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You can now mirror and control your iPhone on a Dell PC

March 25, 2020

We learned back in January that Dell was working on a feature that would allow you to control your iPhone from one of the company’s Windows PCs, and that ability is now available … If you’re an iPhone user with a modern Dell computer, you can now mirror your phone’s screen to your PC and control it using Dell’s Mobile Connect app. Version 3 of the iOS app lets you control your phone…

Nintendo Switch Pro doesn’t need 4K — it needs HDR, 120Hz, and an SSD

March 25, 2020

Nintendo says it has no plans to release a new model of its hybrid home/handheld Switch system this year. But president Shuntaro Furukawa said something similar in an interview in January 2019, and then company launched the Switch Lite in September. But even if the next…

The ending of Doom Eternal

March 25, 2020

I’ll give it to the developers at id Software. They really know how to stretch out an ending. I’ve played through Doom Eternal on the easy setting, and I’ve included two videos of the actual ending in this post. And it feels like he ending goes on for a long time…

Doom Eternal has the best launch weekend in franchise history

March 25, 2020

Bethesda announced today that Doom Eternal has had the best launch weekend of any game in the franchise’s history. The publisher did not specify how many copies it sold, but Bethesda did note that the launch weekend doubled the launch weekend revenue for the last entry in the series, 2016’s Doom. That game came out in May, and by July it had sold 2 million copies on PC. Bethesda also revealed…

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DarwinAI wants to help identify coronavirus in x-rays, but radiologists aren’t convinced

March 25, 2020

Canadian startup DarwinAI and researchers from the University of Waterloo are open-sourcing COVID-Net, a convolutional neural network made for detecting COVID-19 in x-ray imagery. Since coronavirus emerged as a threat to people around the world, a global community of…

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Google details MetNet, an AI model better than NOAA at predicting precipitation

March 25, 2020

In a blog post and accompanying paper, researchers at Google detail an AI system — MetNet — that can predict precipitation up to eight hours into the future. They say that it outperforms the current state-of-the-art physics model in use by the U.S. National Oceanic and…

Xiaomi postpones the launch of Mi 10 in India due to COVID-19

March 25, 2020

Last week Xiaomi announced that it will launch the Mi 10 in India on March 31, but the company has now announced that the launch has been postponed until further notice due to the COVID-19 outbreak in the country. This decision comes after Indian Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi imposed a 21-day nationwide lockdown in India to contain the spread of COVID-19, which claimed the lives of 11 people…

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Google’s AI helps robots navigate around humans in offices

March 25, 2020

In a study published this week on the preprint server Arxiv.org, Google and University of California, Berkely researchers propose a framework that combines learning-based perception with model-based controls to enable wheeled robots to autonomously navigate around obstacles.

OnePlus is seeking beta testers for its Instant Translation feature

March 25, 2020

Thanks to the recent OxygenOS Open Beta program, the new Instant Translation feature is now available for the OnePlus 7 series and 7T series. While it has come bundled with the latest beta update for the flagship devices, OnePlus is now seeking beta testers to thoroughly put…

YouTube's Android app will get a default video quality setting in upcoming update

March 25, 2020

An upcoming version of the YouTube app for Android will let you set a preferred video quality for streaming. This feature was discovered in APK version 15.12.33 and given the all-caps “BETA” notes next to the new toggles, it seems that there might be a few bugs left to iron out. Currently, YouTube has a default video quality that is set server-side. Speaking of, Google decided…