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Samsung Galaxy S21 family won't have a charger or earphones in the box, certification confirms

December 8, 2020
Remember when Apple removed the 3.5mm headphone jack and a lot of Android phone makers mocked it for the decision, only to follow suit within a few years, Samsung included? Well, here we go again. It’s already been rumored that Samsung was thinking about shipping the upcoming Galaxy S21, Galaxy S21+, and Galaxy S21 Ultra without a charger or earphones in the box, but when we heard this back…
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T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S20 series getting Android 11

December 8, 2020
Following last week’s Android 11 update for the Verizon Samsung Galaxy S20 units (minus the S20 FE), T-Mobile has now begun pushing the update for its users too. The new update also brings Samsung’s OneUI 3.0 (check out the new additions here) and weighs in at 2GB in…
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LG plans to outsource more of its low-end and mid-range phones

December 8, 2020
LG is shaking things up in its mobile division once more. It confirmed to Reuters it will increase outsourcing of its low- and mid-range smartphones. Third-party companies will design and build more of the devices, and LG will slap its label on the phones. The company still plans to make its own high-end devices. Increased outsourcing will free up more in-house research and production resources to…
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NVIDIA found a way to train AI with very little data

December 8, 2020
NVIDIA has developed a new approach for training generative adversarial networks (GAN) that could one day make them suitable for a greater variety of tasks. Before getting into NVIDIA’s work, it helps to know a bit about how GANs work. Every GAN consists of two competing…
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Google Messages starts rolling out end-to-end encryption for some beta users

December 8, 2020
Last month, Google announced that it would fulfill a long-time feature request in its RCS client. End-to-end encryption in Google Messages is now rolling out for some beta users. In mid-November, Google announced the security feature alongside the global availability of its direct RCS solution. E2EE means that the contents of a chat cannot be read by anybody as its sent from sender to…
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Third report adds weight to iPhone getting 10x optical zoom

December 8, 2020
Back in July, we heard reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo predict that iPhone would gain periscope lenses as soon as 2022. A report followed in November saying the same. As we’re about to close out 2020, we’ve got a third report corroborating the tech that could allow…
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Apple makes iOS 14.2.1 available for HomePod and HomePod mini

December 8, 2020
After Apple released iOS 14.2.1 for just the iPhone 12 lineup at the end of November and before the iOS 14.3 arrives to the public with new features, HomePod and HomePod mini are getting bug fixes and performance improvements with their own build of iOS 14.2.1 today. The latest iOS 14.2.1 release is only for HomePod and HomePod mini. Notably, when Apple pushed the update on November 19, it was…
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