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Google signs news partnership with WSJ and other UK, Australian News Corp publications

February 17, 2021
Ahead of upcoming Australian legislation that would require payment for linking, Google signed a three-year partnership with News Corp that will bring publications from three countries into News Showcase. Among the News Corp publications joining Google News Showcase will be the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch, and the New York Post; in the UK: the Times, the Sunday Times, and the…
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AI can persuade people to make ethically questionable decisions, study finds

February 17, 2021
AI shapes people’s lives on a daily basis. It sets prices in retail stores and makes recommendations ranging from movies to romantic partners. But it’s an open question whether AI can become a trusted advisor or even a corrupting force, influencing people’s behavior potentially to the point where they break ethical rules. A fascinating study published by researchers at the University of…
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MobileNews

Android 12’s internal dessert name to be Snow Cone, may feature one-handed mode

February 17, 2021
As reported by , the next version of Android could be internally referred to as Android ‘Snow Cone”. Granted, Google no longer gives its Android releases dessert names as official names of Android versions, but every version’s internal code contains abbreviations that refer to the Android version. Although Google has not officially confirmed this name, reports that Google’s yet-to-be…
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Oppo patents a smartphone with a selfie camera sliding sideways

February 17, 2021
Oppo is no stranger to moving cameras on its phones – from the N1 all the way back in 2013 to the Find X slider and the Reno 10x zoom with its sharkfin. But despite sticking to more conventional designs for the past two years it’s still considering some interesting ideas. Thanks to a dig by , we know the Chinese company has patented a sideways sliding selfie camera that goes from one…
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