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France says limitations in iOS are delaying the development of its COVID-19 contact-tracing app

April 21, 2020
As Apple and Google develop contact-tracing technology, France says a technical obstacle in iOS is preventing its government contact-tracing app from working properly. reports that France wants to deploy the app by May 11, and it’s asking Apple to “lift the technical hurdle” that’s currently in the way. As the report explains, Apple is preventing contact-tracing apps from running…
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iPhone SE: hands on with every official Apple case [Video]

April 21, 2020
As with every iPhone launch, Apple has produced a variety of official cases to go along with its new iPhone SE hardware. Unlike the iPhone 11, which featured 17 unique official Apple cases at launch, the iPhone SE’s official case options are much more modest. In total…
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Netflix for Android adds ‘screen lock’ button to prevent accidental touches

April 21, 2020
Have you ever been watching a TV show or movie on your smartphone and accidentally touched the screen, resulting in the content stopping or moving around the timeline? If so, you’ll be happy to know that Netflix for Android has added a new “screen lock” button to prevent exactly that. Rolled out in the past several days to its Android app, this new button on Netflix’s mobile app makes…
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Aptoide data breach leaks personal info of over 20m users of the Android app store

April 21, 2020
Choice is one of the biggest strengths of Android, to the point where you can even ditch the Google Play Store for a third-party alternative. Aptoide has been one popular app store for Android users, but recently it’s suffered a huge data breach. worked with data breach monitoring service  to uncover details relating to Aptoide’s data breach which exposed details for 20 million Android…
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Apple likely planning 2020 iPhone SE assembly in Brazil

April 20, 2020
Apple announced the new iPhone SE last week, and the phone is now available to order in more than 40 countries, according to Apple. While Brazil is not in the first wave at launch, the 2020 iPhone SE may arrive in the country in the coming weeks, as ANATEL (Brazil’s…
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Google’s Entities as Experts AI answers text-based questions with less data

April 20, 2020
A preprint study published this week by coauthors at Google Research describes Entities as Experts (EAE), a new type of machine learning model that can access memories of entities (e.g., people, places, organizations, dates, times, and figures) mentioned in a piece of sample text. They claim it outperforms two state-of-the-art models with far less data while capturing more factual knowledge and is…
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