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Google expands AI-powered flood alerts to all of India

September 1, 2020
In late 2018, in collaboration with the Central Water Commission of India, Israel Institute of Technology, and Bar-Ilan University, Google piloted a flood-predicting model in portions of Patna, India as a part of its Flood Forecasting Initiative. The company and its partners claimed the model could predict riverine floods — that is, floods from overrun riverbanks — with 75% accuracy during…
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16 Inspiring Wildlife Photos in the WPY 2020 Contest

September 1, 2020
The prestigious annual Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition put on by London’s Natural History Museum has released a collection of Highly Commended entries submitted to this year’s contest. While the grand prize and category winners will be announced on October…
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Nvidia Broadcast brings RTX-powered AI to livestreaming video

September 1, 2020
Nvidia is improving the suite of features it offers to livestreamers with its GeForce RTX graphics cards. The company introduced a revamped Nvidia Broadcast tool today as part of the rollout of its next-generation RTX 3000-series GPUs. This software uses RTX-accelerated artificial intelligence to help broadcasters improve their audio and video. Nvidia was already testing some of these features…
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Pokemon Go ending support for Android Lollipop devices from October

September 1, 2020
Pokemon Go is set to end support for older Android device from October, meaning that if you’re hanging on to an older handset, now is the time to upgrade. Considering that devices running Android Lollipop will likely have shipped from 2014 to 2015, it’s more impressive that people might still be running a device with the old OS running intact. However, we understand that it’s not always easy…
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Android 11 DP4 rolling out now for OnePlus 8 and 8 Pro

September 1, 2020
While we have already spent some time with what was supposed to be the final Android 11 Developer Preview for the OnePlus 8 series, an extra DP4 has now dropped with some notable tweaks and performance boosts. Ahead of the final release of OxygenOS 11 in the coming weeks…
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Ten years ago, Epic helped to legitimize iOS as a gaming platform with a small demo

September 1, 2020
On September 1st, 2010, Epic Games released its Citadel tech demo in the Apple App Store. It was a boring thing to actually play — you simply walked around a medieval town in first-person perspective, taking in the sights with no objectives — but this calm debut marked a big moment for iOS, the App Store, and Epic Games. It proved that developers could fit gigantic, richly detailed set pieces…
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