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Researchers Use Deep Learning to Add High-Quality Motion to Still Photos

Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a new deep learning method that essentially creates high-quality cinemagraphs automatically. The team says the method can animate any flowing material, including water, smoke, fire, and clouds. The researchers say that the method involves a neural network that needed to be trained to predict the future and animate what a state of flowing…
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New Honor 50 Smartphones Pack 6 Cameras, Feature Return to Google

Honor, a smartphone brand that was spun off Huawei, has announced its new 50 series devices. As part of the announcement, Honor confirms that Google’s apps will run on the devices, effectively skirting around the ban that crushed the floundering Huawei. Previously, because Honor was a brand under Huawei and was as such subject to the same restrictions under a United States ban, Google pulled…
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WhatsApp for iOS working on new Archived Chats tab

Believe it or not, Archived Chats on WhatsApp will finally be useful. The app just submitted a new beta for its iOS version on TestFlight with new features for Archived Chats. Here’s how it’s going to work. According to WABetaInfo, with WhatsApp beta version…
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OnePlus promises ‘faster and more stable’ software updates as the company merges w/ Oppo

After years of OnePlus and Oppo clearly sharing the same resources but, the former, confidently coming across as their own entity. Last year, OnePlus CEO Pete Lau took on a bigger role that involved overseeing portions of both OnePlus and Oppo, and now he’s merging more teams internally on the promise of better efficiency and faster software updates. In an official forum post today, Pete Lau…
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Google Workspace branding comes to Gmail on the web

On Monday, Google made Workspace available “for everyone” with free, personal accounts able to turn on the integrated Gmail experience with Chat and Rooms — soon to be called Spaces. Alongside that, Google Workspace branding now appears on the Gmail web client. When you load Gmail (in a new tab or after an extended period with no page refreshes), the service’s logo animates in as a red…
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