Google hopes to tap AI and machine learning to make speedy local weather predictions. In a paper and accompanying blog post, the tech giant detailed an AI system that uses satellite images to produce “nearly instantaneous” and high-resolution forecasts — on average, with a roughly one kilometer resolution and a latency of only 5-10 minutes. The researchers behind it say it outperforms…
Download the leaked Samsung Galaxy S20 wallpapers here [Gallery]
January 13, 2020
The Samsung Galaxy S20 leaks are starting to ramp up and after the images, we now have the official S20 wallpapers and video wallpapers that you can download and adorn on your device right now…
While we have a little bit longer to wait for the devices to get an official…
YouTube lures three more top streamers away from Twitch
January 13, 2020
Twitch is once again losing some big-name streamers to YouTube. Lannan “LazarBeam” Eacott, Elliott “Muselk” Watkins and Rachell “Valkyrae” Hofstetter (above) have announced that they’ll livestream exclusively on Google’s video…
Ubisoft’s scientists have done the unthinkable and combined the two biggest new gaming genres of the last few years. The publisher revealed today that it plans to release Might & Magic: Chess Royale for mobile and PC on January 30. As the name suggests, it mixes together elements of auto battlers (think Auto Chess) and battle royale games (PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and Fortnite).
In…
Android Auto app has been downloaded 100 million times
January 13, 2020
Five years after its launch, Google’s Android Auto recently passed a milestone. On the Play Store, the Android Auto app has been downloaded 100 million times (via ).
Some of Google’s apps on Android have upwards of 1 billion downloads…
For the past several months, there’s been an ongoing project at Google that’s never been announced: Android’s version of AirDrop. We first broke the news, and now, Google has apparently renamed the Android feature to “Nearby…
Xiaomi demoes a 144Hz mode for the Redmi K30 5G
January 13, 2020
Just last month the first Redmi phone with a high refresh rate screen came out, the Redmi K30 and its 5G variant had 120Hz IPS LCD panels. That may not be the best that the K30 can do Xiaomi VP Lu Weibing posted a video of the Redmi K30 5G screen running at 144Hz.
The VP says that this was a test in the laboratory and did not specify whether the company will release an official update that will…
TCL and is heading to Barcelona to introduce its latest smartphones and technologies at MWC 2020. The company sent out invitations to media all over the world, revealing it will have a press conference on February 2020 at exactly 18:00 local time.
The event is taking place…
Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple set to sell 80-85M iPhones with 5G
January 13, 2020
Reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has published a note in which he predicts that Apple will release four 5G-connected iPhone models and sell plenty of them. Previously there were speculations that Cupertino will launch sub-6GHz models first and delay the mmWave phones for…
OnePlus is starting to dribble out details for its next phones, and it’s starting with the feature you probably care about the most: the screen. The company’s upcoming, Samsung-made 120Hz Fluid Display (not pictured) is faster than the 90Hz of the 7 series and thus better at handling motion, but that’s just supposedly the start. The AMOLED panel packs a slew of custom design…
