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Android TV rolls out ‘Stay home and stay informed’ notification for coronavirus news

Google has been pushing Android TV as a way for users to stay both entertained  informed during the coronavirus pandemic. Now, Google has rolled out a new “stay home and stay informed” notification for Android TV users to help them find news on the coronavirus. Rolling out widely as of the past few days, a notification appears on Android TV devices on the homescreen which simply…
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Android 11’s public beta to launch with June 3rd live stream

Google will announce the first public beta for Android 11 in a live stream at 11AM ET on June 3rd, according to a promotional video spotted by Android Police. The search giant typically debuts Android’s latest public beta in May each year, but the difference in 2020 is…
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Health care at ICLR: AI tackles poor data, low resources, and black boxes

Mihaela van der Schaar, a Turing Fellow and professor of ML, AI, and health at the University of Cambridge and UCLA, believes that when it comes to applying AI to health care, we need a new way to think about the “complex class of problems” it presents. “We need new problem formulations. And there are many ways to conceive of a problem in medicine, and there are many ways to formalize the…
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Slack is testing a major redesign of its Android app with new navigation bar

:Slack’s mobile apps have always valiantly tried to replicate the desktop and web experience with a single home screen and a reliance on swipe-based navigation and cumbersome menus. But a new update the company is rolling out on its Android beta channel is introducing a “simpler, more organized” Slack with major visual and user interface changes. The update’s biggest new feature is the…
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Activision Blizzard: Next premium Call of Duty title is on track for the fall

Activision Blizzard president and chief operating officer Daniel Alegre said in an earnings call that the next premium Call of Duty game is on track for the fall. Activision’s own revenues were $519 million in the first quarter, driven by Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Call of Duty: Warzone (a battle royale game), and Call of Duty: Mobile. Alegre didn’t say what the title’s name is or if it…
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