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Honor 10 Lite gets EMUI 9.1 in India

August 17, 2019
The Honor 10 Lite received the EMUI 9.1 update in China back in June, and the rollout of this update has now expanded to India. Honor 10 Lite EMUI 9.1 brings in GPU Turbo 3.0, which improves the gaming experience and reduces the power consumption by 10%. The new firmware also switches the file system on the Honor 10 Lite to EROFS which promises a 20% increase in random read speed and saving of…
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IKEA creates a business unit devoted to smart home tech

August 17, 2019
It’s clear by now that IKEA is serious about smart home tech between its Sonos-powered speakers and connected lights, but the home furniture giant wants to formalize that commitment. It just established a full-fledged Home Smart business unit that, as you might guess, will be dedicated to smart home products. It’s the “biggest” new unit since the Children’s IKEA…
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Hitting the Books: How big tech might monopolize AI

August 17, 2019
Welcome to Hitting the Books. With less than one in five Americans reading just for fun these days, we’ve done the hard work for you by scouring the internet for the most interesting, thought provoking books on science and technology we can find and delivering an…
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Developers criticize Apple’s changes to location permissions in iOS 13 as ‘anti-competitive’

August 17, 2019
iOS 13 introduces a number of changes for how developers are able to use user locations. Now, a group of app developers have joined forces to call the changes anti-competitive, and are taking their complaints directly to Tim Cook. As detailed in a new report from , developers say that the new location changes in iOS 13 will hurt their businesses. They also accuse Apple of…
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GamingNews

If you’ve bought a Nintendo Switch since July 17th, you might be able to upgrade for free

August 16, 2019
Nintendo made a lightly updated version of the original Switch console that offers improvements like better battery life. But if you bought the old model recently, you might not be out of luck. The company is offering upgrades to the newer model for customers who bought the old version from July 17th going forward (when Nintendo announced the new model), according to a report from Polygon, which…
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