MobileNews

Oppo A11 to arrive in China with 48 MP camera

October 1, 2019
The Oppo A5 (2020) arrived on in India back in September and now a similar device is launching in China, although with a different name. The Oppo A11 appeared in China Telecom listings with a price tag and key specs, and the main differences compared to the A5 are the main camera and the selfie shooter – the body remains the same. Oppo A11 The images reveal a device with a 6.5” screen…
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GamingNews

Warface scores 13 million users on PS4 and Xbox One in a year

October 1, 2019
My.Games‘ first-person shooter online game Warface is celebrating its first anniversary on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One today, and the Russian company said it has 13 million players on the consoles so far. That’s a solid addition to the Warface audience, which now…
MobileNews

Latest Google Messages beta follows Android 10 dark theme

October 1, 2019
While Google Messages adopted a dark theme relatively early on, its implementation did not match other first-party applications. With the latest beta, Google’s default SMS/RCS client now respects the Android 10 dark theme. To turn on the night-friendly look, Google Messages in the past required users to visit the overflow menu in the top-right corner and hit “Enable dark mode.” The…
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GamingNews

Google releases new #SwitchtoPixel ads anticipating Pixel 4

October 1, 2019
Google is set to announce the Pixel 4 and 4 XL on October 15 and the phone has already leaked on several previous occasions. The latest few ads posted by Google are touting the Pixel’s various features. The #SwitchtoPixel campaign consists of four videos released on the…
MobileNews

Twitter is rolling out its abuse filter for Direct Messages to everyone on iOS

October 1, 2019
After testing out its new abuse and spam filter for Direct Messages for the past two months, Twitter is now rolling out the new feature to all users. The social network will now filter suspect, offensive, and inappropriate messages in a more efficient way starting today. Users will see a new option in the Message Requests menu that handles Direct Messages sent by unknown people. These…
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AI & RoboticsNews

IBM’s AI generates high-quality voices from 5 minutes of talking

September 30, 2019
Training powerful text to speech models requires sufficiently powerful hardware. A recent study published by OpenAI drives the point home — it found that since 2012, the amount of compute used in the largest runs grew by more than 300,000 times. In pursuit of less demanding models, researchers at IBM developed a new lightweight and modular method for speech synthesis. They say it’s able to…
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