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Apple iPhone 11 unsurprisingly found just as durable as iPhone 11 Pro

September 30, 2019
It’s time to round off the physical endurance of Apple’s latest crop of iPhones with the JerryRig iPhone 11 durability video. Here’s the gist of it – the glass on the iPhone 11 begins to scratch at a level 6 on Mohs scale of hardness and the body doesn’t bend or crack – just like the iPhone 11 Pro. The stainless steel frame of the Pro is harder to scratch than…
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iWork for iOS updated to take advantage of iOS 13 and iPadOS 13

September 30, 2019
Apple has released updated versions of its iWork apps for iPhone and iPad to take advantage of new features that are available with iOS 13 and iPadOS 13. New features for the iWork iOS suite include Dark Mode support, external drive support, multitasking support in iPadOS…
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Apple releasing first developer beta of iOS 13.1.2 today

September 30, 2019
Apple today is releasing the first developer beta of iOS 13.1.2 to the public. This comes after the release of iOS 13.1.1 to the public last week with several notable bug fixes and performance improvements. Apple has been swiftly releasing new iOS 13 updates recently. Friday’s release of iOS 13.1.1 included bug fixes for battery drain, Siri, third-party…
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This app can now change your wallpaper based on Android 10’s dark theme

September 30, 2019
Android 10’s dark theme is a handy way to turn most apps on your device from a blinding white to a darker gray. However, it lacks any features beyond that. Now, one app is making it possible to switch your wallpaper based on the Android 10 dark theme. “Automatic Dark Theme for Android 10” is an app we’ve covered here on  before for its handy ability to…
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Google’s highly scalable AI can generate convincingly humanlike speech

September 30, 2019
A generative adversarial network (GAN) is a versatile AI architecture type that’s exceptionally well-suited to synthesizing images, videos, and text from limited data. But it’s not much been applied to the audio production domain owing to a number of design challenges, which is why Google and Imperial College London researchers set out to create a GAN-based text-to-speech system capable of…
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