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Sony’s excellent over-ear headphones get smarter Aug 07, 2020

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Sony knows how to make a great pair of headphones. The WH-1000XM3 are one of the best received pairs of over-ear models in recent years. Two years later, the company is ready to unveil their successors, which sport a number of smart connected features. In fact, the WH-1000XM4 bring all sorts of nice upgrades to […]

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Samsung’s new Galaxy Buds Live bring active noise cancelation for $170 Aug 06, 2020

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Samsung’s made quality earbuds for a number of years now. They’re never particularly exciting or innovative, but they’re always a solid choice in an overcrowded market. Today’s big Unpacked event adds yet another model to the growing list of options. Already sporting the Galaxy Bean nickname based on early leaks, and for reasons that should […]

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YouTube bans thousands of Chinese accounts to combat ‘coordinated influence operations’ Aug 06, 2020

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YouTube has banned a large number of Chinese accounts it said were engaging in “coordinated influence operations” on political issues, the company announced today. 2,596 accounts from China alone were taken down from April to June, compared with 277 in the first three months of 2020. “These channels mostly uploaded spammy, non-political content, but a […]

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AI is struggling to adjust to 2020 Aug 05, 2020

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Identifying the new context we’re asking the system to understand is the first step towards moving visual AI forward. Then we need more content.

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Apple’s 27-inch iMac gets a processing and graphics boost Aug 05, 2020

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Apple sold a lot of Macs last quarter — a record, in fact, for Q3, jumping a full 21%, year over year. Given the state of the world, with most office workers moving to a remote setup, there’s little surprise the company’s desktop and laptops moved at such an impressive clip. For that reason alone, […]

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The 4a and 5 will be Google’s first 5G-enabled Pixels Aug 04, 2020

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Surprise. The latest version of Google’s budget Pixel device will be one of the first two to get its next-gen technology. It’s an odd strategy, to be sure, but sometimes roadmaps work out like that, I guess. You can read basically everything you need to know about the Pixel 4a in my review here. It’s […]

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Google’s budget Pixel 4a addresses its premium predecessor’s biggest problem Aug 04, 2020

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The Pixel line has always felt like more of an underdog product than one should reasonably expect from a corporation as massive as Google. After years of partnerships and Nexus devices, when Google finally did enter the smartphone market in earnest, it found itself attempting to chip away at an already mature category — an […]

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TikTok says it’s “not planning on going anywhere” in response to pending U.S. ban Aug 03, 2020

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TikTok’s U.S. General Manager Vanessa Pappas has posted a video message to the platform that appears to be a response to reports from Friday that President Trump is working on an effective “ban” of the app in the U.S., a plan he shared with reporters from the White House pool on board Air Force One. […]

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Lyft expands its rental business with Sixt partnership Aug 03, 2020

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Lyft continues to expand beyond its core ride-hailing business into bikes, scooters, transit and now rental cars. The company said Thursday that it’s taking Lyft Rentals, a pilot program that launched in December, and expanding it through a partnership with Sixt. Lyft Rentals initially gave folks in Los Angeles and San Francisco the ability to […]

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Triller sues TikTok over patent infringement Jul 31, 2020

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Social video platform Triller has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against its biggest rival TikTok and parent company ByteDance. The suit, which was filed in the U.S District Court for the Western Division of Texas, claims TikTok is infringing on Triller’s U.S Patent No. 9,691,429. The patent covers a “systems and methods for creating music […]

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