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MIUI 11 for the Redmi 5 and Redmi Note 5 now seeding in China

November 9, 2019
Credit where credit is due, Xiaomi made some big promises regarding MIUI 11 updates on its older devices and has been following through on those pretty nicely since. Now the company’s shiny new MIUI skin has officially started popping-up on Xiaomi Redmi 5 Plus (Redmi Note 5) and Xiaomi Redmi 5 devices in China. Both area nearly two-year-old budget devices and that’s not even the…
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OnePlus made a piano using 17 OnePlus 7T Pro units

November 9, 2019
A couple of days ago, OnePlus posted a dark image on Twitter with the caption “Coming soon.” This led people to think the company was going to launch yet another phone. Well, they guessed it wrong because this new product turned out to be a piano. Yes, OnePlus…
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Call of Duty Endowment’s ‘Hire. Honor.’ campaign aims to get veterans back to work

November 9, 2019
Celebrating its tenth anniversary, the Call of Duty Endowment announced its new “Hire. Honor.” campaign. The aim is to get veterans back to work, helping them adjust to civilian life after they serve in the military. General James Mattis, decorated American veteran and former United States Secretary of Defense, kicked off the campaign in a call-to-action Public Service Video which can be…
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Canada is denying travel visas to AI researchers headed to NeurIPS — again

November 9, 2019
Canadian immigration officials are denying travel visas to a large number of AI researchers and research students scheduled to attend NeurIPS and the Black in AI workshop, event organizers said. Those denied entry include Tẹjúmádé Àfọ̀njá, co-organizer of the NeurIPS Machine Learning for the Developing World workshop. Neural Information Processing Systems or NeurIPs is the largest annual…
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The Honor V30 might be coming to Europe

November 9, 2019
The Honor V30 has been popping up in the rumor mill quite frequently. An official TENAA certification and some carrier listings later, it is all but certain that Honor’s next flagship is on the horizon and likely to land this moth in China. As par an exclusive insider…
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Samsung Galaxy A30s and Galaxy A50s get price cuts in India

November 9, 2019
Samsung has dropped the prices of the Galaxy A30s and Galaxy A50s in India. The Galaxy A30s comes in 4GB/64GB configuration and is down to INR15,999 ($225/€205) from INR16,999 ($240/€215). The Galaxy A50s, on the other hand, comes in two memory versions – 4GB/128GB…
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Xiaomi Redmi 8 and Redmi 8A receiving MIUI 11 Global Stable update

November 9, 2019
The Redmi 8 and Redmi 8A, which were slated to receive MIUI 11 Global Stable update in India starting November 13, have already started receiving Xiaomi’s newest custom Android skin in the country. The new firmware for both smartphones sports version number 11.0.1.0.PCPINXM, but the build for Redmi 8 weighs 600MB in size while the build for the Redmi 8A comes at 544MB. MIUI 11 Global…
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