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Amazon There will be an Amazon 12 Days of Deals event starting this Sunday, December 2, 2018. Each day will focus on a particular category, with December 10 being centered on electronics. Amazon will discount hundreds of items in each category each day, but what and by how much is a mystery for now. It might seem unbelievable, but tomorrow is the first day of December. Hopefully, you’re ready to get into holiday shopping mode, because the clock officially starts ticking tomorrow! To make things easier for you, there will be an Amazon 12 Days of Deals event happening over at Amazon.com . Starting this Sunday, December 2, 2018, Amazon will heavily discount hundreds of items within a particular category, with a new category launching each day. Editor's Pick Best Buy Christmas sale is an advent calendar stacked with tech deals Best Buy Best Buy has announced its festive, 20 Days of Doorbusters sale to celebrate the holidays. Starting tomorrow, the retail giant will

The recently launched Huawei Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro introduced fully neural on-device language translations via the Microsoft Translator app in partnership with Microsoft. The app comes pre-installed on Huawei Mate 20 devices allowing users to have native access to online quality level translations even when they are not connected to the internet. According to Microsoft, the breakthrough was achieved by customizing its neural machine translation technology for the NPU (Neural Processing Unit) in the Kirin 980 SoC that powers the Mate 20 devices. This allows the smartphones to get better and faster translations compared to existing offline packs available for other devices using the power of neural network translation without an internet connection. Microsoft uses the industry standard BLEU score to measure its translation quality. BLEU rates translation quality by comparing how close machine translations are to human ones. Offline translation quality with Microsoft Translato

In 2018,  cybercrime is an epidemic . Businesses and ordinary people are being held to ransom. We even learned last month that some U.S. weapons systems could be hacked within hours. It’s scary stuff, but we only know of the Pentagon vulnerabilities due to an ethical hacker finding the flaws. The threat is so high these days that ethical hackers  get paid big money to expose vulnerabilities. Commercial enterprises such as Facebook and Twitter pay out millions of dollars as part of bug bounty programs. It’s not too late to learn the techniques, even if you’ve never hacked before. Training can be extremely expensive, but there’s a huge deal running right now on the 2019 Ethical Hacker Master Class Bundle . This package is a collection of learning kits led by industry experts . You’ll master penetration testing, advanced persistent threats, threat intelligence research, reverse engineering, and much more. Many of the learning kits are designed to fully prepare you for certi

The Helio P60 may have been MediaTek ‘s most impressive chipset in a few years, delivering dedicated AI silicon in a mid-range processor. We’ve seen the P70 since then, but we’ve also received a sneak peek at the Helio P90 following a visit to the company’s HQ, and it’s looking like an exponential leap in terms of AI capabilities. Much like the Helio P70 and P60, we see a dual-core APU returning in the Helio P90 (clocked at 624Mhz compared to the P70’s 525Mhz). But the APU is also joined by a separate, in-house AI Accelerator chip for dedicated AI tasks. All in all, the company says this setup should provide 4x better computing power and 2x better efficiency over the P60 and P70. Read: Here’s what MediaTek is doing about slow Android updates, lack of source code The chipmaker says the Helio P90 delivers 1,127 GMACS of total AI computing power compared to the P60’s 280 GMACS and the Snapdragon 710 ‘s 614 GMACS. The upgraded APU provides 320 GMACS, but the lion’s share of power c

Best Buy Best Buy has announced its festive, 20 Days of Doorbusters sale to celebrate the holidays. Starting tomorrow, the retail giant will roll out a new deal every day and it’s promising its “lowest prices of the season.” The deals will include savings on laptops, headphones, tablets, smartphones, 4K TVs, and more. You can select which of these you’re interested in at the Best Buy website to receive a text when they’re available so you don’t miss out on any. The products that will be up for grabs have either been outright revealed — like the MacBook Pro on day one and the Apple Watch arriving on day two — or are pretty firmly hinted at. What isn’t clear, however, is how much they will be discounted. Best Buy Here’s the full list of the items — I’ve included a possible product or brand (in brackets) where we’ve been able to make a guess at what’s coming. December 1 – MacBook Pro December 2 – Apple Watch December 3 – Dyson Event December 4 – Big-screen smart 4K TV (LG) D

Google has blogged about its recent improvements in AI and photography — specifically regarding portrait mode on the Pixel 3. The post discusses how Google has improved the way its neural networks measure depth. The result is an improved bokeh effect in its portrait mode shots. Google has detailed one of the major photography accomplishments it achieved on the Pixel 3 on its AI blog . In the post published yesterday, Google discussed how it improved portrait mode between the Pixel 2 and the Pixel 3. Portrait mode is a popular smartphone photography mode that blurs the background of a scene while maintaining focus on the foreground subject (what’s sometimes called the bokeh effect). The Pixel 3 and the Google Camera app take advantage of advances in neural networks, machine learning, and GPU hardware to help make this effect even better. In Portrait Mode on the Pixel 2, the camera would capture two versions of a scene at slightly different angles. In these images, the fore

After 24 days and 23 different head-to-head matchups in our inaugural Best of Android Reader’s Choice award,  Android Authority ‘s most passionate readers have spoken. With an incredible 650,811 total votes cast, you have definitively told us your pick for the best smartphone of 2018. In case you missed the fun of the Best of Android 2018 Reader’s Choice voting, we ran a 24-phone bracket-style competition over three weeks on the site and all of our social media platforms. By voting in each day’s poll, you decided the winner of each match-up with that phone progressing to the next round. Because we had an imperfect number of contenders for a bracket competition, we granted eight first round byes to the most popular phones of the year. After that though, any phone had a chance to unseat any other head-to-head. We had some landslide victories and some very close races, but ultimately only one phone was left standing… Android Authority and its readers agree: the Samsung Galaxy Note 9