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Motorola One Zoom and Moto Z4 to get Android 10 soon

November 6, 2019

Motorola currently has two phones with Snapdragon 675 chipset – the One Zoom with a huge rectangle on the back and the Moto Z4 that still works with Moto Mods. Both devices arrived with Android Pie out of the box, but now they appeared at the Wi-Fi Alliance website with Android 10, revealing that an OS update is incoming. Motorola One Zoom Moto Z4 The Motorola One Zoom has the model…

'Minecraft Earth' early access comes to the UK and 8 other countries

November 6, 2019

Minecraft Earth‘s early access release is finally rolling out to countries around the world, although it’s not necessarily available where you might expect it. Mojang and Microsoft have confirmed that the augmented reality game is now available on Android and…

Twitter is rolling out a fix for the 'auto-scrolling' bug on iOS

November 6, 2019

Has the Twitter timeline been extra jumpy on your iPhone or iPad? Yesterday Twitter acknowledged the “frustrating” issue, and now an update to address it is rolling out via the App Store. It’s unclear if it was supposed to be a seamless addition of new…

Twitter rolling out fix for buggy auto-refresh timeline behavior on iOS

November 6, 2019

Over the weekend, Twitter for iPhone users started experiencing buggy auto-refresh behavior following an app update. Essentially, the timeline would refresh randomly, causing people to lose track of what they were reading. Now, Twitter says that it is rolling out a fix for the problem. As we speculated yesterday, the…

Chrome on Android rolling out new long press menu for links, images

November 5, 2019

Chrome 78 rolled out last month and was a relatively quiet release for Android. A server-side update for the browser today introduces a new long press menu that provides previews alongside actions for links and images. The old menu that popped up after long pressing…

An Apple-Valve AR headset deal makes sense given iOS 13’s StarBoard

November 5, 2019

Apple rumors are perennially popular for two major reasons: First, the company’s actual announcements are so few and far between that only “what’s next?” speculation keeps its fans excited year-round. Second, the company is famously iterative, rarely entering a new…

AI & Robotics News

Researchers propose descriptors to prevent AI system component mismatches

November 5, 2019

AI holds enormous promise for the public sector — at least theoretically. But in practice, integrating AI components into public sector apps is limited by the fragility of those components and by mismatches among them. For example, if a machine learning model is trained on data that’s different from data in an operational environment, the component’s performance will be dramatically…

Android Auto standalone app now available for Android 10 users

November 5, 2019

Google recently integrated Android Auto with the Android 10 operating system, removing the need for a separate app. But this meant that Android 10 users who own a car with a non-compatible head unit would no longer be able to use Android Auto just on their phone, which was…

What’s new in iOS 13.3 developer beta 1?

November 5, 2019

Apple today released the first developer beta of iOS 13.3, as well as iPadOS 13.3, tvOS 13.3, and watchOS 6.1.1. Read on as we roundup all of the changes in these latest updates. One of the biggest issues in iOS 13.2 is RAM…

Apple releasing first developer beta of iOS 13.3 today [U: Now available]

November 5, 2019

Update: The first developer betas of iOS 13.3, iPadOS 13.3, watchOS 6.1.1, and tvOS 13.3 are now available. Apple today will release the first beta of iOS 13.3 to developers. This comes after the release of iOS 13.2 to the public last week. iPadOS 13.3 will also be available today, as will the first developer beta of watchOS 6.1.1. iOS 13.2 included the…