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Twitter opens up anti-troll feature to all iOS app users [U]

August 13, 2020
Twitter tested an anti-troll feature earlier in the year, allowing select users to choose who is able to reply to their tweets. The experiment was clearly a success, as the latest version of the iOS app makes the feature available to all … It turns out Twitter made a mistake and is not rolling out the feature widely yet. The company told that it accidentally published the wrong release…
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Kuo: Quality problem with iPhone 12 camera lenses [U: Supplier denies]

August 13, 2020
Smartphone-use lens modules Genius Electronic Optical (GSEO) has maintained its production is still running without issues, and demand from its brand handset clients remains normal. Noted Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is reporting that a quality problem has emerged during testing of iPhone 12 camera lenses from one of Apple’s suppliers. Coatings on the wide-angle lenses were found to have cracked…
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Apple releases iOS 13.6.1 and iPadOS 13.6.1 for all users

August 13, 2020
Apple has just released iOS 13.6.1 and iPadOS 13.6.1 for all users, just one month after the release of iOS 13.6. The update fixes some known issues related to the Exposure Notifications and another one that could make the displays exhibit a green tint. iOS 13.6 was released in July with Car Key, a digital key that will work for locking, unlocking, and starting supported vehicles. The update…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Research shows natural language benchmarks don’t measure AI models’ general knowledge well

August 13, 2020
Open-domain question-answering models — models theoretically capable of responding to novel questions with novel answers — often simply memorize answers found in the data on which they’re trained, depending on the data set. That’s the assertion of a team of researchers affiliated with Facebook and the University College London, who in a preprint paper present evidence that 60%-70% of…
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