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Apple will let Siri open third-party iOS apps by default

October 2, 2019
Apple’s iOS operating system has increased its included collection of apps over the years, growing from 17 in 2007 to just under 40 in 2019 — all while guaranteeing that everything included is the iPhone’s or iPad’s “default” app for its own functionality. Now Apple is set to loosen the latter restriction, Bloomberg reports, as the voice assistant Siri will be able to open certain…
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Rune raises $2 million to use AI to find friends for mobile gamers

October 2, 2019
Rune has raised $2 million in funding in its effort to use artificial intelligence to help find friends for mobile gamers. Rune is a Y Combinator accelerator grad, and it was built by two doctoral students who dropped out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Sanjay Guruprasad and Bjarke Felbo. They started their company by asking a simple question: Can AI find you friends? Users have…
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Apples Deep Fusion photography arrives with iOS 13.2 Beta

October 2, 2019
During Apple’s keynote last month where it announced the iPhone 11 lineup, the company also unveiled new camera technology called “Deep Fusion” that takes four frames before you hit the shutter, four more once you do, and one long exposure shot. The 8-core Neural engine will select the best frames and create a high-quality HDR photo. The resulting images are highly detailed, sharper, and more…
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Call of Duty: Mobile now available for Android

October 1, 2019
In the past few years, first person shooting games have come a long way and the battle royale genre has risen in popularity with games like Fortnite and PUBG. Even smartphone makes have created an entire new genre of smartphones focused on the mobile gamer like Asus ROG II, the Razer Phone 2, and the Black Shark 2 Pro. Call of Duty, one of the most popular FPS (First person shooter) franchises has…
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