A few months ago, a report from Korea claimed that LG was working on a completely unique smartphone with a new take on dual-displays. Now, the LG “Wing” phone has leaked in a video.
The folks over at managed to get their hands on a brief video showcasing this wacky upcoming smartphone that tells us quite a lot about the device.
As seen in the video below, this LG smartphone known by its…
Safari security breach can expose user browsing history, already fixed in iOS 14 beta
August 26, 2020
A new security breach found in iOS 13 and macOS Catalina can lead anyone to get the user’s navigation history in Safari. Due to an unexpected behavior, Safari Web Share API is able to access internal system files such as the browsing history database, which can be easily…
It’s easy to see why people have pegged the Oppo Watch as an Apple Watch clone. Squint your eyes and it looks like an Apple Watch. Say the name fast enough and it sounds like Apple Watch. Elements of the UI and packaging were clearly inspired by the Apple Watch, too.
That…
Michael Kanaan: The U.S. needs an AI ‘Sputnik moment’ to compete with China and Russia
August 26, 2020
In his book, “T-Minus AI,” Michael Kanaan calls attention to the need for the U.S. to wake up to AI in the same way that China and Russia have — as a matter of national importance amid global power shifts.
In 1957, Russia launched the Sputnik satellite into orbit. Kanaan writes that it was both a technological and a military feat. As Sputnik orbited Earth, suddenly the U.S. was confronted by…
Android 101: How to stop location tracking
August 26, 2020
Location tracking can be very handy — it’s convenient when an app can tell you, say, where the near restaurants or gas stations are — but it’s also a privacy issue. Do you want all your wanderings registered by Google? Are you comfortable knowing that Mark…
We’ve all been working from home since earlier in the year, and at the same time, many of us are trying to improve our cooking skills or to get some variety into our meals. If you’re into Vietnamese food, the Not Phở app, available today, is definitely a good place to…
A new analyst note from Gartner today estimates how the global smartphone market performed during the June quarter. While we already knew Apple’s iPhone shipments were likely close to flat based on the company’s reported quarterly revenue, today’s analyst note underscores how well iPhone performed relatively speaking as the global market saw a big 20% decline.
Apple had a record-breaking…
Video games have been one of the bright spots of the coronavirus pandemic. Humans are social animals, and the shelter-in-place and quarantine orders continue to keep us at home. And in most cases, this is keeping us from playing tabletop role-playing games such as Dungeons…
Motion capture — the process of recording peoples’ movements — traditionally requires equipment, cameras, and software tailored for the purpose. But researchers at the Max Planck Institute and Facebook Reality Labs claim they’ve developed a machine learning algorithm…
LinkedIn open-sources toolkit to measure AI model fairness
August 26, 2020
LinkedIn today released the LinkedIn Fairness Toolkit (LiFT), an open source software library designed to enable the measurement of fairness in AI and machine learning workflows. The company says LiFT can be deployed during training and scoring to measure biases in training data sets, and to evaluate notions of fairness for models while detecting differences in their performance across…
