Classic Hangouts is on its way out, though the mandatory transition for G Suite users was delayed to later this year. An update to Hangouts for Android today sees Google remove the ability to share your location.
The location sharing capability in Hangouts is very rudimentary and does not provide real-time tracking like Google Maps. Accessible underneath the text field in a conversation — next…
iOS 14 code confirms Apple planning ‘iPhone 9 Plus’ with A13 as larger version of rumored entry-level model
March 16, 2020
Several new details about the upcoming iPhone 9 based on iOS 14 code. Now we’ve discovered evidence that Apple is also working on a larger “iPhone 9 Plus” — not only an iPhone 9 — to replace both iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus. While rumors of the 4.7-inch hardware has…
Microsoft, White House, and Allen Institute release coronavirus data set for medical and NLP researchers
March 16, 2020
The COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19), a repository of more than 29,000 scholarly articles about coronavirus family viruses from around the world, is being released today for free. The result of work by Microsoft Research, the Allen Institute for AI, the National…
Samsung Galaxy S20/+ Review: Smartphones this good shouldn’t have questionable cameras
March 16, 2020
Premium smartphones have gotten really, really good over the past several years and there’s no place where that shows better than the camera. Samsung’s Galaxy S20 series continues to be the most well-rounded Android flagship on the market, but I’ve had qualms with its cameras despite being happy with the overall package. Should you buy it? Let’s talk about the Galaxy S20 and…
New OnePlus logo pops up online w/ simplified design
March 16, 2020
With its launch of the OnePlus 7T last year, the company started to revamp its brand slightly with some simplified designs. Now, it appears OnePlus is preparing to launch a new logo for 2020, and it’s leaked a bit early.
Through a Chinese patent office, OnePlus’ new…
In a preprint research paper published this week, Nvidia researchers propose an approach for human-to-robot handovers in which the robot meets the human halfway, classifies the human’s grasp, and plans a trajectory to take the object from the human’s hand. They claim it…
Nintendo will show off Switch indie games on March 17
March 16, 2020
Nintendo announced that it will host an Indie World broadcast at 10 a.m. Pacific on March 17. You can watch it here.
In the past, these video presentations have coincided with the Game Developers Conference. But even with that event cancelled this year (it would’ve started today in San Francisco), Indie World will go on. The show will be 20 minutes long.
Switch has become a hotbed for indies…
The LG V60 ThinQ went official recently but without the crucial detail of pricing. Today, LG’s carrier partners have finally revealed the LG V60’s price, though it varies wildly between carriers.
As a reminder, the LG V60 ThinQ isn’t a flagship to the tune of…
Microsoft revealed more details about its upcoming next-gen console this morning, and that includes the full Xbox Series X specs. But while it’s always fun to stare blankly at a list of gigabytes and gigahertz, let’s dive in and pick apart what matters.
Here is the full…
The COVID-19 coronavirus hasn’t stopped new devices getting unveiled. The latest is the Nokia C2, a budget Android Go-powered smartphone.
Nokia quietly launched the affordable smartphone that comes with particularly modest specifications and a price tag to match. Inside the 5.7-inch device, you’ll find a quad-core UniSoc chipset, just 1GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage (that can be…
