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iPhone 12 Pro Max loses to OnePlus 8T in MKBHD’s blind smartphone camera test

Every year, the popular YouTuber Marques Brownlee — better known as MKBHD — shares its own blind smartphone camera test based on the choice of its followers on the web. MKBHD has just posted its 2020 blind camera test and surprisingly, iPhone 12 Pro Max lost to OnePlus 8T in the first round. The test is not scientific and it consists only in revealing which photo people think is best based…
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Quick Charge Podcast: December 2, 2020

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…
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Tesla and powerful German union prepare for a fight over Gigafactory Berlin workforce

Tesla’s effort to build a new Gigafactory near Berlin has had a few hiccups, but it seems to be going smoothly overall. However, it looks like the automaker might have to battle with IG Metall, a powerful union in Germany. Elon Musk came to Berlin earlier this week and got showered with compliments by German leaders when receiving an Axel Springer award. Tesla’s CEO appears to have been…
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Immortals: Fenyx Rising is now available on Google Stadia

Following the massive releases of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla and Watch Dogs: Legion, Ubisoft has one more major release to close out 2020. Immortals: Fenyx Rising has just arrived on Google Stadia among other platforms. Previously known as “Gods & Monsters,”…
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Bug causing ‘new Google Assistant’ functionality, UI to disappear for some Pixel 5/4 owners

The new Assistant consists of a transparent, compact UI and faster responses thanks to on-device processing. A strange bug this evening is responsible for the new Google Assistant disappearing from some Pixel 4, 4a, 4a 5G, and 5 phones. Over the past few hours, Google’s newest Pixel devices have lost the latest version of Assistant. The first indication that something has changed is when you…
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Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 888 is an AI and computer vision powerhouse

Although Apple’s latest A14 Bionic chip enabled the iPhone 12 family and iPad Air tablets to deliver impressive performance improvements, Qualcomm is making clear that the next generation of Android devices will rely heavily on advanced AI and computer vision processors to retake the performance lead. Teased yesterday at Qualcomm’s virtual Tech Summit, the Snapdragon 888 is getting a full…
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