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Microsoft's Seeing AI app helps the blind in five more languages

December 3, 2019
Microsoft’s Seeing AI has been helpful for describing objects and text to the blind, but there’s been a key problem: it has only been available in English, making it a non-starter if you don’t speak the language. That won’t be a problem for some people from now on. Microsoft has updated the iOS-only app with support for Dutch, French, German, Japanese and Spanish, letting…
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Galaxy S10’s Android 10 update rolls out to several more markets

December 3, 2019
Samsung has been rolling out its Android 10 update for the Galaxy S10 series for just a week or so at this point but it’s already expanding rapidly. As of today, Samsung is rolling out the Android 10 update in 8 different markets. Unfortunately, US users still haven’t picked up Android 10 on their devices just yet, but Samsung is clearly ramping things up.
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Amazon debuts AWS Inf1, an AI inference instance

December 3, 2019
Amazon Web Services today debuted Inf1, an instance that powers AI inference in the cloud that CEO Andy Jassy calls the lowest cost inference offering available in the cloud. “…it will have lower latency, it will have 3 times higher throughput, and up to 40% lower cost…
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Samsung Galaxy Fold 2 to cost no more than $1,000, adopt a clamshell design

December 3, 2019
According to a new report coming from , Samsung’s upcoming Fold 2 will be a considerably cheaper than the current model due to several factors including a significant change in the design. Sources familiar with the matter say that the Fold 2 will adopt the clamshell design as the reborn Motorola Razr. The smaller area of the foldable screen combined with the further drop in cost of…
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Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite support page hints at imminent launch

December 3, 2019
Samsung’s Galaxy S10 Lite is coming quite soon, as evidenced by the support page Samsung put up on its French website. The page is for the SM-G770F/DS model, which is rumored to be the Galaxy S10 Lite. We saw it on an FCC page and have heard that it will offer a 4,500mAh battery with 45W fast charging, a Snapdragon 855 chip to go along with 8GB of RAM. Camera-wise the Galaxy S10 Lite will…
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