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Verizon is giving away Android TV boxes to home 5G subscribers

November 13, 2019
You probably didn’t notice it, but Verizon (Engadget’s parent company) has a dedicated media player of its own. The carrier quietly released a Stream TV device meant to court 5G Home subscribers who’ve figuratively and literally cut the television cord. It’s really a straightforward Android TV device with support for 4K video, Chromecast streaming and a Google…
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GitHub launches iOS app, Android app coming in 2020

November 13, 2019
Popular project collaboration tool GitHub today announced a range of upgrades for programmers and developers working together including the launch of a smartphone app for iOS smartphones and iPads. An Android app will be released in early 2020, GitHub VP of engineering Dana…
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Google Cloud launches AI-driven management platform to tame network complexity

November 13, 2019
Google Cloud today announced the public launch of its Network Intelligence Center, a platform that uses AI to help manage the sprawling networks companies must wrangle as they move more of their critical operations online. As cloud computing evolves, companies increasingly have several cloud services, and in some cases hybrid ones that blend premise-based services with virtual ones. While…
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Graphcore’s AI accelerator chips launch on Microsoft Azure

November 13, 2019
Graphcore, a U.K.-based company developing accelerators for AI workloads, this morning announced a milestone: Its Intelligence Processing Units (IPUs) have launched on Azure. It marks the first time a large-scale cloud vendor — Microsoft — has made publicly available Graphcore’s chips. IPUs on Azure are open for customer sign-up, Graphcore says, with access prioritized for those “focused…
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More live images of Motorola’s Razr foldable arrive alongside official teaser

November 13, 2019
Motorola is hosting an event later today to unveil its first foldable smartphone following a collection of leaks earlier this month. Now, Motorola has confirmed the design on Twitter with a Razr teaser right as FCC images show off the live design again. An FCC listing for the Motorola Razr went live early showing off several images of the device from the outside  the…
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