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Google details Project Treble’s impact on Android updates, highlights Pie adoption

Last October, Google stoped providing Android distribution numbers on a consistent monthly basis. The last update was during I/O 2019 in May. Ahead of the 2019 Android Dev Summit, Google today shared a new stat that highlights Project Treble’s successful impact on Android updates. With Project Treble, Google set out to help manufacturers quickly update devices by modularizing the operating…
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Grammarly Keyboard for Android now supports swipe typing

Typos are all too common on smartphones and while many keyboards are great at fixing that, many ignore grammar mistakes. Grammarly Keyboard has been around for a while to help in that area, and now the app is  adding support for swipe typing. Swipe typing has been around on…
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Android Pie passes 20% adoption after 12 months

Google today shared that in August 2019, Android Pie had 22.6% adoption. That means the second-latest version of Android was running on a fifth of devices after some 12 months. Google did not share adoption numbers for any other Android version, including Android 10, the…
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Researchers visualize climate change with AI-generated images

Generative AI models have been co-opted to synthesize things from faces and apartments to butterflies, but a novel subcategory seeks to bring awareness to climate change by illustrating the consequences of catastrophic flooding. In an effort to establish a metric to quantify the veracity of these synthetic climate change images, researchers University of Montreal and Stanford University…
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Ultimate iPhone 11 waterproof test uses underwater drone to dive 39 feet

It’s not difficult to conduct a realistic iPhone 11 waterproof test. You could spill some beer or wine on it, to replicate the typical bar accident, or drop one in a water glass or swimming pool. But if you have access to an underwater drone, well, it has to be done, right… Apple only claims an IP68 rating the both iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro. That means they should survive being immersed in…
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iPhone 11 launch saw Apple make gains in Europe, Japan, Australia – but not US

The iPhone 11 launch saw iOS make market share gains in Europe, Australia and Japan, but it suffered a fall in share in its home market of the USA, according to Kantar. Kantar’s data for Q3 2019 includes only one week’s sales of the new iPhones, but this is enough to move the needles across the markets covered … iPhone market share made gains in all five of the biggest European markets…
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