Monster Hunter Generations, limited edition New 3DS XLs debut in July and other top stories.

• Monster Hunter Generations, limited edition New 3DS XLs debut in July

  

  Capcom’s multiplayer creature-battling action game Monster Hunter Generations will make its English-language debut in July alongside a pair of limited edition New Nintendo 3DS XL portables, Nintendo announced today. Players in North America can expect to see a blue Monster Hunter-themed New 3DS XL portable this summer, while Europe gets a region-exclusive red variant. Both editions will include a digital copy of Monster Hunter Generations. Released in Japan in 2015, Monster Hunter Generations ..

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• BMW readies electric, self-driving flagship car

  

  Requested Article BMW readies electric, self-driving flagship car BMW's iNext electric car is set to enter showrooms in 2021 and will be able to drive itself in many situations, CEO Harald Krueger told shareholders.

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• Nvidia's 'Founders Edition' graphics cards have been demystified

  

  Kyle Bennett of HardOCP has gotten to the bottom of one of this week's tech mysteries: what exactly is an Nvidia Founders Edition graphics card? When it announced its awesome new GeForce GTX 1080 and 1070 cards, Nvidia noted that each would be offered in a Founders Edition, costing $100 and $70 more than their typical retail prices — but it didn't explain what would be different about those variants of its new Pascal GPUs. Wherefore art thou more expensive, Pascal? As it turns out, the Founders..

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• Google is hiring autonomous car testers in Arizona

  

  If you're in Arizona, Google is hiring for a gig that could be a good alternative to doing Uber. The job entails test driving an autonomous car around the state for $20 an hour, six to eight hours a day. You'll still need to know how to actually drive to be able to take the wheel if needed. But since your role is testing out the big G's new technology, you're expected to provide the engineering team "concise written and oral feedback," submit daily reports and document any test or procedure per..

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• What Apple's Investment in Chinese Car Hailing Giant Didi Really Means

  

  Apple gave Uber’s main competitor in China a big boost today in a deal that could also improve Apple’s fledgling services in the country. The country’s top car hailing startup Didi Chuxing (formerly Didi Kuaidi) said today it had accepted $1 billion from Apple aapl as part of an ongoing fundraising round expected to raise up to $2 billion for the four-year-old startup. Uber and Didi are in a heated competition for market share in the world’s biggest consumer market and both estimated to ..

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• Google is giving away the tool it uses to understand language, Parsey McParseface

  

  Say hello to Parsey McParseface. Yes, to get you to pay attention to what would otherwise be a fairly dense and nerdy thing, Google is using an homage to Boaty McBoatface for one of the software tools it's releasing today. But don't just laugh (or groan) at the name, what Google is giving developers and researchers access to is a big deal. Today, it's open-sourcing something it calls SyntaxNet and a component for it, Mr. McParseface. These are some of the tools that Google uses to understand na..

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