With Apple and Samsung awaiting a ruling on alleged tablet patent infringements by the Korean vendor with its Galaxy Tab 10.1 device on September 15, both companies have agreed not to file any further legal action against one another in the Netherlands until that decision is reached, meaning the tablet could continue to sell in the country despite a Europe-wide ban. Tweakers.net postedcorrespondance from Samsung, which noted the agreement made by Apple and the Korean smartphone vendor....

AI has set its destructive sights on one of life’s greatest pleasures: visiting galleries. An Italian museum has started using AI-powered cameras tomeasure the “attraction value” of works of art. The ShareArt devices collect visual data on spectators, such as how long they look at a painting and where on the canvas their attention is focused. “Thanks to simple data elaboration, an observer’s gaze can be translated into a graphic,” Stefano Ferriani, one of the researchers behind the project, toldBloomberg CityLab....

Streaming services such as Twitch and YouTubeLiveare now a significant part of popular entertainment. These sites host millions of “live streamers” andtens of millions of daily viewers. Streamers broadcast their lives and activities — often digital gaming — to audiences whointeract and chat with them in real-time. Twitch, the dominant streaming platform, also currently houses around 150 channels offering the live broadcasting ofreal-money slot machine gambling— the most popular of these regularly receive over 100,000 views....

Yes, it is an Apple day, but that is not stopping the rest of the technology world from turning. As an aside, if you miss ourroundup of today’s news from Cupertino, shame on you. Back to topic, the next generation Xbox is coming within the next 15 months (more on that shortly), and that is spurring several of Microsoft Studio’s teams to begin development on titles for the forthcoming console. More specifically, Rare, a somewhat storied development shop, is said to be working on a ‘Mature-rated’ title....

Currently in the gaming world, if you are playing the same game by the same company, you must buy a different set of currencies when shifting between Facebook, iTunes and your different gaming consoles. But it looks as though Facebook Credits has just confirmed a friend request from Apple’s iTunes. As told to AllThingsDthe night before E3, Chris Early,Ubisoft’s VP of Digital Publishing says both Facebook and Apple have agreed to honor currency purchased on each other’s platforms for the same game on the one condition that it costs the same for the player on every platform....