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iPhone: How to turn off Live Photos for existing pictures

January 17, 2020
Do you have some, or maybe even a lot of pictures you’ve shot with iPhone that you’d like to turn off the Live Photos effect? Follow along for how to turn off Live Photos for existing pictures. Live Photos is a neat feature that captures 1.5 seconds before and after you snap an image that can really bring a moment to life. But sometimes you might have had the feature turned on by accident…
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MobileNews

Barclays: iPhone 12 to feature ‘refreshed’ Face ID, 3D time-of-flight sensors

January 17, 2020
Analysts from Barclays are out with a new investor note, in which they predict that Apple’s iPhone 12 lineup will include upgraded Face ID sensors, among other changes. The analysts also corroborate claims made by Ming-Chi Kuo. According to the Barclays note obtained by CNBC, the iPhone 12 lineup will include “refreshed” Face ID. What exactly this means is unclear, but theoretically it…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Amazon details the AI behind Alexa’s Whisper Mode

January 17, 2020
In October 2018, months after a brief reveal, Amazon brought Whisper Mode to select third- and first-party Alexa devices. It expanded the feature to all locales in November 2019, such that all smart home appliances powered by Alexa — the company’s virtual assistant — now respond to whispered speech by whispering back. Amazon was a bit light on the technical details initially, save that…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Want optimized AI? Rethink your storage infrastructure and data pipeline

January 17, 2020
This article is part of the Technology Insight series, made possible with funding from Intel. ________________________________________________________________________________________   Most discussions of AI infrastructure start and end with compute hardware — the GPUs, general-purpose CPUs, FPGAs, and tensor processing units responsible for training complex algorithms and making predictions…
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