LG just unveiled a curious mid-ranger for Japans DoCoMo the Style3. This is not to be confused with the Stylo series, theres no stylus on this one. The phone will be released in June at a price of just over JPY 38,000 ($350/320).
LG Style3 in Mirror Black and Aurora White
The curious part is this – the phone is powered by a Snapdragon 845 chipset. It may be two generations old…
The LG V40 ThinQ is getting a new software update, that sports build number PKQ1.190202.011 and requires a download of around 710MB.
The new build, still based on Android 9 Pie, bumps up the Android security patch level on the V40 ThinQ to March 2020 and brings in Voice over…
Samsung rolled out a software update for the Galaxy S10 series last week which brought One UI 2.1 to the 2019 Galaxy S smartphones. Now it’s the S10 Lite that’s getting the latest version of Samsung’s custom Android UI.
The new firmware has build number…
Oppo Ace 2 5G to have 90Hz display
April 10, 2020
Oppo is expected to launch the Ace 2 5G on April 13, and yes, you read that correctly, the Reno moniker is gone from the name. The company has been heavily teasing the phone and now is has posted some more specs online.
The Oppo Ace 2 will have a display with 90Hz refresh rate and 180Hz touch sampling rate.
The image posted by Oppo on Weibo also reveals second-generation 4D vibration and 4D…
Double Eleven announced today that it has tapped Ian Ng to lead its new studio in Malaysia capital Kuala Lumpur.
Ng has over 20 years of experience working in the gaming industry, including time spent at LucasArts and Ubisoft Signapore, where he worked on the Assassin’s…
Universal Games and Digital Platforms and Zynga are collaborating to bring more Fast & Furious cars to CSR Racing 2 mobile game. This means that cars inspired by Universal Pictures’ blockbuster movie series will appear in the game through a series of special…
Sega Europe announced that it has promoted two key executives at Creative Assembly, the United Kingdom studio behind the Total War series of real-time strategy games.
Tim Heaton will assume a new role as Sega Europe’s chief studio officer. He was formerly in a bridge role between Sega Europe and Creative Assembly as executive vice president of studios and studio director respectively. He is also…
A team of Microsoft and Huazhong University researchers this week open-sourced an AI object detector — Fair Multi-Object Tracking (FairMOT) — they claim outperforms state-of-the-art models on public data sets at 30 frames per second. If productized, it could benefit…
After coronavirus, AI could be central to our new normal
April 10, 2020
When we came out of the financial crisis of 2008, cloud computing kicked into high gear and started to become a pervasive, transformational technology. The current COVID-19 crisis could provide a similar inflection point for AI applications. While the implications of AI…
Ferrum, a startup developing an AI patient safety platform to prevent medical errors, today announced that it secured $9 million in seed funding. According to CEO Pelu Tran, who’s also a technology pioneer at the World Economic Forum, the plan is to use the capital infusion to refine the company’s product as Ferrum makes engineering, sales, and marketing hires.
That could be good news for…
