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This Afghan Photographer’s Camera is 100 Years Old

December 5, 2020
Travel vlogger Drew Binsky was wandering the streets of Kabul, Afghanistan, recently when he came across an older photographer named Haji. In this 9-minute vlog, Binsky tells the story of Haji and how he has been shooting for 65 years using a 100-year-old box camera.After meeting Haji, Binsky visited the photographer at his house and was invited to sit down in front of the ancient camera for a…
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DxOMark re-tests the iPhone 11, gets a much higher score

December 5, 2020
DxOMark recently changed its testing protocol and is now doing the fourth version of the said protocol. This means that some of the devices deemed relevant will go through the new round of testing because the overall score changes too. Not to mention the software…
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vivo V20 Pro 5G gets Android 11 update

December 5, 2020
The vivo V20 Pro 5G was announced in September with Android 10-based Funtouch OS 11, and ahead of its India debut, vivo said the smartphone will receive the Android 11 update this week. Well, vivo kept its promise as Android 11 has started rolling out for the V20 Pro 5G. The Android 11 update has build number PD2020F_EX_A_6.70.8 and requires a download of around 3.6GB. It comes with notification…
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A new Nokia phone surfaces on TENAA's website

December 5, 2020
After the FCC’s listing of two upcoming Nokia smartphones from yesterday, we now have a TENAA listing with an unnamed Nokia device. The model number is TA-1335, which is suspiciously close to the TA-1333 model number of the FCC handset. However, early findings suggest…
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Apple will replace unresponsive iPhone 11 screens for free

December 5, 2020
“A small percentage of iPhone 11” units suffer from touch issues, Apple says, and it’s swapping out their displays for free as part of a new replacement program. In its announcement, the tech giant admits that the screens on iPhone 11s manufactured between November…
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AI Weekly: In firing Timnit Gebru, Google puts commercial interests ahead of ethics

December 5, 2020
This week, Timnit Gebru, a leading AI researcher, was fired from her position on an AI ethics team at Google in what she claims was retaliation for sending an email to colleagues critical of the company’s managerial practices. Reportedly the flashpoint was a paper Gebru coauthored that questioned the wisdom of building large language models and examined who benefits from (and who’s…
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Apple launches free repair program for iPhone 11 units with touch issues

December 5, 2020
On Friday, Apple announced that it was launching a new Replacement Program for affected iPhone 11 units. iPhone 11 units produced between September 2019 and May 2020 are eligible for this issue, which will address touch screen issues that were troubling iPhone 11 owners. Apple has determined that a small percentage of iPhone 11 displays may stop responding to touch due to an issue with the display…
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