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Samsung's Galaxy S20 FE is surprisingly easy to love

October 8, 2020
If there’s one thing I like more than an unabashedly good smartphone, it’s an unabashedly good cheap smartphone. Spoiler alert: The Galaxy S20 FE (or Fan Edition) is precisely that.  There are a few ways to look at a phone like this. Through one lens, it&aposs Samsung&aposs response to an ongoing pandemic and its economic effects. Through another, it&aposs the valuable connective tissue that…
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Nokia shares Android 11 roadmap w/ rollout starting this year

October 8, 2020
Google has already pushed the full Android 11 update to Pixel devices, with some OEMs already running their own beta phases. As one of the main Android One players, Nokia has now officially confirmed the Android 11 roadmap for their entire lineup. HMD Global has maintained…
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NYU’s crowdsourced questions probe extent of language model bias

October 8, 2020
In a new study, researchers at New York University (NYU) found that popular language models including Google’s BERT and ALBERT and Facebook’s RoBERTa reinforce harmful race, gender, socioeconomic, religious, age, sexual, and other stereotypes. While previous research has uncovered bias in many of the same models, this latest work suggests the biases are broader in scope than originally…
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The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies are being released on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray

October 8, 2020
It’s going to be your best look at Middle Earth yet — The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies are finally getting a 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray release, with preorders now available and shipping starting from December 1st in the US. That’s just in time for the holidays. The news was shared by none other than Samwise Gamgee himself via fansite TheOneRing, with actor Sean Astin announcing the…
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Here’s the official OnePlus 8T design [Video]

October 8, 2020
In a new video released today, OnePlus has taken the wraps off the OnePlus 8T design a full week ahead of the official launch. As leaked a few weeks ago, the OnePlus 8T’s design is a complete departure from the OnePlus 8 series. It moves away from the centered camera…
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U.S. Supreme Court divided over Google’s bid to end Oracle’s Android copyright lawsuit

October 8, 2020
(Reuters) — The U.S. Supreme Court appeared divided on Wednesday as it considered whether to protect Alphabet’s Google from a long-running lawsuit by Oracle accusing it of infringing Oracle copyrights to build the Android operating system that runs most of the world’s smartphones. The shorthanded court, down one justice following last month’s death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, heard oral…
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