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Stadia 3.9 prepares touchscreen gameplay, ‘Player notes,’ Android TV app, more

The latest update to the Stadia app for Android readies a brand new way to play games from your touchscreen, the ability to makes notes about friends, and the long-awaited Android TV app. About APK Insight: In this “APK Insight” post, we’ve decompiled the latest version of an application that Google uploaded to the Play Store. When we decompile these files (called APKs, in the case of…
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Nikon expects profitability and plans to release more Z mount lenses by 2022

Nikon’s Sendai factory. It’s been a rough few years for Nikon, but there is light at the end of the tunnel. Or, so we’re being led to believe based on an interview Nikon’s CFO Muneaki Tokunari gave to Nikkei, wherein he says he expects Nikon to once again reach profitability by the end of its 2022 fiscal year. In the interview (behind a partial paywall), Tokunari reiterates what Nikon…
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Nintendo’s Super Switch makes sense for everyone involved

Nintendo is preparing to release a Super Switch this holiday, according to original reporting from the Nate the Hate podcast on YouTube. This revision will likely feature a new system-on-a-chip (SOC) that will enable the system to bring in extra performance, improved…
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191 of the World’s Earliest Photos by Henry Fox Talbot Are Up for Sale

A rare collection of some of the world’s earliest photographs is coming up for sale. Sotheby’s will be selling nearly 200 photos by 19th-century photography pioneer William Henry Fox Talbot at auction in New York next month. The sale, titled “50 Masterworks to Celebrate 50 Years of Sotheby’s Photographs,” celebrates the auction house’s Golden Jubilee and will be held in both New York…
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NASA is Gearing Up to Fly a Camera Drone Above Mars

NASA is targetting early April for the first flight of its Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, a drone that will mark the organization’s first attempt at a powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet where it will hover over the surface and capture aerial images.
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Voice-Activated Backpack Aids the Visually Impaired with AI Cameras

Artificial intelligence developer Jagadish K. Mahendran and his team at the University of Georgia have designed an AI-powered, voice-activated, camera system that can help the visually impaired navigate common challenges such as traffic signs, hanging obstacles, and crosswalks. The system is all housed within a small backpack that contains most of the computing unit, which in this case was a…
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