You may not have heard of Blloc, but the Berlin-based company is working on the very impressive Ratio — a launcher aimed at fundamentally changing the way you see and use your smartphone.
We, unfortunately, didn’t get any hands-on time with the minimal Blloc Zero 18 smartphone, which came with the first build of an entirely monochrome interface pre-installed.
Despite the limited availability…
While Google I/O is no longer happening this year, many of the company’s planned announcements, especially for developers, are still going forward as intended. Today, Flutter, Google’s massively cross-platform app development framework, is launching its first stable…
In March, exclusively revealed Google’s plans for a new Chromecast Ultra based on Android TV, and we’ve since heard rumors about a possible rebrand of the OS to “Google TV.” A report today suggests that one aspect of this upcoming streaming dongle will be an Android…
Apple is releasing the fourth developer beta of iOS 13.5 today, following last week’s release of beta 3. iOS 13.5 includes improvements to the FaceTime app, Face ID, and the groundwork for Apple and Google’s Exposure Notification API. [Update: Now available]
In case you missed it last week, Apple is referring to this iOS release as iOS 13.5, following two developer beta releases of iOS…
Facebook’s AI detects gender bias in text
May 6, 2020
In a technical paper published this week, Facebook researchers describe a framework that decomposes gender bias in text along several dimensions, which they used to annotate data sets and evaluate gender bias classifiers. If the experimental results are any indication, the…
After its debut at CES and a slight delay, the latest Android TV dongle is here. TiVo’s Stream 4K is set to offer a unique streaming experience in your living room, and for a limited time, the device is super affordable.
First things first, let’s talk hardware. The…
Despite previews starting a few months before I/O, Google likes to save major Android announcements for a big stage. The 2020 developer conference was canceled due to COVID-19 and the company is instead turning to a livestream — whimsically named Android 11: the Beta Launch Show — next month to announce what’s new.
Based on plans set in February, which was already a month ahead of…
Back in March, 9to5Google reported that Google’s next streaming device will run Android TV and thus offer a more traditional user experience that’s closer in line with Roku and Amazon Fire TV than the company’s previous Chromecast efforts. Now, Protocol is…
Google has been pushing Android TV as a way for users to stay both entertained informed during the coronavirus pandemic. Now, Google has rolled out a new “stay home and stay informed” notification for Android TV users to help them find news on the…
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“Now that we’re all in this unique situation with COVID-19, do we have an opportunity to do something dramatically different together?” asked Jennifer Bonine, co-founder and CEO of PinkLion.AI, at GamesBeat 2020. “What are some of the new strategies we’re going to leverage in our companies to change the way we’ve been doing things and re-architect how we look…
