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Sideload Helper lets you continue using a Pebble watch with an Android smartphone

Pebble may have shut down in December 2016, but the original smartwatches live on courtesy of a new app from the Rebble community called Sideload Helper that lets you open Pebble files on modern Android smartphones and sideload them for usage and installation on the basic wearable. Sideload Helper was developed by Alice Grey and Lavender Glaab from the Rebble project and helps prolong the…
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Lawnchair 11 arrives in Alpha with Android 11 support

After a complete from-the-ground-up rebuild, Lawnchair 11 has arrived in Alpha with support for that latest Android 11 release. Lawnchair Launcher is one of the most popular home screen replacements for a number of reasons, one of those being just how clean it is. The…
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Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra goes official w/ 120x zoom, 1.1-inch mini rear display, more

The Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra has now officially been unveiled, with the smartphone taking the Mi 11 DNA and adding in some seriously powerful added internals and camera prowess. So think of the Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra as just the standard Mi 11 1 — which is a great smartphone in its own right — with a few tweaks. It uses the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 chipset, 12GB of RAM, and 256GB of UFS 3.1 storage.
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New Android spyware designed to look like a system update, but was never in the Play Store

While Android is a far more secure operating system than a lot of people give it credit for, malware and spyware can still appear from time to time. Recently, a security firm uncovered a worrisome bit of spyware on Android that disguises itself as a system update. Zimperium security firm reported last week on a new piece of spyware designed for Android that can steal data without a user’s…
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Field review: Sigma 28-70mm F2.8 DG DN

Introduction 85% Overall score Jump to conclusion The Sigma 28-70mm F2.8 DG DN Contemporary lens is a very compact, lightweight standard zoom lens for full-frame and APS-C mirrorless cameras. It boasts a constant F2.8 maximum aperture across its zoom…
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MIT study finds ‘systematic’ labeling errors in popular AI benchmark datasets

Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. The field of AI and machine learning is arguably built on the shoulders of a few hundred papers, many of which draw conclusions using data from a subset of public datasets. Large, labeled corpora have been critical to the success of AI in domains ranging from image classification to audio classification.
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