MobileNews

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 , Huawei has teamed up with fellow Chinese smartphone giants Xiaomi, Vivo and Oppo to offer international developers an easier…
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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…
AI & RoboticsNews

Amazon researchers distill knowledge from a large AI model to a simplified version

February 6, 2020
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 there’s no guarantee knowledge will be transferred to the student when the teacher is considerably large. That’s why a…
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GamingNews

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.
MobileNews

Peek-a-View iPhone app aims to protect your photos from those meddling kids

February 6, 2020
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 the photos you want to show them… Casey Liss explains. It all started with a trip to Disney World. We went for my…
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MobileNews

Google promises "something exciting" at Galaxy Unpacked event

February 6, 2020
Samsung is having an event on February 11 and we expect to see plenty of new hardware from the S20 debut through a new foldable screen phone to Galaxy Buds+. Apparently, the event will also see Android make its own announcement, according to a tweet that has appeared earlier…
MobileNews

ZTE Axon 10s Pro unveiled with S865 chipset, 5G connectivity and 48MP main cam

February 6, 2020
ZTE has effectively made the Axon 10s Pro official – there’s a detailed product page on the company’s website, leaving only the small details of when the phone will be available to consumers and how much it will cost. The phone is powered by a Snapdragon 865 chipset with 6/12GB of RAM and 128/256GB of storage. ZTE used fast LPDDR5 and UFS 3.0 chips respectively. There’s a chance that this Axon…
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