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All iPhone 11 cases on sale, plus new lows on 10.2-inch iPad and 15% off iTunes credit

November 5, 2019
Apple’s official iPhone 11 cases are all on sale at Amazon, plus the new 10.2-inch iPad has hit a fresh all-time low price. We’re also seeing discounted iTunes gift cards today. Hit the jump for all that and more in the latest 9to5Toys Lunch Break. Amazon is now offering near all-time low prices on Apple’s latest iPhone 11/Pro/Max cases from $28. There are multiple colors available in…
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Google’s Pigeon crowdsourced transit app adds five more cities, Android waitlist

November 5, 2019
Last year, Google’s Area 120 incubator introduced a Waze-like crowdsourcing app for public transit in New York City. Pigeon for iOS is now available in five more US cities, while an Android app is coming. Launched September 2018, Pigeon is a “crowdsourced transit app that provides better real-time information for riders, by riders, to give people around the world access to accurate transit…
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MobileNews

AnTuTu announces the best performing Android phones in October

November 5, 2019
AnTuTu released its latest top 10 lists for the best performing phones for October. Previously the benchmarking tool only revealed the top flagship phones but now there is a separate top 10 list for the midrange segment as well. The compiled results are based on the average…
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NVIDIA's AI will help USPS handle packages 10 times faster

November 5, 2019
The US Postal Service (USPS) delivers an estimated 146 billion pieces of mail annually, including 6 billion packages. In an attempt to process package data more efficiently, USPS is experimenting with AI. Today, NVIDIA announced that it will provide USPS with its AI tech.
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NVIDIA's AI will help USPS handle packages 10 times faster

November 5, 2019
The US Postal Service (USPS) delivers an estimated 146 billion pieces of mail annually, including 6 billion packages. In an attempt to process package data more efficiently, USPS is experimenting with AI. Today, NVIDIA announced that it will provide USPS with its AI tech. NVIDIA claims its system will process package data 10-times faster and with higher accuracy. For months, engineering teams…
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GamingNews

Bandai takes a cue from Nintendo in its new DIY kit for kids

November 5, 2019
Kids today are growing up with a lot of screens in their lives, despite the advice of pediatricians. One of the things they get a lot less of in playing with devices is the development of more tactile skills, which are usually learned by manipulating toys and other physical…
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Facebook details wav2vec, an AI algorithm that uses raw audio to improve speech recognition

November 5, 2019
Automatic speech recognition, or ASR, is a foundational part of not only assistants like Apple’s Siri, but dictation software such as Nuance’s Dragon and customer support platforms like Google’s Contact Center AI. It’s the thing that enables machines to parse utterances for key phrases and words and that allows them to distinguish people by their intonations and pitches. Perhaps it goes…
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