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Sony Parts Supply Shortage May Indicate AKM Factory Fire Directly Impacting Camera Industry

December 8, 2020
In late October, a massive fire completely destroyed the AKM parts factory in Japan. While mostly responsible for A/V parts manufacture, speculation that it could affect the camera industry popped up a few weeks later. A new notice of camera parts shortage from Sony appears to confirm that link. Asahi Kasei Microdevices (AKM) is responsible for producing parts that are critical to the production…
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Oppo Find X3 Pro leak reveals most important details

December 8, 2020
Oppo has already announced that its next flagship smartphone, coming out in the first three months of 2021, will be powered by the newly unveiled Snapdragon 888 chipset, but today a new leak gives us a few more details about the device. The Find X3 Pro, which is what we…
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Samsung Galaxy S21 family won't have a charger or earphones in the box, certification confirms

December 8, 2020
Remember when Apple removed the 3.5mm headphone jack and a lot of Android phone makers mocked it for the decision, only to follow suit within a few years, Samsung included? Well, here we go again. It’s already been rumored that Samsung was thinking about shipping the upcoming Galaxy S21, Galaxy S21+, and Galaxy S21 Ultra without a charger or earphones in the box, but when we heard this back…
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T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S20 series getting Android 11

December 8, 2020
Following last week’s Android 11 update for the Verizon Samsung Galaxy S20 units (minus the S20 FE), T-Mobile has now begun pushing the update for its users too. The new update also brings Samsung’s OneUI 3.0 (check out the new additions here) and weighs in at 2GB in…
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LG plans to outsource more of its low-end and mid-range phones

December 8, 2020
LG is shaking things up in its mobile division once more. It confirmed to Reuters it will increase outsourcing of its low- and mid-range smartphones. Third-party companies will design and build more of the devices, and LG will slap its label on the phones. The company still plans to make its own high-end devices. Increased outsourcing will free up more in-house research and production resources to…
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NVIDIA found a way to train AI with very little data

December 8, 2020
NVIDIA has developed a new approach for training generative adversarial networks (GAN) that could one day make them suitable for a greater variety of tasks. Before getting into NVIDIA’s work, it helps to know a bit about how GANs work. Every GAN consists of two competing…
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OnePlus reveals when the OnePlus Nord and the 8-series will stop receiving security patches

December 8, 2020
OnePlus has put up a page where you can track the status of security updates for some of its phones. Right now it appears a bit incomplete, but it does bring some good news for owners of the OnePlus Nord – it will be getting security patches until mid-2023. That’s noticeably longer than the Nord N10 and N100, which will only receive two years of security patches (so the end date should be in…
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