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One UI 3.0/3.1: Top new features for Galaxy devices [Video]

February 21, 2021
Samsung’s efforts to get devices updated in super-quick fashion are to be lauded, as the One UI 3.0 update has been issued far quicker than at any other time. We’ve been diving into the One UI 3.0 and 3.1 upgrades to determine just what the top new features might actually be. Unfortunately, there are a few things here that are only available as of the One UI 3.1 update rather than the…
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Android 12’s wallpaper-based theming tool showcased ahead of release [Gallery]

February 21, 2021
As we reported ahead of the first developer preview’s release, one of the big new features coming to Android 12 is advanced theming features. While these new options aren’t live in the first developer preview, one clever developer was able to give us a first look at the new theme tool coming to Android 12. Last month, we shared that Google was working on this new, in-depth theming system…
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Nintendo knocks Sony off its TV ad impressions perch

February 20, 2021
Thanks in part to an ad that aired during the Super Bowl Kickoff Show on CBS, Nintendo led gaming industry TV ad impressions during a recent 30-day period. Overall, 13 brands aired 36 spots over 3,000 times, generating 387.3 million TV ad impressions, 79.3% of which came…
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Android 12 Will Support AVIF Photos

February 20, 2021
The first preview of Android 12 has landed, and it brings news that the mobile operating system will have platform support for the AV1 Image File Format (AVIF), which has dramatically better image quality for the same file size when compared with image formats such as…
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ER Doctor Documents COVID-19 Battle in a LA Hospital with His Camera

February 20, 2021
There have been some dramatic images coming out of the coronavirus battle around the world and stateside as well. However, when a doctor attending on the patients is himself the photographer, there is a greater intimacy level involved as he understands what the caregivers and patients are undergoing. Dr. Scott Kobner is the chief ER resident at the Los Angeles County USC Medical Center, one of the…
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Google fires Ethical AI lead Margaret Mitchell

February 20, 2021
Google fired Margaret “Meg” Mitchell, lead of the Ethical AI team, today. The move comes just hours after Google announced diversity policy changes and Google AI chief Jeff Dean sent an apology in the wake of the firing of former Google AI ethics lead Timnit Gebru in late 2020. I’m fired. — MMitchell (@mmitchell_ai) February 19, 2021 Mitchell, a staff research scientist and…
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