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China wants to save kids’ eyes by cutting down on video games

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by on August 31, 2018 at 4:20 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, gaming


This week, Chinese president Xi Jinping and the Ministry of Education announced they’d be making it even harder for video games to get to the Chinese market — and the cause is the increase in Chinese children who need glasses. The Ministry has since released a comprehensive plan to tackle childhood myopia. Most of the stuff it mentions is innocuously helpful, such as using PSAs and improving the education of optometrists. But in its call to action for the rest of the government, it slipped in a message to the State Press and Publication Administration to regulate the number of online…

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Huawei’s AI Cube smart speaker packs Alexa and a 4G modem (and isn’t actually a cube)

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by on August 31, 2018 at 3:59 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


Amazon’s Alexa is a bit like the consumer tech version of herpes (but in a good way). Like any highly contageous condition, it’s spreading rapidly, finding new devices to infect. Anker, for example, has managed to shoehorn Amazon’s AI voice assistant into a USB car charger and a Bluetooth speaker. Not to be outdone is Chinese tech megabrand Huawei, which today announced its latest Alexa-powered smart speaker, the AI Cube, at Berlin’s IFA 2018 tech trade show. The AI Cube is a really bloody weird one. Firstly, because it’s not shaped like a cube. Yes, you read that right. Like…

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Qualcomm’s new aptX Adaptive codec promises better sounding lag-free Bluetooth audio

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by on August 31, 2018 at 11:57 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


Good news for fans of wireless audio gear: Qualcomm has unveiled its new aptX Adaptive codec, which promises support for high-quality audio content, as well as improved performance over Bluetooth. It essentially combines the strengths of its previously released codecs, which means that it can deliver 24-bit audio (as opposed to 16-bit, like the original aptX and Low Latency codecs), and also reduces delays in transmission so your audio and video is perfectly in sync. In addition, it can also adjust performance on-the-fly for the best possible experience depending on things like external interference with the RF signal between your…

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Line launches its own cryptocurrency and blockchain network

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by on August 31, 2018 at 11:18 am
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Line is growing its presence in the cryptocurrency universe in a big way. A month after launching its own cryptocurrency exchange desk BITBOX, the Tokyo-based messaging titan has now launched its own cryptocurrency called ‘LINK’ alongside a blockchain network called ‘LINK Chain’. In an announcement made on its website, Line says there will be no initial coin offering (ICO) for the LINK tokens, which will be available only as rewards for using decentralized applications (dApps) within the Line ecosystem. The LINK token will become available on BITBOX exchange desk in September. A total of one billion LINK tokens will be…

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