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First details of Motorola’s 2020 flagship leak w/ 90Hz ‘waterfall’ display

Motorola has plans to re-enter the premium smartphone space sometime in 2020, but we don’t know much about what the company has in store for this year aside from the Moto G8 series and Razr. Now, leaked photos are showing off a presumed Motorola flagship device with a fancy display and 5G connectivity. According to information obtained by , there are two upcoming Motorola phones to keep an…
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Watch a robot fold the Motorola Razr until it dies [Livestream]

As we start off 2020, more foldable smartphones are hitting the market, and the latest is from Motorola. To see just how durable it is, CNET has tasked a robot with folding the Motorola Razr until it dies, and you can watch live. This test of the Motorola Razr is using the…
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Huawei, Oppo, Vivo and Xiaomi team up to help developers port apps to their proprietary app stores

The ongoing Huawei ban saga has become a large scale game of chess with carefully calculated moves from both sides of the board. Arguably the biggest issue for Huawei right now is the lack of popular third-party apps in its App Gallery but according to a new report from , Huawei has teamed up with fellow Chinese smartphone giants Xiaomi, Vivo and Oppo to offer international developers an easier…
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Netflix has started streaming to Android in AV1

Netflix has started rolling out AV1 encoded content on the Android platform. Users will be able to watch select titles encoded in AV1 by enabling the ‘Save Data’ feature in the app. Netflix currently streams its content in a wide variety of codecs, including…
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Amazon researchers distill knowledge from a large AI model to a simplified version

In AI and machine learning systems, knowledge is typically distilled by training a small model — a student — to mimic a large and cumbersome model — a teacher. The idea is to compress the teacher’s knowledge by using its outputs as labels to optimize the student, but there’s no guarantee knowledge will be transferred to the student when the teacher is considerably large. That’s why a…
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Ubisoft’s Uplay revenue is up 73% compared to last year

Ubisoft’s sales are down significantly, but the company has some bright spots as it works to regroup. The publisher’s net bookings (which is its primary metric for measuring revenue) reached €1.117 billion ($1.226 billion) for the first nine months of the fiscal year.
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Peek-a-View iPhone app aims to protect your photos from those meddling kids

A Disney World family trip led to a developer coming up with Peek-a-View, a way to protect your photos from accidental deletion when your kids want to scroll through them. It can also be used when handing your iPhone to friends, colleagues, or clients to ensure they see only the photos you want to show them… Casey Liss explains. It all started with a trip to Disney World. We went for my…
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