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iRobot’s Genius platform marks shift from autonomy to human-robot collaboration

Colin Angle no longer believes that full autonomy is the right approach to home robotics. That’s a remarkable statement from the CEO of iRobot, a company that for years touted its carpet-sweeping, floor-dusting Roomba’s automation as a selling point. “In my belief, the perfect robot was one you’d never have to touch — it would just go into the world and do the right thing,” Angle told…
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iOS 14: How to use the new Markup color tools on iPhone and iPad

Another one of the less-flashy improvements with iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 is revamped Markup color tools. Read along for what’s new and how to use the new iPhone and iPad Markup color tools. With iOS 13, the Markup color options were limited to one grid of choices (120 colors in total). With iOS 14 the Markup color tools have been greatly expanded with a spectrum and sliders view, an eyedropper…
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Galaxy Note 20 teardown finds graphite cooling in some phones

By most accounts, Samsung&aposs latest flagship phone, the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra, is a by the numbers release. It features all the latest hardware you would expect from a high-end phone in 2020, but doesn&apost do a lot to change the Note formula. However, in tearing…
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Drop Test: Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra’s new Gorilla glass impresses ahead of iPhone 12 launch

Corning announced its new Gorilla Glass Victus last month and Samsung is one of the first companies to use it with the new Galaxy Note 20 Ultra smartphone. In a new drop test, the latest from Gorilla Glass performed remarkably as it withstood 11 face-down 5-foot (1.5-meter) drops without a single crack on the screen while the iPhone 11 Pro Max didn’t do nearly as well. PhoneBuff tested out the…
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Android 11 Beta is now listed for the Pixel 4a

In addition to posting the factory images, the Pixel 4a can now be enrolled in the Android 11 Beta. This was promised at the start of August, and comes as the upcoming version of Android is nearing a public launch.  As of 11 a.m. PT, the Pixel 4a now appears on the…
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Total War Saga: Troy review — Island hopping my way to Troy

At turn 129 in my campaign, I realized that my journey in Total War Saga: Troy might never lead me to the windy plains of Troy. As the wronged lord Menelaus, I was flanked by a very untrustworthy Achilles on the one side and a very strong Hector, prince of Troy, and his…
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How Iron Galaxy is preserving company culture during the pandemic

Iron Galaxy has been making rough-sounding video games like Divekick, Wreckateer, and Killer Instinct since 2012, and before that, it had been making games for other companies since 2008. But underneath that tough, veteran exterior, the Chicago-based studio has been taking a kindly attitude toward its 150 employees as they work from home in the pandemic. Small game development studios and…
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