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OnePlus 7 and 7 Pro get November security patch with OxygenOS 10.0.3

OnePlus has started sending out a brand new software update to its devices from the first half of 2019 – the OnePlus 7 and 7 Pro. Both of these are now in the process of receiving OxygenOS 10.0.3, and we’ll warn you straight from the get-go that this isn’t a huge update. It’s basically only packing some unnamed improvements for system stability, general bug fixes, and…
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GamingNews

'Forza Horizon 4' is getting a 72-car battle royale mode

Are video games legal any more if they don’t have a battle royale mode? Even Civilization VI joined the fray a few months back. The latest game to hop into the battle royale arena, including the shrinking play area popularized by PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and…
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Twitter will now let you post iOS Live Photos as GIFs

Live Photos are one of Apple’s signature camera options on iOS, making your photos look like one of the living photographs in Harry Potter. But if you’ve tried to post that Live Photo on Twitter, it would render as a still photo, taking away some of that magic. You could…
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Twitter lets you upload iOS Live Photos as GIFs at last

Twitter is offering iOS users another way to get more out of Live Photos by letting you turn them into GIFs “anywhere you upload photos on Twitter.” It’s not clear whether this’ll work for Pixel motion photos as well. Engadget has asked Twitter for clarification. Give the gift of GIFs. You can now upload your iOS Live Photos as GIFs anywhere you upload photos on…
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GamingNews

Forza Horizon 4 gets Eliminator battle royale mode

The Eliminator is coming to Forza Horizon 4. While that might sound like a 1980s vehicle-based TV action series, it’s actually the game’s new free battle royale. This is part of Microsoft’s continued efforts to support the open-world driving game with regular content…
AI & RoboticsNews

Microsoft’s FastSpeech AI speeds up realistic voices generation

State-of-the-art text-to-speech models can produce snippets that sound nearly human-like on first listen. In point of fact, they underpin the neural voices available through Google Assistant, as well as the newscaster voice that recently came to Alexa and Amazon’s Polly service. But because most of the models share the same synthesis approaches in common — this is, they generate a…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Sproutt raises $12 million to find your best life insurance policy with AI

Life insurance isn’t as popular as it once was, despite the fact that a majority of people consider it to be important. Over 80% of consumers agreed in a recent survey that people need a life insurance policy, yet just 62% say they have one themselves. In fact, only 44% of U.S. households held individual life insurance as of 2010 — a 50-year low — compared with the 72% of Americans who owned…
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