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AnandTech’s in-depth iPhone 11 review says the A13 processor is twice as fast as the competition

October 16, 2019
AnandTech is out today with its full review of the iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro. As usual, the site’s review includes a detailed look at the performance of the new devices. This year, Apple touted that the new A13 processor would be 20% faster than the A12, a claim now corroborated by AnandTech. During its testing, AnandTech found that the A13 processor is 20% faster than the A12 processor…
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Info on Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite launch colors leaks

October 16, 2019
Samsung is preparing “Lite” additions to both the Galaxy S10 and Galaxy Note10 lineups. They will bear the model names SM-G770F and SM-N770F, respectively, and while the Note10 Lite is a mystery, a lot more is known about the S-phone. The Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite may be another name for the Galaxy A91. It will be available in White, Black and Blue. They will be “Prism” colors like the S10…
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'PUBG' season 5 will have throwable items and weapons

October 16, 2019
Season 5 of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is about to get underway, and PUBG Corp has offered some details on what’s in store. One of the bigger additions is spike traps, which you can place in the path of an enemy car to pop the tires. You’ll be able to…
AI & RoboticsNews

Microsoft’s UniLM AI achieves state-of-the-art performance on summarization and language generation

October 16, 2019
Language model pretraining, a technique that “teaches” machine learning systems contextualized text representations by having them predict words based on their contexts, has advanced the state of the art across a range of natural language processing objectives. However, models like Google’s BERT, which are bidirectional in design (meaning they draw on left-of-word and right-of-word context…
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MobileNews

Beamo is an affordable, compact CO2 laser cutter and engraver

October 16, 2019
Yes, a laser cutter/engraver. Definitely not our the usual stuff we cover but this one is exciting enough so we felt we should share with any tinkerers or artistic types among you. Flux – the company that originally gathered quite a bit of attention for the sub $1000…
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Xiaomi Black Shark 2 review — An affordable flagship gaming phone

October 16, 2019
Gaming phones are an ancient idea. Nokia released the N-Gage, which was like a phone built into a game controller, in 2003. And it didn’t do very well. But the concept has made a resurgence recently thanks to devices from Razer, Asus, and Xiaomi. Now, Xiaomi has launched its second-generation gaming phone called the Black Shark 2. The Black Shark 2 has a suite of features that make it a great…
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