The LG V40 ThinQ is getting a new software update, that sports build number PKQ1.190202.011 and requires a download of around 710MB.
The new build, still based on Android 9 Pie, bumps up the Android security patch level on the V40 ThinQ to March 2020 and brings in Voice over Wi-Fi (VoWiFi) support and a native screen recorder. It also comes with Digital Wellbeing, which includes Wind Down and…
Samsung rolled out a software update for the Galaxy S10 series last week which brought One UI 2.1 to the 2019 Galaxy S smartphones. Now it’s the S10 Lite that’s getting the latest version of Samsung’s custom Android UI.
The new firmware has build number…
Oppo Ace 2 5G to have 90Hz display
April 10, 2020
Oppo is expected to launch the Ace 2 5G on April 13, and yes, you read that correctly, the Reno moniker is gone from the name. The company has been heavily teasing the phone and now is has posted some more specs online.
The Oppo Ace 2 will have a display with 90Hz refresh…
Double Eleven announced today that it has tapped Ian Ng to lead its new studio in Malaysia capital Kuala Lumpur.
Ng has over 20 years of experience working in the gaming industry, including time spent at LucasArts and Ubisoft Signapore, where he worked on the Assassin’s Creed franchise.
“After a number years of working in Bangkok and Singapore, I’m excited to make a positive impact on the…
Universal Games and Digital Platforms and Zynga are collaborating to bring more Fast & Furious cars to CSR Racing 2 mobile game. This means that cars inspired by Universal Pictures’ blockbuster movie series will appear in the game through a series of special…
Sega Europe announced that it has promoted two key executives at Creative Assembly, the United Kingdom studio behind the Total War series of real-time strategy games.
Tim Heaton will assume a new role as Sega Europe’s chief studio officer. He was formerly in a bridge role…
A team of Microsoft and Huazhong University researchers this week open-sourced an AI object detector — Fair Multi-Object Tracking (FairMOT) — they claim outperforms state-of-the-art models on public data sets at 30 frames per second. If productized, it could benefit industries ranging from elder care to security, and perhaps be used to track the spread of illnesses like COVID-19.
As the team…
After coronavirus, AI could be central to our new normal
April 10, 2020
When we came out of the financial crisis of 2008, cloud computing kicked into high gear and started to become a pervasive, transformational technology. The current COVID-19 crisis could provide a similar inflection point for AI applications. While the implications of AI…
Ferrum, a startup developing an AI patient safety platform to prevent medical errors, today announced that it secured $9 million in seed funding. According to CEO Pelu Tran, who’s also a technology pioneer at the World Economic Forum, the plan is to use the capital…
Google releases SimCLR, an AI framework that can classify images with limited labeled data
April 10, 2020
A team of Google researchers recently detailed a framework called SimCLR, which improves previous approaches to self-supervised learning, a family of techniques for converting an unsupervised learning problem (i.e., a problem in which AI models train on unlabeled data) into a supervised one by creating labels from unlabeled data sets. In a preprint paper and accompanying blog post, they say that…
