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Santa Clara University adds support for contactless ID cards on iPhone and Apple Watch

February 26, 2020
Apple continues to expand the availability of its contactless student IDs feature in the Wallet app. Santa Clara University announced today that its students, faculty, and staff can now add their ACCESS ID cards to the Wallet app on their iPhone and Apple Watch. The process for adding a Santa Clara University ACCESS card is as follows: For a technologically savvy generation of students, setting…
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HTC plans to release its first 5G phone in 2020

February 26, 2020
HTC may be pouring most of its energy into VR headsets, but it hasn’t forgotten about its (frankly languishing) smartphone range. Company chief Yves Maitre said in an interview that HTC’s first 5G phone launches sometime in 2020. He didn’t provide any clues…
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Galaxy S20 Ultra battery test shows how much of a drain 120Hz might be

February 26, 2020
Perhaps one of the most exciting things about the Galaxy S20 Ultra is its huge 5,000 mAh battery. That number on its own should mean killer battery life, but it seems the Galaxy S20 Ultra’s 120Hz display is going to put a pretty huge drain on that. has been putting the S20 Ultra through its paces over the past several days and so far, the results on the out-of-the-box settings have been more…
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Xbox boss expects to keep a console under his TV for the next 10+ years

February 26, 2020
Microsoft is planning to launch both the next-gen Xbox Series X and the Project xCloud gaming service this year. But is that a coherent strategy? Isn’t a cloud future one without dedicated gaming devices? Well, that’s not how Xbox boss Phil Spencer sees it. Cloud gaming is going to echo music and movie streaming, Spencer said during an interview with Insomniac Games founder Ted Price for the…
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Salesforce’s AI navigates Wikipedia to find answers to complex questions

February 25, 2020
Wikipedia offers a wealth of knowledge on countless topics to those who know where to look, but therein lies the rub — navigating its database of over 6 billion articles requires some web-crawling finesse. In an effort to streamline the search, researchers at Salesforce developed what they call a graph-based trainable retriever-reader framework, which sequentially retrieves paragraphs from…
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