Zerois now available across all platforms including PC. The banner features two new S-Rank agents including Astra Yao and Evelyn. Despite miHoYo’s attempts to improve the update process thanks to the unified launcher, HoyoPlay, things still aren’t perfect. To minimize interaction with the launcher, here’s how you can manually update to Zenless Zone Zero version 1.5 on PC. Manually Update to Zenless Zone Zero Version 1....

July 15, 2025 · 2 min · 399 words · Wanda Chen

How to Secure Votes in The Sims 4

Politics can be a wild conversation topic. In The Sims 4, you’re able to go down this path and become a national leader or a charity icon. To become a high-ranking political leader, you must learn to secure votes for your party, perform speeches, and persuade others to join your cause. If you’re ready to begin your life as an aspiring politician, continue reading to learn how to secure votes in The Sims 4: City Living....

July 15, 2025 · 2 min · 368 words · Jamie Lane

How to solve all Tsurumi Island Relay Stone puzzles in Genshin Impact

Relay Stone puzzles are rampant in Inazuma. These puzzles are simple in theory—players must create anElectro Currentby connecting Discharge and Cumulation Stones with Relay Stones. But with the game’s penchant for putting in all sorts of confusing mechanics, these puzzles can be more troublesome than they initially seem. There are eight Relay Stone puzzles in Tsurumi Island—here’s how to solve them. Shirikoro Peak There are four Relay Stone puzzles in Shirikoro Peak, thefirst threeof which are necessary to complete theA Particularly Particular AuthorWorld Quest, a prerequisite to unlocking the rest of the island....

July 15, 2025 · 6 min · 1145 words · John Martinez

How to Solve the Navigation Compass Puzzle in Honkai: Star Rail

As you travel through the galaxy in Honkai: Star Rail, new challenges, enemies and hazards will start appearing for you to conquer. And those obviously include new puzzles, each of them getting harder and harder than the previous ones. When you arrive at the Xianzhou Luofu, you’ll be faced with one of them: theNavigation Compass, a new type of puzzle resembling a sundial. While initially, it looks like it’s just another nonsense obstacle whose only purpose is to make you lose your precious time, the logic behind it is pretty simple to follow, and here’s how you can solve it....

July 15, 2025 · 3 min · 477 words · Gary Wheeler

Huawei Watch GT 2 review: Simplistic yet stylish

Huawei’s first smartwatch running its own operating system, the Watch GT, was an intriguing and promising product when it launched; offering a simple user interface, super-long battery life and in-depth fitness tracking. The Watch GT 2 builds on that with two new sleeker designs, using the same simple user interface (UI) but with some added features. Huawei has tried to balance performance and battery life, while including plenty of features to keep fitness fanatics happy....

July 15, 2025 · 10 min · 1987 words · Kimberly Preston

iDownloadBlog heads to CES 2013

Boasting more than 40 years of experience, theInternational Consumer Electronic Show(CES) is the largest event of its type across the world and this year is no exception. As we head to January 8, the whole tech world is preparing for the largest trade show in global history, with a show floor of 1.86 million square feet. Thousands of companies, techies, press, and gadgets will be huddled together at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Nevada....

July 15, 2025 · 3 min · 608 words · Sarah Patel

Jules Verne: The Sci-Fi Writer Who Predicted the Future

Follow us on Google News Get the latest updates directly in your Google News feed Since the dawn of modern science and technology, authors have been embracing their inner futurist and writing about what they believed the future would bring us. Sometimes, that led to wacky and fantastical concepts like hoverboards, but other times,sci-fi predicting the futureled to something that came remarkably close to what actually happened. Perhaps the most famous and most eerily correct comes from science fiction writer Jules Verne....

July 15, 2025 · 6 min · 1095 words · Samuel Kennedy

Lara Croft GO gets its first expansion

Just in time for Thanksgiving, Square Enix’sLara Croft GO for iOShas received its first expansion pack following the game’s August 2015 debut in the App Store. Titled “The Shard of Life” and available at no charge to those who have purchased the game, the update packs in more than two-dozen additional levels and a bunch of new monsters to defeat, costumes to unlock and gemstones and artifacts to discover. In celebration of the content pack, the game is now 40 percent off in the App Store, for a limited time....

July 15, 2025 · 2 min · 279 words · Meagan Lindsey

New World Roadmap Released Outlines New Weapons, Expeditions and Events

There seems to be a bevvy of content heading to MMORPG New World which includes new dungeons, weapons, events, PVP content and more. New World Roadmap Released Outlines New Weapons, Expeditions and Events Amazon Games has unveiled their roadmap for New World this year, which covers spring to autumn. The content heading our way includes new expeditions, a couple of new weapons, events, PVP content, a new area to explore and much more....

July 15, 2025 · 3 min · 511 words · Christina Collins