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New Dictation app brings advanced offline transcription capabilities to iPhone and iPad

November 7, 2019
With the introduction of iOS 13.2, Apple added new features to its speech recognition APIs that allow third-party developers to perform on-device speech recognition, even when the device is offline. Today, Blueshift is releasing its brand new Dictation app that takes advantage of this new functionality. Most transcription services send the user’s speech to a cloud service to be processed. The…
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iPhone 11 Pro scores 117 in DXOMark camera quality test, ranked in third place

November 7, 2019
The reliability of DXOMark’s testing is often questioned and argued about. Camera quality is subjective, etcetera etcetera. With that disclaimer out of the way, the publication today released its test results for the iPhone 11 Pro Max. Apple’s 2019 flagship scored 117 on its smartphone camera test, ranking third behind the Huawei Mate 30 Pro and the Xiaomi Mic CC9 Pro Premium. The iPhone 11…
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Motorola Moto G8 pops up in promotional video

November 7, 2019
Towards the end of last month, Motorola released two Moto G8 variants with the G8 Plus and G8 Play and now it seems the middle version is around the corner. Thanks to a leaked promotional video posted by , we get our first look at the vanilla Moto G8 which looks quite…
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ZTE unveils Blade A7 Prime and Blade 10 Prime

November 7, 2019
ZTE hasn’t released any new phones in the US recently but today the company announced the new Blade A7 Prime and Blade 10 Prime. Both phones pack entry level specs and attractive prices catering to those on a budget or looking for a secondary device. ZTE has partnered with pre-paid carrier Visible which will offer both new handsets in its portfolio. Blade A7 Prime The more affordable Blade A7…
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Google launches App Defense Alliance to help catch bad Android apps

November 7, 2019
Google’s Play Store is home to millions of useful apps, but isn’t always safe from software that hosts malware and obnoxious adware. Recently, the company has been attempting to clean up the Play Store and use it to push security updates. Untrustworthy app developers have found themselves in Google’s cross hairs, with major developers being banned from the store due to ad…
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