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Equifax will pay $640 million for Kount’s AI-driven identity and fraud prevention tools

January 9, 2021
Equifax announced today that it would pay $640 million to acquire Kount, a company that uses artificial intelligence to drive its fraud prevention and digital identity services. In a press release, Equifax executives said the deal would allow the company to further expand into these markets. Kount uses AI to analyze 32 billion transactions across 17 billion devices. As the system builds its…
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ArcX's wearable joystick is a Bluetooth remote for your phone

January 9, 2021
If you’re running, the last thing you want to do is break your stride to fiddle with your phone or watch for whatever reason. Answering calls, changing tracks, marking lap times, all of it distracts you from the pursuit of a better time when you’re striking the sidewalk.
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Latest Apple Arcade games for iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, Apple TV [Oceanhorn: Chronos Dungeon]

January 9, 2021
Apple Arcadelaunched with close to 100 titles and the service is seeing new games added regularly. Follow along with our guide on the latest from Apple’s gaming service. New for January 8: Oceanhorn: Chronos Dungeon. You can learn more about and downloadall the new games by heading to the Arcade tab in the App Store, then swipe down to the very bottom and tap “See All Games.” The…
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Twitch will refresh the PogChamp emote image every 24 hours

January 9, 2021
A couple of days after Twitch yanked one of its oldest and most popular emotes, PogChamp is back with a twist. For the foreseeable future, Twitch will change the image every 24 hours.  Soon after PogChamp vanished from the platform, Sean “Day9″ Plott, a well-known…
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Feature Request: Apple should evolve iPhone calls with option for FaceTime Audio default

January 9, 2021
2021 is here and 5G is coming online around the world. US carriers have decent coverage nationwide with mid and Sub-6GHz spectrum 5G but issues like call quality and reception are still a problem even with the latest-gen cellular network. I think it’s time for Apple to make its first-party FaceTime Audio calls an option to be the default on iPhone. We’ve seen Apple expand and evolve the ways…
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Android 12 wish list: Features we would love to see [Video]

January 9, 2021
Android 12 may not be here in a full release capacity until the latter half of 2021, but that hasn’t stopped us from dreaming up a wish list of things we really hope to see in the next OS build. There were quite a few people disappointed with Android 11, which felt a…
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Google Meet suffered partial outage this morning w/ 502 error, since fixed

January 9, 2021
As the pandemic continues to rage on, video conferencing is still a crucial tool. Unfortunately for some Google Meet users, the service is suffering a partial outage this morning that, thankfully, doesn’t seem to break video calls for everyone but is returning a 502 error. Update: Shortly after publication, Google marked the issue as fixed. If you went to meet.google.com today, a 502 error may…
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