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Apple releasing fourth developer beta of iOS 13.2 today

October 23, 2019
Apple today is releasing the fourth developer beta of iOS 13.2 and iPadOS 13.2. Today’s release comes exactly one week after the release of the third iOS 13.2 beta with Deep Fusion camera technology, Siri changes, and more. Deep Fusion is Apple’s new camera processing technology that works in the background to improve image quality for iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro users. In addition to Deep…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Stanford institute calls for $120 billion investment in U.S. AI ecosystem

October 23, 2019
The Stanford University Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence is calling for the U.S. government to make a $120 billion investment in the nation’s AI ecosystem over the course of the next 10 years. The report calls efforts by the Trump administration, like the call for near $1 billion in U.S. non-defense research and development spending in 2020, “encouraging, but not nearly…
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GamingNews

Steam September top 20: Gears 5, Spyro, and NBA 2K20

October 23, 2019
Today, Valve released the list of the top 20 best-performing new game releases on Steam for September. The company has also highlighted some important themes. Gaming fans continue to show up to Steam for a wide variety of releases, but some categories are performing…
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Google details Project Treble’s impact on Android updates, highlights Pie adoption

October 23, 2019
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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MobileNews

Grammarly Keyboard for Android now supports swipe typing

October 23, 2019
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

October 23, 2019
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…
AI & RoboticsNews

Researchers visualize climate change with AI-generated images

October 23, 2019
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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