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Recommended Reading: The making of Star Wars Galaxy's Edge

November 23, 2019
A journey to Galaxy’s Edge, the nerdiest place on Earth Adam Rogers, Wired By now, even people who aren’t Star Wars fans have heard something about Galaxy’s Edge: the massive and detailed new attraction at Disneyland. Wired spoke to “Imagineers” who created the 14-acre expansion at the park to offer a glimpse at the work that went into making it a…
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Humans are responsible for the antics of our AIs

November 23, 2019
Welcome to Hitting the Books. With less than one in five Americans reading just for fun these days, we’ve done the hard work for you by scouring the internet for the most interesting, thought provoking books on science and technology we can find and delivering an…
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No, AI is not for social good

November 23, 2019
Faced with the public furor over problems with artificial intelligence, tech companies and researchers would now have us believe that the big fix for those problems is to develop AI for social good. This proposal is not new; it’s the latest in a long line of bold, mostly overreaching claims about technology’s capability to do social good. In his 2012 book The Master Switch, Tim Wu makes the…
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OnePlus reveals its second website data breach in two years

November 23, 2019
Early in 2018, popular cellphone maker OnePlus revealed it had coughed up credit card information on over 40,000 users in a data breach, and now it’s informing users of another one. This time, while the website is the source of the breach, the company believes…
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Honor V30 confirmed to ship with Kirin 990 SoC, price surfaces

November 23, 2019
The Honor V30 and V30 Pro arriving on November 26 were expected to ship with the flagship Kirin 990 SoC, and just three days ahead of the unveiling, the company has officially confirmed that the V30 series will indeed have the Kirin 990 chipset under the hood. Honor made this announcement by posting a short video clip on Weibo, and in addition to that, the company once again confirmed that the…
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New Nokia smartphone launches on December 5

November 23, 2019
HMD Global, the company that makes Nokia smartphones, has started teasing its next product, which will be officially unveiled on December 5. We know this much from the tweet you can see embedded below. Unfortunately, aside from the date and an outline of a handset, we…
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iPhone 12 Pro to sport 6GB of RAM, iPhone SE 2 production starts in February

November 23, 2019
Apple’s iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max, due to be launched in September 2020, are both going to sport 6GB of RAM, according to notes shared by Barclays analyst Blayne Curtis and his associates, who have provided reliable information in the past (though not always). For comparison’s sake, the iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max have just 4GB of RAM. On the other hand, the iPhone 12…
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