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Meizu 17 first details to be revealed on December 13

December 12, 2019
Meizu has been silent on social media since the arrival of the Meizu 16T, but once Qualcomm went official with the SD865 and SD765 chipsets, the company popped back on Weibo. It revealed the Meizu 17 will come with 5G capabilities, and today we got another teaser. The new Meizu phone is likely in its final stages of development, and the company’s profile posted a teaser, saying “How to…
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Oppo Find X2 coming in Q1 2020 with Snapdragon 865 SoC

December 12, 2019
Oppo unveiled the Find X last June with a Snapdragon 845 SoC, notch-less display, and three cameras on a sliding mechanism. We were wondering if the Chinese phone maker will announce its successor, and in a discussion with Oppo, we were told that the Find X2 is coming in…
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Algorithmia: 50% of companies spend over 3 months deploying a single AI model

December 12, 2019
Incorporating AI and machine learning technologies into everyday workflows isn’t as easy as the testimonials would have you believe. That’s the top-level finding from a survey of 750 business decision makers conducted by Algorithmia, which found that while machine learning maturity in the enterprise is generally increasing, the majority of companies (50%) spend between 8 and 90 days deploying…
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GamingNews

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

December 12, 2019
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 Fortnite, is Forza Horizon 4. It’s a racing game, so don’t expect to be building bases and trying to land…
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Twitter will now let you post iOS Live Photos as GIFs

December 11, 2019
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

December 11, 2019
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…
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Naughty Dog is donating the money from its ‘Jak and Daxter’ reissues

December 11, 2019
Early this year, to celebrate its 35th anniversary, game developer Naughty Dog did a physical reissue of its classic PS2-era Jak and Daxter games for PlayStation 4. Fans apparently loved it. The collector’s edition sold out in hours and the standard editions sold out in less than a week. Now, instead of pocketing the cash, Naughty Dog is donating all of the proceeds to a bunch of…
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