MobileNews

Apple working to allow iPhones to act as POS terminals

January 27, 2022
According to a new report, Apple is looking to introduce a new service that would allow businesses to use iPhones as POS (point of sale) terminals without any additional hardware involved. The move is expected to happen via a software update in the coming months and would allow customers to pay via NFC directly by placing their contactless credit/debit cards, iPhone or Apple Watch on another…
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MobileNews

Honor confirms MWC event set for February 28

January 27, 2022
The annual Mobile World Congress (MWC) trade show is set to take place in Barcelona in about a month and Honor just confirmed it will hold an in-person event. MWC 2022 will once again take place in Barcelona between February 28 and March 3 and Honor will be one of the brands…
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No, our Android app doesn't contain a virus. It's a false positive from AVG.

January 27, 2022
It has recently come to our attention that a number of our Android app users have been receiving menacing virus warnings from various antivirus apps. A few users have reported a message from AVG identifying an Evo-gen trojan threat inside the app and a similar thing has also reportedly happened to a user on an Oppo phone, with the warning issues by the phone’s built-in protection. AVG…
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GamingNews

Epic Games Store has 194M users, readies new features for 2022

January 27, 2022
Epic Games today published its Year in Review for 2021, in which it gathered details about how the Store has grown in the last year. Among other facts, we know the Epic Games Store now has over 194 million users on PC. It also mentioned that Epic is preparing new updates for…
AI & RoboticsNews

OpenAI rolls out new text-generating models that it claims are less toxic

January 27, 2022
Did you miss a session from the Future of Work Summit? Head over to our Future of Work Summit on-demand library to stream. Large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI’s GPT-3, which can “write” sentences that read nearly like they were written by a human, can be prompted to perform a range of writing tasks given only a few examples of the tasks. For example, LLMs have been used to create…
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MobileNews

Magisk v24.0 adds Android 12 support, debuts Zygisk, plus more

January 27, 2022
Magisk v24.0 has arrived from developer John Wu, with this update including Android 12 support and the debut of Zygisk. Announced by Wu via Twitter — and in a subsequent blog post — to most, the Magisk v24.0 update will undoubtedly be notable for the long-awaited…
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Realme reverses course, will bring Android 12 to its four-month-old ‘Realme Pad’ after all [U]

January 27, 2022
Android tablets are often criticized for getting too few updates and not enough long-term support. Realme, which just released its first tablet a few months ago, isn’t doing anything to help that reputation by confirming that its basically brand new Realme Pad won’t get Android 12. In an FAQ published in early January, Realme directly confirmed that the Realme Pad would not get Android 12.
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