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iPhone 11 Pro Max Smart Battery Case enhances the camera, but the battery may not be necessary

You’re reading 9to5Mac — experts who break news about Apple and its surrounding ecosystem, day after day. Be sure to check out our homepage for all the latest news, and follow 9to5Mac on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to stay in the loop. Don’t know where to start? Check out our exclusive stories, reviews, how-tos, and subscribe to our YouTube channel I visited the Apple Store at St.
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Android 10 now rolls out to all Galaxy Note10 and Note10+ units

This should sound familiar by now – the Android 10 update for Samsung Galaxy Note10 and Galaxy Note10+ users running Android 9 Pie is here, no longer limited to beta users. This is the same rollout strategy that Samsung employed for the S10 update, down the first country to…
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JetBlue’s ASMR imagines a fantasy world where air travel isn’t horribly stressful

JetBlue is introducing AirSMR, a nine-minute audio experience that features calming sounds of airport announcements, the light chatter of crowds, snack bags crinkling, and airplanes landing and taking off in the distance. On paper, none of that sounds like it could possibly be anything other than an aural nightmare. But the experience is surprisingly soothing, particularly because it’s a made-up…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Gecko Robotics raises $40 million for industrial inspection robots

Industrial robotics startup Gecko Robotics has raised $40 million in a series B round of funding led by Drive Capital, with participation from Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, Y Combinator, and Next47. Notable angel investors in this round include Mark Cuban, SoftBank senior managing partner Deep Nishar, and Gusto CEO Josh Reeves. Founded out of Pittsburgh in 2016, Gecko Robotics develops several…
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The best games for PS4

Sony’s PlayStation 4 just hit its sixth birthday, and that poses a problem. You see, game developers have seen fit to release a game for almost every day the console has been available, leaving you with well over 1,500 titles to choose from. The sheer volume of games…
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AI experts urge machine learning researchers to tackle climate change

At the Tackling Climate Change workshop at this year’s NeurIPS conference, some of the top minds in machine learning came together to discuss the effects of climate change on life on Earth, how AI can tackle the urgent problem, and why and how the machine learning community should join the fight. The panel included Yoshua Bengio, MILA director and University of Montreal professor; Jeff Dean…
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