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Google’s ‘Look to Speak’ Android app uses a phone’s front camera for eye gaze tracking, TTS

December 8, 2020
“Look to Speak” is a new experimental app from Google that helps those with speech and motor impairments communicate through eye gaze technology.  The app lets people look left and right — relative to a phone placed directly in front of them — to select from a list of phrases, which can be customized. There are two columns of text, with selections then spoken aloud.  Look to Speak…
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Europe’s funding for deep tech like AI and VR fell 13% in 2020

December 8, 2020
As European startups have tried to carve out a competitive edge against the U.S. and China, there has been a big push to promote so-called “deep tech.” And in recent years, there had indeed been a surge in European startups that were developing products based on scientific breakthroughs. But it looks like the pandemic has put a dent in that momentum, at least for now. According to the latest…
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11 Amazing Photos from the Northern Lights Photographer of the Year

December 8, 2020
Travel and photography blog Capture the Atlas has released the images from its third annual Northern Lights Photographer of the Year – a compilation of 25 of the best photos highlighting the aurora borealis/australis from around the world. Similar to its process for highlighting photographers of the Milky Way, Capture the Atlas doesn’t have any single winner, runners up, or special prizes for…
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Oppo Find X3 Pro leak reveals most important details

December 8, 2020
Oppo has already announced that its next flagship smartphone, coming out in the first three months of 2021, will be powered by the newly unveiled Snapdragon 888 chipset, but today a new leak gives us a few more details about the device. The Find X3 Pro, which is what we…
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T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S20 series getting Android 11

December 8, 2020
Following last week’s Android 11 update for the Verizon Samsung Galaxy S20 units (minus the S20 FE), T-Mobile has now begun pushing the update for its users too. The new update also brings Samsung’s OneUI 3.0 (check out the new additions here) and weighs in at 2GB in size. Galaxy S20 series Android 11 update for T-Mobile T-Mo S20, S20+ and S20 Ultra users can simply got to their system…
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