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Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra teardown shows off the phone’s huge 108-megapixel sensor

iFixit has posted its teardown of Samsung’s new Galaxy S20 Ultra, and it reveals that the 108-megapixel camera sensor is, as you might expect, really big. You can get an idea of just how large the sensor is when you compare it to the iPhone 11 Pro’s 12-megapixel primary camera sensor, which iFixit did in the below photo: Image: iFixit As iFixit rightly points out, though, a bigger…
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Uber details VerCD, the AI tech powering its self-driving cars

Uber, which hasn’t publicly discussed the architecture of its autonomous car platform in great detail, today published a post laying out the technologies that enable engineers within its Advanced Technologies Group (ATG) to test, validate, and deploy AI models to cars. It gives a glimpse into the complexities of self-driving car development generally, and perhaps more importantly, it serves as a…
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Google releases Android 11 patch with Developer Preview 1.1

The Android 11 Developer Preview launched two weeks ago with six releases scheduled before the Q3 2020 launch. Google today announced a “patch” for Android 11 that’s being referred to as DP 1.1. Slotting in between the first and second previews, this update provides bug fixes and improvements following early developer feedback: Privacy: Apps targeting Android 11 no longer receive an…
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New jailbreak hack lets you run Android on your iPhone 7

The Correlium team has today released a beta of a work-in-progress hack to get the Android operating system running on the iPhone. Using the checkra1n jailbreak exploit to gain access to the bootloader of older iPhone models, Project Sandcastle lets you install a…
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Facebook reveals the AI tool it used to ban 6.6 billion fake accounts

Today, Facebook unveiled a machine learning tool that, in the last year, has removed more than six billion fake accounts. That’s in addition to the millions of new fake accounts that Facebook blocks from being created daily. According to Facebook, the tool has been in production for two years and it’s one of the most advanced methods Facebook has for fighting bogus accounts. The…
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