The Honor Band 5 is one of the latest fitness trackers designed to enhance everyday health without too much distraction.
Normally, when when you mention fitness trackers, you wouldn’t instantly think of budget smartphone brand Honor. This is obviously the fifth iteration of the fitness strap and it’s no doubt the best so far.
With a sub $40 price-tag there are naturally some compromises and…
Android 10’s new gesture navigation system is a bit of a mixed bag, but it’s what Google wants to be a standard across every Android device. Now, we’re learning that Google is going to force OEMs to hide their own gesture navigation systems in Android, even going so…
For the past five years, Google has required that Android smartphones ship with a message on their boot screen that says “Powered by Android.” Now, we’re learning that the requirements around this message will including Google’s new Android branding starting in…
How to operationalize AI ethics
October 7, 2019
Last week, I moderated a panel at TWIMLcon about how teams and organizations can operationalize responsible AI that combined perspectives from three people from different corners of the tech and AI community.
Rachel Thomas is best known as cofounder of fast.ai, a popular free online deep learning course. In recent months, Thomas was named director of a new organization that mixes research, policy…
Latest AirPods on sale from $130, 9.7-inch iPad with Cell $110 off, iPhone battery cases, more
October 7, 2019
Today’s best deals include the latest AirPods on sale from $130, plus deals on Apple’s 9.7-inch iPad Cellular, and iPhone battery cases. Hit the jump for all that and more in the latest 9to5Toys Lunch Break.
Rakuten has the latest AirPods on sale starting at $130…
Android Auto just went through a huge redesign and, following that, an update to Google Maps on the platform rolled out as well. Now, we’re seeing a slight tweak to the Google Maps interface on Android Auto hit some users with a logo in place and…
There’s no getting around the fact that the Samsung Galaxy Fold is a fragile device, but Samsung has certainly done its best following issues early this year. Now, the folks at have republished their Galaxy Fold teardown, and it reveals several internal improvements.
With its redesigned release, Samsung claimed that it has made several improvements to the hardware of…
Spotify and Twitch finally debut Apple TV apps
October 7, 2019
Three years ago, Spotify told GitHub followers that an app for the Apple TV wasn’t coming “anytime soon,” as development had been “down prioritized” — most likely a result of ongoing strife between the music streaming giant and Apple, which was actively promoting…
Fortnite was still the most-watch game on livestreaming platform Twitch in the third quarter, but the hours watched on the platform declined.
During the quarter, the most notable change here is the sharp increase in the number of hours watched for World of Warcraft. With the…
Machines have a tougher time summarizing text than you’d think, at least where the summarization is abstractive rather than extractive. While the extraction requires merely concatenating sentences, abstraction involves the task of paraphrasing using novel sentences. Progress has been made in the news domain recently, perhaps owing to the abundance of corpora on which algorithmic systems can be…
