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YouTube rolls out ‘Explore’ tab on Android, iOS apps w/ trending, creator content

After being in beta for shy of two years, YouTube is finally rolling out its “Explore” tab on both Android and iOS, a new home for trending content and much more. In a post today, YouTube confirms that the Trending tab is being replaced with Explore and the change is rolling out now to all users. What’s different about Explore? Instead of just showing the most popular content on YouTube…
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Google trained Pixel 4’s Soli AI on millions of gestures from volunteers

Google today penned an explainer on the Soli radar-based technology that ships inside its Pixel 4 smartphones. While many of the hardware details were previously known, the company for the first time peeled back the curtains on Soli’s AI models, which are trained to detect and recognize motion gestures with low latency. While it’s early days — the Pixel 4 and the Pixel 4 XL are the first…
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Should you be concerned about juice jacking as an iPhone user?

Juice jacking has become more prevalent in the news over the last year. The term refers to hackers setting up malicious code in free public USB chargers at malls, hotels, airports, etc. to read and steal data from mobile devices. But is juice jacking something iPhone owners need to worry about? Let’s look at how susceptible iOS is and how to prevent juice jacking on iPhone. Duck Duck Go, the…
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How the coronavirus may reshape AI research conferences

COVID-19 officially became a global pandemic on Wednesday. As public health officials and governments respond; businesses brace for losses; and events like trade shows, SXSW, and Google’s I/O shutter around the world, the disease is also impacting scientific conferences.
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OxygenOS Open Beta 1 for OnePlus 7T/7T Pro adds Live Captions, February patch, more

After a little over a five-month wait, the OxygenOS Open Beta 1 for the OnePlus 7T and 7T Pro is now available to download, bringing with it some added new features. If you’re not familiar with the OxygenOS Open Beta program, it essentially allows you to install early builds of the OS. You’ll often get some new features long ahead of “stable” builds, but you do so by giving up some…
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