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iPhone 12 Diary: First impressions of my first giant phone

November 13, 2020
I don’t want the headline to imply that I will buy future giant iPhones — the jury is very much out on whether I even keep this one — but it really does feel like I’m trying a whole new product category here. In the old Apple days, there were small screens, aka iPhones; medium screens, aka iPads; and big screens, aka Macs. But things are not so simple these days… I own an iPad with a…
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Android gains support for hardware-accelerated PyTorch inference

November 13, 2020
Google’s Android team today unveiled a prototype feature that allows developers to use hardware-accelerated inference with Facebook’s PyTorch machine learning framework, enabling more developers to leverage the Android Neural Network API’s (NNAPI) ability to run computationally-intensive AI models on-device. Google says that with this partnership between the Android team and Facebook…
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How and Why You Should Take Photos in Bad Weather

November 13, 2020
Spanish-American Photographer and YouTuber Aows has published this 9.5-minute video that discusses a topic most photographers avoid: taking photos in bad weather conditions. Aows explains how he does it and why he thinks it’s worth it. Aows says he has experimented with…
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Pick up Razer peripherals while they’re on deep discount at Amazon

November 13, 2020
If you have a PC gamer in your life and are stuck on the best gift to get them for the holidays, Razer has a sale that could make things easier for you. A number of solid Razer gaming mice and keyboards are on sale at Amazon right now — including the BlackWidow Elite keyboard, which is down to only $85. This mechanical keyboard regularly hovers around $130, and now it’s at an even better price…
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Apple stops signing iOS 14.1, blocking downgrades from iOS 14.2

November 13, 2020
As Apple released iOS 14.2 to the public last week, the company today stopped signing iOS 14.1 and iPadOS 14.1. That means users who have updated their devices to iOS 14.2 can no longer downgrade to iOS 14.1. iOS 14.1 was introduced in October with bug fixes and also initial…
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Stadia for Android and iOS gains notifications for new games and features

November 13, 2020
Last month, the Stadia app gained the ability to notify you about important things like game and party invites. Starting today, Stadia for Android and iOS now offers notifications for new game releases and new Stadia features. Over the course of the past two weeks, Stadia has been rapidly expanding its feature set with things like family sharing, profile pages, and the long-awaited messaging…
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