Facebook in May launched the Hateful Memes Challenge, a $100,000 competition aimed at spurring researchers to develop systems that can identify memes intended to hurt people. The first phase of the one-year contest recently crossed the halfway mark with over 3,000 entries from hundreds of teams around the world. But while progress has been encouraging, the leaderboard shows even the top-performing…
This incredible exploit could have let hackers remotely own iPhones without even touching them
December 2, 2020
Ever watch that movie, or play that video game, about the hacker who can instantly take over someone’s device without touching it at all? Those scenes are typically unrealistic as heck. But every once in a while, a real-life hack makes them seem downright plausible — a…
Nvidia AI researchers have introduced AI for generating talking heads for video conferences from a single 2D image capable of achieving a wide range of manipulation, from rotating and moving a person’s head to motion transfer and video reconstruction. The AI uses the first…
Huawei's EMUI 11 reaches 10 million users worldwide
December 2, 2020
Huawei has just announced that 10 million users across the world are using smartphones with its latest EMUI 11. The accomplishment was done in 82 days since the user interface’s announcement back in September, which is a month and a half faster than the EMUI 10 rollout.
The Emotion UI was introduced at the Huawei Developer Conference with plenty of visual changes and under-the-hood…
Exclusive: Realme "Race" is coming with the Snapdragon 888 chipset, here's what it looks like
December 2, 2020
Realme’s next flagship will be code named “Race” and will have the model number RMX2202. This can be seen in a screenshot of the About screen sent to us by a reliable source.
The Race will be powered by the Snapdragon 888 – that’s the name of Qualcomm’s new…
Honor was expected to introduce the V40 series in December but the latest reports say the brand decided to regroup and do the launch next month, in January 2021. Also, up until now, there were usually up to two phones in the yearly V lineups, but this might change and see a…
Oppo Reno5 series pictured before official announcement
December 2, 2020
Soon Oppo will unveil the new Reno5 series starting with a trio of phones. Leakster posted an image showing the three models from the front. All three have single punch hole cameras, but only two have curved screens (the one on the left has a flat screen).
The three upcoming Oppo Reno5 phones
We think these three are the Oppo Reno5 5G, Reno5 Pro 5G and Reno5 Pro+ 5G, respectively. The vanilla…
You may not remember this, but back in the day companies used to make special versions of their phones without cameras. Those were for business and government employees working in sensitive areas where cameras are banned. With today’s always-connected devices the bigger…
Oppo Find X3 series will unsurprisingly use the Snapdragon 888
December 2, 2020
Oppo may currently be very busy preparing the launch of the Reno5 series, but the Chinese company is also developing its next flagship smartphones, which are due to arrive in the first quarter of next year, according to a press release we received.
Oppo doesn’t say it…
Samsung reportedly won’t release a new Galaxy Note in 2021
December 2, 2020
Samsung’s Galaxy Note 20 may go down as the last of its line. According to Reuters, the company reportedly won’t release a new Note device in 2021. Instead, Samsung will focus its efforts on the Galaxy S and its lineup of foldable phones, made up at the moment of the Z Flip and Z Fold. To make up for the loss of a stylus-specific device, the company will reportedly make both the Galaxy S and…
