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Samsung Galaxy A30 receives Android 10 and One UI 2.0 update

February 13, 2020
Hours after the Galaxy A50s got promoted to Android 10, the Galaxy A30 joins in (despite reports that the update was delayed for next month). Users in India are the first to receive it. As usual, the Android 10 update also brings One UI 2.0. The changelog features the usual suspects – Dark mode (which can dim wallpapers), a new gesture navigation, revamped Digital Wellbeing, plus updates to the…
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MIT CSAIL’s AI corrects outdated Wikipedia articles

February 13, 2020
The English-language Wikipedia contains over 6 million articles, and the combined versions for all other languages contain over 28 billion words over 52 million articles in 309 languages. It’s an incomparably valuable resource for knowledge seekers, needless to say, but…
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Intuition Robotics raises $36 million to bring AI companions to everyone

February 13, 2020
Israeli robotics startup Intuition Robotics has raised $36 million in a series B round of funding co-led by Sparx Group and OurCrowd, with participation from Samsung Next, Toyota AI Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, iRobot, Sompo Holdings, Union Tech Ventures, Happiness Capital, and Capital Point. Founded in 2015, Intuition Robotics is creating what it calls “social companion” robots and related…
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Samsung Galaxy S20 and S20+ get new color options before release

February 13, 2020
Samsung unveiled only a very limited color selection for its S20 phones, but it looks like people will have more hues to choose from than initially thought. The Galaxy S20 and Galaxy S20+ are available in Cosmic White. You can see those on the pre-order pages of Samsung’s…
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Motorola's foldable Razr is unsurprisingly hard to repair

February 13, 2020
Motorala’s contemporary take on the Razr has been quite publicly panned by testers. CNET, for example, wanted to see if the device could withstand 100,000 folds — it only made it to the 27,000th fold before it started showing problems (which Motorala has…
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Pokémon Home is now available on Nintendo Switch, iOS and Android

February 13, 2020
After a short wait, Pokémon Home is now available to download on iOS, Android and Nintendo Switch. The Nintendo-made app allows you to transfer your Pokémon to the franchise’s latest entry, Pokémon Sword and Shield, from past Switch and 3DS games like Pokémon X and Y. In the future, it will also work with Pokémon Go. The app is free to download, but if you want all to take advantage…
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Microsoft's Project xCloud preview extends to iOS devices

February 13, 2020
After first launching in preview on Android phones, Microsoft’s Project xCloud is making its way over to iOS devices. Starting today, iPhone and iPad owners can check out the game streaming service through Apple’s TestFlight platform. With this being a…
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The base Galaxy S20 for Verizon won't arrive until the spring

February 13, 2020
The ‘entry’ Galaxy S20 doesn’t have support for millimeter wave 5G, and it’s now clear that will be a pain for some would-be early adopters. Verizon (Engadget’s parent company) quietly mentioned in its press release for Samsung’s phones that the base S20 won’t be available until the second quarter of the year, when a model with support for Verizon’s…
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