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Spotify redesigns its Android TV app w/ new UI

April 23, 2020
The best speakers in your home are often the ones attached to your TV and now, Spotify is giving its Android TV app a fresh coat of paint to make it easier to play your music on the big screen. Rolling out to Android TV users this week, Spotify has completely redesigned its Android TV app. This redesign includes background images based on the bands and albums you listen to, as well as using a…
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Google releases Android 11 DP3 ahead of first Android Beta

April 23, 2020
With two releases and subsequent patches, development on the next major version of Google’s mobile operating system is well underway. Android 11 DP3 is rolling out today for the latest Pixel devices. Android 11 DP3 is another “incremental update” as Google finalizes…
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DeepMind’s AI studies game players to exploit weaknesses in their strategies

April 23, 2020
In a paper published on the preprint server Arxiv.org, scientists at Alphabet’s DeepMind propose a new framework that learns an approximate best response to players within games of many kinds. They claim that it achieves consistently high performance against “worst-case opponents” — that is, players who aren’t good, yet at least play by the rules and actually complete the game — in…
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Boston Dynamics open-sources health care robotics toolkit for telemedicine, vitals inspection, and disinfection

April 23, 2020
As a direct response to the coronavirus pandemic, Boston Dynamics today open-sourced its health care robotics toolkit on GitHub. The company hopes that existing Boston Dynamics customers and other mobile robot providers can use the toolkit, which includes documentation and CAD files of enclosures and mounts, to help health care workers and essential personnel and ultimately save lives. The mobile…
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Randori raises $20 million to spot cyberattacks with AI

April 23, 2020
Cybersecurity startup Randori today announced that it secured $20 million in equity financing, bringing the startup’s total raised to $29.75 million. The infusion of capital comes after a year during which attacks on internet of things devices tripled, and during which the…
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Sprint Galaxy S20 buyers get access to T-Mobile’s nationwide 5G network soon

April 23, 2020
Samsung’s Galaxy S20 series is the first collection of widely available 5G devices on the market in the United States and carriers are excited to bring that to customers. While we still don’t advise buying a phone just for 5G, there are perks. This month, Sprint users who bought a Galaxy S20 are getting access to T-Mobile’s 5G network. T-Mobile was the first to launch a nationwide 5G…
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