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How to record your screen on iPhone and iPad

April 18, 2020
Grabbing a screen recording is a useful feature when you want to keep a record of something for yourself or are trying to help out friends or family with iOS issues among other use cases. Read on for how to record your screen on iPhone and iPad with or without audio. Native screen recording arrived on iPhone and iPad with iOS 11 but if you don’t use it regularly it can be easy to forget…
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Language may help AI navigate new environments

April 18, 2020
In a new study published this week on the preprint server Arxiv.org, scientists at the University of Toronto and the Vector Institute, an independent nonprofit dedicated to advancing AI, propose BabyAI++, a platform to study whether descriptive texts help AI to generalize…
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AI Weekly: When to ship or shelve a coronavirus solution

April 18, 2020
Apple and Google’s common coronavirus contact tracing solution for smartphones continued to attract a lot of attention and debate over the course of the past week, and understandably so. It’s an unprecedented partnership between the world’s dominant smartphone operating system makers, but people are worried about privacy, and the notion that whatever tracking tool made in the name of…
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Paranoid Android returns w/ Android 10 builds for OnePlus, other devices

April 17, 2020
The custom ROM scene certainly isn’t what it used to be for Android, but an old name is returning yet again. Paranoid Android is back with Android 10 builds for select devices. What’s Paranoid Android? “AOSPA” as it’s known has been around for years and was one of the most popular custom ROM options a few years ago. In the time since, though, the ROM’s team has left things out to dry…
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Google Play requiring Android apps to clearly detail subscriptions before users sign-up

April 16, 2020
Alongside the first Android 11 Developer Preview, Google announced that it would review all Play Store apps requesting background location access. That policy is now live, with Google Play also introducing new requirements to make subscriptions more transparent. Applications that want access to your location when not in active use will have to first get approval from Google. The Play Store wants…
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