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How To Clean Your Phone, Keyboard, And Other Tech

COVID-19 (aka coronavirus) has sparked a lot more diligence when it comes to cleaning your hands, but it's also important to keep your most-used items clean as well. For us and many of you, that includes our tech devices, like phones, keyboards, and controllers. It can be hard to know what's safe to use on your expensive gadgets or what's even effective--there are a lot of products out there that are good at getting your stuff wet but not necessarily clean.To demystify the process, we've put together this quick-and-easy guide

How Artificial Intelligence is changing the gaming industry

Artificial intelligence (AI) in gaming isn’t a recent innovation. As early as 1949, mathematician and cryptographer Claude Shannon pondered a one-player chess game, in which humans would compete against a computer.Indeed, gaming has been a key engine of AI, and a proving ground for the simulations, constructed environments and tests of realism that are the foundation of virtual experiences.AI for the gaming experienceIn 1989’s Sim City, for example, players controlled complex simulations, and rudimentary gaming AI was deployed to simulate something close to realism – i.e. deeply human characteristics like unpredictability.