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Apple supplier BOE making OLED screens for iPhone 12 – report

Apple Supplier BOE is making OLED screens for the iPhone 12, according to a supply-chain report. Although BOE has long made LCD screens for Apple, and later graduated to making OLED ones for the Apple Watch, it will be the first time the Chinese company has made OLED screens for iPhones. When Apple first switched to OLED for flagship iPhones in the form of the iPhone X, Samsung was the iPhone…
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Verizon and Nokia are building private 5G networks for businesses

Verizon will work with Nokia to create private 5G installations that can replace WiFi in large “manufacturing, distribution and logistics facilities,” the company announced. The idea would be not to enhance existing public 5G networks, but to create private and customized on-site mobile networks. Companies could then use them to communicate, connect to business apps and more. The private 5G…
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PhiSat-1 satellite uses AI to remove clouds from Earth images

Intel, the European Space Agency (ESA), and startup Ubotica today announced details of what they claim is the first AI-powered satellite to orbit the Earth. The product of a three-year development cycle, the organizations say the CubeSat — PhiSat-1 — could solve a challenge the space industry has faced for years: Photos from satellites are often obscured by clouds. Clouds comprise about 70% of…
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Nikon Z 24-50mm F4-6.3 sample gallery

The Nikkor Z 24-50mm F4-6.3 is Nikon’s most compact and affordable ($400 MSRP) lens for full-frame Z-mount cameras. It’s also one of two lenses available as a kit with the excellent, entry-level Nikon Z5 body, and collapses down to a mere 51mm (2″) when…
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4iQ raises $30 million for AI that attacks the trade in stolen digital identities

Digital identity protection startup 4iQ today announced a $30 million round it will use to ramp up investments in its go-to-market activities. The funding comes as 4iQ brings former Waterline Data head Kailash Ambwani on as CEO. Over 300 data breaches involving the theft of 100,000 or more records occurred between 2005 and 2014, Forbes reports. Data breaches exposed 4.1 billion records in the…
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