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Realme GT 5G appears in 3C listing with 65W charging

February 19, 2021
The hype surrounding Realme’s upcoming GT 5G (aka Realme Race) is growing by the day as we await its March 4 announcement. We first reported on the Snapdragon 888-powered device back in December and now we have a listing that confirms the phone will ship with 65W charging capabilities. Realme RMX2202 listing on 3C database The info comes from China’s 3C certification agency revealing a…
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MobileNews

Clubhouse reaches 8 million downloads on the iOS App Store

February 19, 2021
Clubhouse is a new social network that has been available for a while now, but it has been getting a lot of attention in recent weeks — which has even prompted Twitter and Facebook to work on competitors for the app. A new report points out that Clubhouse, which is…
Cleantech & EV'sNews

Quick Charge Podcast: February 18, 2021

February 19, 2021
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as…
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GamingNews

Call of Duty League postpones matches due to Texas power outages

February 19, 2021
The Call of Duty League has postponed its second week of competition due to the snowstorms and subsequent power outages in Texas that have left some dead and millions without electricity. Instead, the league will combine the second and third weeks of play into a full seven days of play dubbed the Super Week. It may come as no surprise that 24 CDL players are living in Dallas alone. There’s…
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AI & RoboticsNews

MIT CSAIL taps AI to reduce sheet metal waste

February 19, 2021
Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) say they’ve created an AI-powered tool that provides feedback on how different parts of laser-cut designs should be placed onto metal sheets. By analyzing how much material is used in…
AI & RoboticsNews

DeepMind researchers say AI poses a threat to people who identify as queer

February 19, 2021
The impact of AI on people who identify as queer is an underexplored area that ethicists and researchers need to consider, along with including more queer voices in their work. That’s according to a recent study from Google’s DeepMind that looked at the positive and negative effects of AI on people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or asexual. Coauthors of a paper on the…
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