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BenchSci raises $22 million for AI-powered drug discovery tools

February 4, 2020
Assessing the health of pharmaceutical R&D by unearthing hidden patterns in procurement data is a task made simpler by AI. At least, that’s the pitch given by David Qixiang Chen, Elvis Wianda, Liran Belenzon, and Tom Leung, who cofounded BenchSci in 2015. The Toronto, Canada-based biotech company taps AI to run experiments that accelerate drug discovery with the aim of increasing the speed…
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Unlocked Samsung Galaxy S9+ gets Android 10 in the US

February 4, 2020
Samsung released the Android 10-based One UI 2.0 update for the Galaxy S9 and S9+ last week in the US, but only for the carrier-locked units. Now, the company has expanded the rollout for the unlocked S9+ units as well. The firmware for the unlocked units sports version…
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The Apple TV app is now available on LG’s 2019 TVs

February 4, 2020
LG has made the Apple TV app available on a variety of its 2019 smart TVs as promised, according to a press release from the company. The app will be on TVs in more than 80 countries and gives users access to Apple’s new Apple TV+ video subscription service as well as the…
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Now certain 2019 LG TVs have the Apple TV app too

February 4, 2020
Late last year LG started to add AirPlay 2 and HomeKit to its TVs with firmware updates. Then at CES last month the company announced it would add the full Apple TV app that adds all of the video bits from iTunes, as well as access to the Apple TV+ service. Now, if you have one of its 2019 OLED TVs or high-end NanoCell LCD TVs then you should start seeing the app, while “select” other…
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Samsung Galaxy Home Mini will launch in Korea on February 12 with IR capabilities

February 3, 2020
For a while now, we were starting to believe that Samsung’s Bixby-powered smart speaker would keep existing as vaporware. After all, it was first announced over a year ago, in 2018 alongside the Galaxy Note9. Earlier today, Samsung Korea accidentally posted an announcement article for the Galaxy Home Mini. The article was posted on Samsung Korea but has since been taken down. Screenshot via…
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Fortnite is hosting a PS4 tournament on February 15 and 16

February 3, 2020
Sony announced today that Epic Games is hosting The Fortnite Celebration Cup on February 15 and February 16 as an exclusive tournament for PlayStation 4. Fortnite is a gigantic hit, becoming a pop culture influencer that has extended its reach well outside of the world of…
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Samsung Galaxy A01 debuts in Vietnam with Snapdragon 439

February 3, 2020
Towards the end of last year, Samsung quietly announced the Galaxy A01 smartphone and it’s apparent from the name that this is an entry-level smartphone we are talking about. But information regarding the specs was scarce so we had to wait until now when thethe phone is hitting the shelves to get the full picture. It seems that Vietnam will be the first country to get the handset, which is…
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