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Asus Zenfone 6 Android 11 update arriving on global units

January 6, 2021
After a select few Zenfone 6 units in Taiwan got the Android 11 update last week, the firmware is now making its way to global and European variants of the device. Both come with the same 18.0610.2011.107 build number as the prior release with WW prefix indicating the global rollout while the European one bears the EU marking instead. The new firmware brings the familiar set of Android 11…
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Samsung Galaxy A72 case mold reveals design

January 6, 2021
After the success of the Galaxy A71 and its 5G counterpart, Samsung is expected to follow up with the Galaxy A72. The device already appeared in detailed renders as well as a Geekbench listing and the latest leak gives us a look at an aluminum case mold of the phone. We can…
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Rivian is closing in on more financing at massive $25 billion valuation

January 6, 2021
Electric pickup truck startup Rivian is closing in on a new financing round that would put its valuation at an impressive $25 billion, according to Bloomberg. Rivian is a money-raising machine Since coming onto the scene in a big way in late 2018 with the unveiling of its R1T and R1S electric trucks, Rivian has managed to raise an impressive amount of money from big investors. In February…
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Quick Charge Podcast: January 5, 2021

January 6, 2021
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on…
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OpenAI debuts DALL-E for generating images from text

January 6, 2021
OpenAI today debuted two multimodal AI systems that combine computer vision and NLP, like DALL-E, a system that generates images from text. For example, the photo above for this story was generated from the text prompt “an illustration of a baby daikon radish in a tutu walking a dog.” DALL-E uses a 12-billion parameter version of GPT-3, and like GPT-3 is a Transformer language model. The name…
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Concept: It’s time for Apple to let apps have multiple instances on iPhone

January 6, 2021
With iPadOS 13, Apple introduced the ability for apps to have multiple instances. In other words, you can have multiple Safari windows open or multiple notes, for example. It’s an incredibly useful feature and it turned the iPad into a much more powerful computer. We think it would turn the iPhone into a much more powerful phone, too. Over a decade ago, Palm introduced the first version of…
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