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Samsung trademarks "Space Zoom" ahead of Galaxy S11 launch

November 7, 2019
An interesting patent popped up on EUIPO (European Union Intellectual Property Office) by Samsung describing technology for lossless zoom called “Space Zoom”. It’s very likely that the feature will find its way to one or all of the upcoming Galaxy S11 smartphones in February next year. The patent doesn’t go into details but describes a feature that lets you zoom in on a…
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iOS 13.2.2 now available with fix for background app performance, more

November 7, 2019
iOS 13.2.2 is now rolling out to iPhone and iPod touch users. This comes after the release of iOS 13.2 last week. iOS 13.2.2 includes a fix for RAM management, cellular data performance, and more. Read on for all of the details. If you’re wondering what happened to iOS 13.2.1, Apple released it last week exclusively for the HomePod. The initial HomePod…
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iPhone 11 Pro scores 117 in DXOMark camera quality test, ranked in third place

November 7, 2019
The reliability of DXOMark’s testing is often questioned and argued about. Camera quality is subjective, etcetera etcetera. With that disclaimer out of the way, the publication today released its test results for the iPhone 11 Pro Max. Apple’s 2019 flagship scored 117 on its smartphone camera test, ranking third behind the Huawei Mate 30 Pro and the Xiaomi Mic CC9 Pro Premium. The iPhone 11…
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Motorola Moto G8 pops up in promotional video

November 7, 2019
Towards the end of last month, Motorola released two Moto G8 variants with the G8 Plus and G8 Play and now it seems the middle version is around the corner. Thanks to a leaked promotional video posted by , we get our first look at the vanilla Moto G8 which looks quite…
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Applause targets AI bias by sourcing training data at scale

November 7, 2019
One of the biggest challenges — and there are many — facing the artificial intelligence (AI) realm today is inherent biases created by limited training data. Researchers have already demonstrated how Amazon’s facial analysis software, for example, distinguishes gender among certain ethnicities less accurately than other services, while Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Elizabeth…
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