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Google Duo on Android using ‘Lyra’ to offer natural-sounding voice calls on even a 2G connection

March 3, 2021
Google has unveiled Lyra, a new technology that allows Duo, and soon other apps, to offer natural-sounding voice chat with as little as 3 kilobytes per second of network bandwidth. With so many of us still unable to visit with loved ones, video calling apps have played a key role in keeping us all connected to one another, with Google Duo and Meet hosting over 1 trillion minutes of video last…
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Rivian planning to manufacture solid-state batteries

March 3, 2021
Recent job posts on Rivian’s career page reveal the automaker is searching for manufacturing engineers to develop solid-state batteries. The five positions currently listed are all for Rivian’s Palo Alto facility in California. Solid-state batteries have been touted for…
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Volvo C40 Recharge is the latest EV with Android Automotive

March 3, 2021
Google’s car OS today is available on the Polestar 2 and Volvo XC40 Recharge, with many more vehicles coming down the road. Volvo today announced the C40 Recharge as a follow-up that also uses Android Automotive. The C40’s center console is very similar to that of the…
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Kenko Tokina forms alliance with Carl Zeiss to be its distributor for lenses and more in Japan

March 3, 2021
A Carl Zeiss Apo Sonnar 135mm F2.8 lens attached to a Sony mirrorless camera. Kenko Tokina has announced a new business alliance with Carl Zeiss that will see Kenko Tokina take over sales and repair services for Carl Zeiss products in Japan, including interchangeable photo lenses. In the announcement, made on Kenko Tokina’s website (translated), the Japanese company says the partnership will…
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Quality Match raises $6 million to build better AI datasets

March 2, 2021
Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. Quality Match, a Heidelberg, Germany-based quality data annotation provider, today announced that it raised a €5 million ($6 million) seed round from LEA Partners. The company says it’ll use the proceeds to expand its team and accelerate product development. Training AI and machine learning algorithms…
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Oppo F19 Pro and F19 Pro+ teased ahead of launch in India

March 2, 2021
The Chief Marketing Officer of Oppo India tweeted out the following teaser for the upcoming F19 Pro series. Two models are mentioned by name – Oppo F19 Pro and F19 Pro+ 5G (there should be a vanilla F19 too). We only get a vague “coming soon” for the launch date, but…
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DxOMark gives the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra a lower score than the S20 Ultra

March 2, 2021
DxOMark has finished its camera review of the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra (using an Exynos-powered unit) and the results are not good – the overall score is just 121. Not only is that low, but it’s less than the 126 points awarded to the Galaxy S20 Ultra from a year ago. Note: the S20 Ultra was retested with Version 4 of the review process, so the scores should be comparable. Let’s look at the…
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