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OnePlus 11 and OnePlus Buds Pro 2 officially launching in February

December 19, 2022
OnePlus has today confirmed that its next major flagship smartphone – the OnePlus 11 – and new earbuds will arrive at an event in February. The “OnePlus Cloud 11 Launch Event” has been officially confirmed to happen in New Delhi, India, on February 7, 2023. The event will see the launch of the OnePlus 11 5G and the OnePlus Buds 2 Pro. OnePlus says the event will “elevate the user…
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Astera Labs raises $150M for chips that deliver AI in the cloud

December 19, 2022
Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. Astera Labs provides chips for connecting AI systems in the cloud, and today it has raised $150 million at a $3.15 billion valuation. It makes sure AI processor are fed enough data. In addition to closing the fourth round of funding, Santa Clara, California-based Astera Labs expanded its board of directors, added new…
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The beautiful intersection of simulation and AI

December 19, 2022
Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. Simulation has emerged as a critical technology for helping businesses shorten time-to-market and lowering design costs. Engineers and researchers use simulation for a variety of applications…
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What apps support the new Android 13 media player [Updated]

December 18, 2022
Android 13’s most obvious UI change is a redesign of the lockscreen and notification shade media player. However, not all music, podcasts, and audio apps have been updated to support them yet, and here’s our running list of what controls have been modernized. Original…
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Google giving Wear OS ‘low-power user interface expertise’ with KoruLab acquisition

December 18, 2022
With battery capacity inherently constrained by the size of wearables, optimizing the OS that runs on miniature devices is the approach to take. Google has acquired KoruLab to boost Wear OS on this front. When Wear OS 3 was announced in May of 2021, Google said it worked with Samsung “to optimize the lower layers of the operating system – taking advantage of low-power hardware cores to enable…
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AI art: Death of creative industry, or its savior?

December 18, 2022
Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. With the arrival of AI-generated art and the proliferation of tools like Midjourney, Stable Diffusion and DALL-E, questions have been rife in circles across the creative industry. Is this a…
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OnePlus 11 appears in official teaser

December 17, 2022
OnePlus hosted an event today in China to celebrate its ninth anniversary, and as expected, it teased the OnePlus 11 that we’ve been hearing about for some time now. The video shared by OnePlus doesn’t entirely reveal the OnePlus 11, but you can see the circular…
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Google Wallet adds whimsical Pay animations for the holidays

December 17, 2022
If you recently used Google Wallet on Android, you might have noticed a touch of holiday whimsy on the Pay screen. Normally, tapping your Android phone to an NFC reader shows the card used and a loading animation just above it. The blue circular progress indicator morphs into a checkmark with that circle then shrinking to make way for the Google Pay logo.  During the holidays, the blue…
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