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Slack just rolled out its AI tools to all paying users, after releasing them to a select subset of customers earlier this year. The companys been teasing these features since last year and, well, now theyre here. The AI auto-generates channel recaps to give people key highlights of stuff they missed while away from the keyboard or smartphone, for keeping track of important work stuff and office in-jokes. Slack says the algorithm that generates these recaps is smart enough to pull content from the various topics discussed in the channel. This means that youll get a paragraph on how plans are going for Jennys cake party in the conference room and another on sales trends or whatever. Theres something similar available for threads, which are smaller conversations between one or a few people. The tool will recap any of these threads into a short paragraph. Customers can also opt into a daily recap for any channel or thread, delivered each morning. Slack Another interesting feature is conversational search. The various Slack channels stretch on forever and it can be tough to find the right chat when necessary. This allows people to ask questions using natural language, with the algorithm doing the actual searching. These tools arent just for English speakers, as Slack AI now offers Japanese and Spanish language support. Slack says itll soon integrate some of its most-used third-party apps into the AI ecosystem. To that end, integration with Salesforces Einstein Copilot is coming in the near future. It remains to be seen if these tools will actually be helpful or if theyre just more excuses to put the letters AI in promotional materials. Ive been on Slack a long time and I havent encountered too many scenarios in which Id need a series of auto-generated recaps, as longer conversations are typically relegated to one-on-one meetings, emails or video streams. However, maybe this will change how people use the service.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/slack-rolls-out-its-ai-tools-to-all-paying-customers-120045296.html?src=rss
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Panic is celebrating Playdate's second birthday this month, and the party favors include some piping-hot statistics about Catalog game sales. Playdate hit the market in April 2022 with 24 free games. Its Catalog store went live in March 2023, offering 16 curated games for purchase directly on the device. Panic has added more titles to Catalog on a bi-weekly basis for the past year, and the marketplace today has 181 games and apps. More than 150,000 games have been sold on Catalog, giving developers $544,290 in gross revenue that's after taxes, processing fees and Panics 25 percent cut. Panic The average price of a Playdate Catalog game is $5.36. The average install size is 5.03MB, while the smallest Catalog game is 30.1KB and the largest is 107MB. Playdate ships with 4GB of flash storage. It also has 16GB of RAM, an accelerometer, a 400 x 240 1-bit display, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth capabilities, a mono speaker, and a condenser mic and stereo headphone jack. Oh, and it has a delightful little crank. The figures Panic shared today cover Catalog purchases, which means they only tell part of the story. While Catalog has just under 200 titles, there are more than 800 Playdate games and apps available on itch.io alone, and the community there is active and vibrant. As I described in our Playdate retrospective published last week, browsing the device's itch.io page feels like "hanging out in a friendly underground clubhouse populated by crank-obsessed video game freaks." But, like, in a great way. Playdate supports games from new and veteran developers, and some of its most notable titles include Mars After Midnight by Lucas Pope, Crankins Time Travel Adventure from Keita Takahashis studio uvula and Zipper by Bennett Foddy. Some of my personal favorites include Root Bear, Spellcorked, Word Trip, Chopter Copter and Pocket Pets. This is the first time Panic has publicly shared data about Playdate game sales or its revenue-share model. The 25 percent cut that Panic takes is less than the standard set by Steam, which gets 30 percent of most game sales, but it's more than split on the Epic Games Store, which reserves 12 percent for Epic. Playdate costs $199 and there's an optional teal cover available for $30. Panic has also been teasing the Stereo Dock an adorable Playdate charging station, Bluetooth speaker and pen holder for more than two years, but the accessory is still "coming soon." There's no word on a price or release window for the Stereo Dock, but Playdate Project Lead Greg Maletic recently told Engadget to expect an update in the coming months. "We apologize to everyone with a Playdate who has been waiting patiently for the Stereo Dock; its been a trickier project than we anticipated and we had a few false starts," Maletic said. "We thought we'd save some time on that project by having our factory do the software for the Stereo Dock, but we've learned that you don't always necessarily want that in some cases. The Stereo Dock is very much alive, we have the physical prototypes to prove it! We expect to have a formal update on when you can buy one later this year." Panic More than 70,000 Playdates have been sold in the past two years and a little more than half of all owners have purchased a Catalog game, according to Panic.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/playdate-developers-have-made-more-than-500k-in-catalog-sales-120034296.html?src=rss
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ASUS has updated its 16-inch Zephyrus G16 for 2024 with fresher chips and graphics options all the way up to an RTX 4090. Theres a new OLED display with a 240HZ refresh rate and a full size SD card reader for transferring files. But, as much as ASUS is positioning this as a laptop for media makers as well as gamers, we need to know if its promises match its power. If youre as curious as I am, youll have to read Sam Rutherfords review to find out for yourself. Dan Cooper The biggest stories you might have missed Media coalition asks the feds to investigate Googles removal of California news links TikTok is trying to clean up its For You recommendations Amazon says a whopping 140 third-party stores in four countries use its Just Walk Out tech Theres a TV show coming based on Segas classic arcade game Golden Axe Cheaper Evercade retro consoles will arrive in July Apple renews For All Mankind and announces a spinoff series set in the Soviet Union TikTok Notes is basically Instagram for your TikTok account Lorelei and the Laser Eyes, by Sayonara Wild Hearts devs, comes out on May 16 Yars Rising revives a 40-year-old Atari game as a modern metroidvania Shadow platformer Schim is coming to PC and consoles on July 18 You can get these reports delivered daily direct to your inbox. Subscribe right here! Xs AI bot is so dumb it cant tell the difference between a bad game and vandalism Theyre called euphemisms, Elon. Basketballs Klay Thompson had a rough time of it at a game, leading X users to suggest he was throwing bricks. This is a basketball term meaning he wasnt throwing well, but if you didnt know it, dont worry too much, since neither did Grok, Xs homegrown AI. After reading the messages, it confected a news story suggesting Thompson was vandalizing homes in Sacramento. Continue Reading. Good riddance, WH-XB910N: Sonys confusing product names are going away Sony catches up to the 19th century. Sonys always been capable of making a great product, but its never quite nailed the knack of naming them. For instance, it makes the best pair of wireless headphones on the market today but saddles them with the name WH-1000XM5. Now, however, the company has pledged to simplify its naming scheme, including renaming its headphone range as Wear. Continue Reading. Nintendo emulator Delta hits the iOS App Store, no sideloading required Apples relaxation of rules around what it permits on the App Store has seen the arrival of Delta. Its a Nintendo emulator (and a successor to GBA4iOS) that runs a plethora of older titles from the companys older consoles. Given its long-running enmity with game emulators and the ease with which it wiped out Yuzu, it cant be long before Nintendos lawyers turn up with a fat stack of cease and desist letters. Continue Reading.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/the-morning-after-is-the-new-zephyrus-g16-any-good-111508697.html?src=rss
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