Apple has shared a new video on its YouTube channel today promoting the Night mode feature on iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro. In the video, Apple offers side-by-side comparisons of images taken with and without Night mode enabled.
Cleverly set to the Smashing Pumpkins song “We Only Come Out At Night,” Apple’s video focuses on the dramatic effect Night mode can have on iPhone…
Watch a robot fold the Motorola Razr until it dies [Livestream]
February 6, 2020
As we start off 2020, more foldable smartphones are hitting the market, and the latest is from Motorola. To see just how durable it is, CNET has tasked a robot with folding the Motorola Razr until it dies, and you can watch live.
This test of the Motorola Razr is using the…
Huawei, Oppo, Vivo and Xiaomi team up to help developers port apps to their proprietary app stores
February 6, 2020
The ongoing Huawei ban saga has become a large scale game of chess with carefully calculated moves from both sides of the board. Arguably the biggest issue for Huawei right now is the lack of popular third-party apps in its App Gallery but according to a new report from…
Waymo’s AI Content Search tool lets engineers quickly find objects in driving records
February 6, 2020
AI is the method by which self-driving cars perceive joggers, cyclists, traffic lights, road signs, trees, shrubs, and more, and it informs the way in which they choose to behave when encountered with those signals. The vehicles in Waymo’s fleet aren’t an exception to the rule — they tap AI to make real-time driving decisions, in part by matching obstacles spotted by their onboard sensors to…
Netflix has started streaming to Android in AV1
February 6, 2020
Netflix has started rolling out AV1 encoded content on the Android platform. Users will be able to watch select titles encoded in AV1 by enabling the ‘Save Data’ feature in the app.
Netflix currently streams its content in a wide variety of codecs, including…
In AI and machine learning systems, knowledge is typically distilled by training a small model — a student — to mimic a large and cumbersome model — a teacher. The idea is to compress the teacher’s knowledge by using its outputs as labels to optimize the student, but…
Ubisoft’s Uplay revenue is up 73% compared to last year
February 6, 2020
Ubisoft’s sales are down significantly, but the company has some bright spots as it works to regroup. The publisher’s net bookings (which is its primary metric for measuring revenue) reached €1.117 billion ($1.226 billion) for the first nine months of the fiscal year. That’s down 17.4% year-over-year. But even as games like Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Breakpoint struggles and drags down…
Sega announced today that Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and Puyo Puyo 2 are coming to the Nintendo Switch on February 20. Each game costs $8.
These are coming as part of the Sega Ages program, Sega’s initiative to release classic games on modern platforms. Lately, Sega Ages’…
A Disney World family trip led to a developer coming up with Peek-a-View, a way to protect your photos from accidental deletion when your kids want to scroll through them.
It can also be used when handing your iPhone to friends, colleagues, or clients to ensure they see only…
In the midst of its struggles with a ban from the US government, Huawei has been working on alternatives to the Play Store. Now, a report from is shedding light on plans from Huawei, Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo to create a Play Store competitor of sorts.
As it stands today, the Google Play Store can’t be used in China along with other Google applications and services. This has left Android…
