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Oppo Find X2 goes official w/ 120Hz display, Snapdragon 865, leather...

After delaying its launch due to MWC’s cancellation last month, Oppo has today announced its flagship Find X2 and Find X2 Pro smartphones. Here’s what you needed to know. The Oppo Find X2 and X2 Pro are both 5G Android smartphones where Oppo is heavily focusing on the screen and cameras, so let’s start there. Both Find X2 devices ship with a 6.7-inch 3168×1440 AMOLED display which has a…
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How to livestream the Oppo Find X2 and Oppo Smartwatch launch

Oppo is set to unveil the follow-up to its legendary pop-up Find X at a launch event in London, but you can livestream the entire thing from the comfort of your home. Despite many other firms canceling launches because of coronavirus concerns, Oppo is still powering through…
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Report: Apple rejecting coronavirus iOS apps that aren’t from ‘recognized institutions’

Apple is taking a firm stance against coronavirus applications that aren’t from “recognized institutions,” a new report from CNBC says. According to the report, Apple is trying to prevent the spread of misinformation with this policy. For the report, spoke to four independent developers who had applications related to coronavirus rejected from the App Store. The applications in question…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Microsoft’s AI generates 3D objects from 2D images

The AI research labs at Facebook, Nvidia, and startups like Threedy.ai have at various points tried their hand at the challenge of 2D-object-to-3D-shape conversion. But in a new preprint paper, a team hailing from Microsoft Research detail a framework that they claim is the…
GamingNews

Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous — Adapting a tabletop RPG campaign for a PC game

Whenever I think of adapting tabletop role-playing campaigns to a PC game, my mind goes to Temple of Elemental Evil. It’s one of the seminal modules of Dungeons & Dragons, and in 2003, Troika Games released a near 1-to-1 conversion of it as a PC game. And boy, did it have problems beyond bugs despite having all the bones of a fantastic RPG and being one of the best adaptations of the…
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Project Sandcastle brings Android to older iPhone models w/ more promised soon

If you ever wanted to run Android on an iPhone — we don’t know why either — then thanks to Project Sandcastle, you can. Just yesterday we saw that there is a way to run the checkra1n jailbreak on Android to jailbreak your iOS devices. With that in mind, why not go the whole hog and run Android on an iPhone? It’s not something we’d ever suggest doing, but at present, if you have an iPhone…
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