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YouTube rolls out new video page with minimized comments, large thumbnails on Android, iOS

May 8, 2020
Many changes to YouTube are focused on getting you to watch and engage with more content. YouTube for Android and iOS now has a new video page that elevates, but shrinks comments and introduces large video thumbnails. Instead of comments requiring you to scroll to the very bottom, feedback is now underneath the channel bar with subscribe button/notification options. This section features a count…
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Some OnePlus users find swapped left/right audio channels with wired headphones

May 8, 2020
With the headphone jack dead, wired audio is a little less reliable than it once was. Now, some OnePlus users are reporting a strange issue that swaps the left and right audio channels when wired headphones are hooked up. Highlighted by , user reports from OnePlus’ forums, Reddit, and XDA’s forums that many OnePlus devices are seeing an issue that reverses the audio channels of wired…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Vector Institute’s AI makes predictions about random events like market trades

May 7, 2020
A paper coauthored by researchers at the University of Toronto’s Vector Institute and Google describes an AI technique tailored to health, science, and finance predictions called neural stochastic differential equations (SDEs). It enables the modeling of random events that might affect a person, price, or the state of a complex system — a system comprised of many parts that might interact…
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GamingNews

Will your TV handle Xbox Series X games that run at 120 fps?

May 7, 2020
One of the tidbits revealed during the first Xbox 20/20 event today is that Dirt 5 supports 120 frames per second on Xbox Series X. Publisher Codemasters’ racing game is coming in October, but it supports Smart Delivery. So if you get it for Xbox One, you’ll get the Xbox…
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Xbox 20/20: Every Xbox Series X game Microsoft showed during gameplay reveal

May 7, 2020
Microsoft showed off gameplay for its upcoming Xbox Series X console during today’s Inside Xbox stream. The event focused on third-party games, including heavy-hitters like Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla and EA’s Madden 21. You can find info about every title highlighted during the show below, along with the trailers that Microsoft showed for each one during the event. May of these…
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