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Xiaomi Mi 11-series teased with video Night mode

December 25, 2020
The Xiaomi Mi 11-series launch is just around the corner – December 28 and Xiaomi is hyping us up with a brand new feature – video Night mode. Or at least that’s what we could gather from the Google-translated text on Weibo. The post wishes us a merry Christmas accompanied by a video of a music box in the dark. The video itself is supposedly shot on the Mi 11 and highlights the…
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Scientists set a solar cell efficiency world record

December 25, 2020
A Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) research team published a paper in the journal Science earlier this month on the development of a perovskite/silicon tandem solar cell that achieved 29.15% efficiency. That’s a new world record. Solar cell efficiency record This beats the…
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HBO Max won’t play ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ w/ Dolby Atmos on Chromecast with Google TV

December 25, 2020
Ahead of its release in theaters and through streaming tomorrow, HBO Max is confirming details on how you’ll be able to watch Wonder Woman 1984 on the new Chromecast with Google TV. Unfortunately, that lacks support for Dolby Atmos. Google’s latest streaming stick is a solid option that we praised for its price and useful interface, and on top of that it also supports most streaming formats…
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Tesla launches 3 new in-car video games on its arcade platform

December 25, 2020
Tesla is launching 3 new in-car video games on its arcade platform as part of its bigger holiday software update. As we reported earlier today, Tesla is about to release a big software update during the holidays and surprisingly, no information has leaked about it. That’s changing now. A picture of the release notes has leaked on Reddit – although it’s in Norwegian and as part of the…
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An AI reporter’s favorite books of 2020

December 24, 2020
The older I get, the more I wish I could stop time so I could read more books. Books that earn my time and attention are those that promise to enrich me as a person and deepen my understanding of AI for the work I do as senior AI staff writer at VentureBeat. This year, I read more than a dozen books, some published in recent months and others in years past, like The Curse of Bigness by Tim Wu, a…
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