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LG isn't giving up on smartphones

January 16, 2021
A recent report from Korean publication The Elec announced a dramatic development in tow for next week, namely that LG would announce its exit from the smartphone market. LG begs to differ, however. According to the company’s global communicator for consumer tech, Ken Hong, all of this is “completely false and without merit. I won’t even justify that rumor with a…
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Sony seeding stable Android 11 to Xperia 1 and Xperia 5 units

January 16, 2021
Last month Sony brought Android 11 to its Xperia 1 II and now the update has made its way to the 2019 Sony flagships – the Xperia 1 and Xperia 5. The new firmware is already seeding in Russia and South East Asia with the same 55.2.A.0.630 build number for both units and…
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Xiaomi denies any ties to the Chinese military in response to being blacklisted by the US

January 16, 2021
Yesterday the US government designated Xiaomi a “Communist Chinese military company”, putting it on a blacklist that means US companies and investors are going to be prohibited from investing in Xiaomi (and those who already have are to divest by November of this year). This, mind you, is not the same ‘blacklisting’ that destroyed Huawei’s smartphone market share…
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DefenseNews

French Army orders 364 Serval armored vehicles

January 16, 2021
PARIS — The French Army is expected to receive 108 Serval armored vehicles in 2022 as part of an order from manufacturers Nexter and Texelis totaling 364. The contract was finalized through the DGA procurement agency on Dec. 23 but was not announced until Jan. 15. …
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Trump never appointed a National Park Service director. Here’s what Biden needs to do for the NPS

January 16, 2021
The Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks, a group composed of more than 1,800 current, retired, and former employees of the National Park Service (NPS), is calling on President-elect Joe Biden’s administration to fight the climate crisis and protect national parks and public lands.  And the Coalition calls for an NPS director, because under the Trump administration, for the first…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Researchers propose using the game Overcooked to benchmark collaborative AI systems

January 16, 2021
Deep reinforcement learning systems are among the most capable in AI, particularly in the robotics domain. However, in the real world, these systems encounter a number of situations and behaviors to which they weren’t exposed during development. In a step toward systems that can collaborate with humans in order to help them accomplish their goals, researchers at Microsoft, the University of…
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