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Rune raises $2 million to use AI to find friends for mobile gamers

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

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

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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Google Voice dark theme rolling out on Android

Google Voice is the latest first-party app to adopt a dark theme today. Following Gmail last month, the VOIP client is getting a standard night-friendly look on Android. We’ve been tracking development of a dark theme in Google Voice since early August. Like other apps…
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Huawei Mate 30 Pro can no longer install Google apps, as researcher exposes backdoor

Immediately after the launch of the Huawei Mate 30 Pro, we showed how easy it was to install Google apps on the device, despite the phone not being legally allowed to have them in the first place. The app responsible for this, LZPlay, has now been taken down, following the release of a detailed explanation of the security backdoor used to install Google apps on the Huawei Mate 30 Pro. For those…
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