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Motorola announces plan to re-enter the premium smartphone space

December 3, 2019
After years on the fringes of the budget and affordable segment, Motorola has announced plans to re-enter the premium smartphone space. At the Qualcomm Snapdragon Tech Summit in Maui, the company reiterated plans to target the more premium end of the market, with a heavy reliance on the newly announced Snapdragon 865 chipset. “Motorola will continue leading the 5G era with our expanded lineup of…
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AI capsule system classifies digits with state-of-the-art accuracy

December 3, 2019
There’s strong evidence that humans rely on coordinate frames, or reference lines and curves, to suss out the position of points in space. That’s unlike widely-used computer vision algorithms, which differentiate among objects by numerical representations of their characteristics. In pursuit of a more human-like approach, researchers at Google, Alphabet subsidiary DeepMind, and the University…
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Dragon platformer ‘EarthNight’ is out today on Switch, PC, Mac and iOS

December 3, 2019
EarthNight made waves when it was revealed at in 2015. The endless runner mixes hand-drawn visuals with catchy chiptune music and old-school sound effects, resulting in a game that could please both today’s mobile-first gamers as well as those who grew up in the 2D era. And of course, there are giant dragons. After four years of waiting, the game is finally hitting consoles and computers…
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Google: 80% of Android apps now encrypt network traffic by default

December 3, 2019
Google has announced that 80% of Android apps now encrypt all traffic by default, thanks to the increased uptake of transport layer security (TLS). TLS is a cryptographic protocol used by all HTTPS domains to secure traffic over a network. Since the launch of Android 7 back in 2016, Google has allowed developers to configure their network security settings without changing the app’s code…
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