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Android 11 DP4: Picture-in-picture gets resizing and other UI changes

The fourth Android 11 Developer Preview released today, bringing a small swath of changes and upgrades. Included in these, you’ll find that Android 11 is making picture-in-picture resizable and bringing some minor changes to its UI. As our phones get bigger and more capable of doing multiple tasks simultaneously, picture-in-picture in video apps, and especially YouTube, has become more…
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Google prepares an overdue gesture tutorial for Android 11

Google introduced an entirely new way to navigate Android back with the debut of Android 10, but one odd decision was the lack of a tutorial for that new system. Now, with Android 11, Google is finally adding a gesture tutorial — here’s what it looks like. Buried in…
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Here’s everything new in Android 11 Developer Preview 4 [Gallery]

Despite just being developer previews, the first three Android 11 releases have had their share of new features and UI tweaks. The unscheduled Android 11 DP4 is available today and we’re finding every new feature. Over the coming hours, we’ll dive into Android 11 DP4’s new features and every single change. (The newest updates will be at top of this list. Be sure to check back…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Facebook’s AI ‘learns how to learn’ to transport payloads using a drone

In a recent paper, Facebook and University of California, Berkely researchers propose an approach to payload-carrying drone flight planning that “learns how to learn” models of environmental dynamics. Results from experiments suggest the work could inform the development of future robots  — perhaps in warehouses or other industrial settings — that physically interact with and adapt to the…
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How Microsoft, OpenAI, and OECD are putting AI ethics principles into practice

Microsoft’s AI ethics committee helped craft internal Department of Defense contract policy, and G20 member nations wouldn’t have passed AI ethics principles if it weren’t for Japanese leadership. That’s according to a case study examining projects at Microsoft, OpenAI, and OECD out this week. Published Tuesday, the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC) case study examines…
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