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MIUI 11 (Global Stable) lands on the Redmi 6 and Redmi 6A in India

December 12, 2019
Xiaomi is continuing its rollout of MIUI 11, the latest version of its Android skin, that was initially unveiled back in September. The company has been making steady progress in bringing it to as many of its old devices as possible, and today the software is reaching two more models. We’re talking about the Redmi 6 and Redmi 6A in India. Both of these are getting their first taste of MIUI…
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OnePlus 7 and 7 Pro get November security patch with OxygenOS 10.0.3

December 12, 2019
OnePlus has started sending out a brand new software update to its devices from the first half of 2019 – the OnePlus 7 and 7 Pro. Both of these are now in the process of receiving OxygenOS 10.0.3, and we’ll warn you straight from the get-go that this isn’t a huge update. It’s basically only packing some unnamed improvements for system stability, general bug fixes, and…
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GamingNews

'Forza Horizon 4' is getting a 72-car battle royale mode

December 12, 2019
Are video games legal any more if they don’t have a battle royale mode? Even Civilization VI joined the fray a few months back. The latest game to hop into the battle royale arena, including the shrinking play area popularized by PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and…
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Twitter will now let you post iOS Live Photos as GIFs

December 11, 2019
Live Photos are one of Apple’s signature camera options on iOS, making your photos look like one of the living photographs in Harry Potter. But if you’ve tried to post that Live Photo on Twitter, it would render as a still photo, taking away some of that magic. You could…
GamingNews

Naughty Dog is donating the money from its ‘Jak and Daxter’ reissues

December 11, 2019
Early this year, to celebrate its 35th anniversary, game developer Naughty Dog did a physical reissue of its classic PS2-era Jak and Daxter games for PlayStation 4. Fans apparently loved it. The collector’s edition sold out in hours and the standard editions sold out in less than a week. Now, instead of pocketing the cash, Naughty Dog is donating all of the proceeds to a bunch of…
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Twitter lets you upload iOS Live Photos as GIFs at last

December 11, 2019
Twitter is offering iOS users another way to get more out of Live Photos by letting you turn them into GIFs “anywhere you upload photos on Twitter.” It’s not clear whether this’ll work for Pixel motion photos as well. Engadget has asked Twitter for…
GamingNews

Forza Horizon 4 gets Eliminator battle royale mode

December 11, 2019
The Eliminator is coming to Forza Horizon 4. While that might sound like a 1980s vehicle-based TV action series, it’s actually the game’s new free battle royale. This is part of Microsoft’s continued efforts to support the open-world driving game with regular content…
AI & RoboticsNews

Microsoft’s FastSpeech AI speeds up realistic voices generation

December 11, 2019
State-of-the-art text-to-speech models can produce snippets that sound nearly human-like on first listen. In point of fact, they underpin the neural voices available through Google Assistant, as well as the newscaster voice that recently came to Alexa and Amazon’s Polly service. But because most of the models share the same synthesis approaches in common — this is, they generate a…
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