Apple follows Spotify and announces its own music awards

It seems that Apple is quite enjoying its foray into the entertainment industry. After launching its Apple TV+ streaming service with some high-profile shows, the company has now announced the Apple Music Awards. The awards are a mix of choices from editors and experts and the number of streams on Apple Music platforms. While Global Artist of the Year, Songwriter of the Year and, Breakthrough Artist of the Year awards are picked by a jury, Album of the Year and Song of the Year are picked by data. The company has already announced winners which include names like Billie Eilish, Lizzo, and Lil Nas…

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Amazon unveils musical AI keyboard that teaches humans about machine learning

Last night, Amazon announced an AI-powered musical keyboard called for developers at its re:Invent 2019 conference in Las Vegas. The keyboard, called AWS Deepcomposer, is available in physical and emulator form for folks to try their hand at machine learning. It has 32-keys in two octaves and pre-trained AI models in classical, jazz, rock, or pop genres to get started. You can use a pre-recorded tune or record one of your own, and then select parameters and validation sample for the model. It’ll then produce a tune based on the genre and parameters. Once you get comfortable with using Deepcomposer, you can train your own…

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Samsung’s new mid-range smartphone series set to launch next week

Samsung introduced the Galaxy A 2019 series back in February. Naturally, it was assumed that the company would refresh the lineup in February 2020. However, it looks like Samsung is jumping the gun and releasing the Galaxy A 2020 series as soon as next week.

Samsung Vietnam has put out a video teasing the launch of the Galaxy A 2020 series on December 12. The video doesn’t reveal much about the new A series phones, but shows a device with a centered punch-hole on the display.

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If leaks are anything to go by, the Galaxy A51 could be the first phone in the new Galaxy A 2020 series. The phones is the rumored successor to 2019’s Galaxy A50, which we dubbed Samsung’s best mid-ranger at the time.

An exclusive report from 91Mobiles previously revealed that Samsung will launch the mid-range Galaxy A51 in India in December. The Galaxy A51 has also been spotted in an FCC listing and its renders were leaked last month. The phone was seen featuring an Infinity-O display, similar to the one seen in the new Galaxy A 2020 teaser.

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The Galaxy A51 is rumored to feature a 6.5-inch OLED display. The back of the device will reportedly feature an L-shaped quad-camera camera array. This setup is expected to house a 48MP sensor and a 5MP macro lens. A 32MP selfie camera is expected on the device.

Other rumored specs include 4GB RAM, the Exynos 9611 SoC, 4,000mAh battery, and 64/128GB storage variants.

Other Galaxy A 2020 series phones

Samsung is tipped to release around eight phones in the Galaxy A 2020 series. These include the Galaxy A71 with four cameras, Galaxy A91 with Snapdragon 855, Galaxy A21, Galaxy A31, Galaxy A61, and the Galaxy A81.

What do you expect from Samsung’s new mid-rangers? Let us know in the comments section below.

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Watch: Gaming with Vivo V17 Pro, good or not?

Apart from its beautiful all-screen AMOLED display with full HD resolution, 48MP quad-camera system, and the 32MP pop-up dual-selfie camera, Vivo claimed that the Vivo V17 Pro can also game.

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To recall, the Vivo V17 Pro is a handset packed with the 11nm 2.0GHz Snapdragon 675 octa-core chip with Adreno 612 GPU. Vivo also added 8GB RAM for multitasking.

While the SoC and RAM weren't upgraded, Vivo added a speedier 128GB UFS 2.1 storage to make your apps and games load faster.

Vivo also noted that it has added some tweaks in its software to make the gaming experience better.

Moreover, this device now has a large 4,100mAh battery coming from just 3,700mAh.

In addition, V17 Pro has a larger 6.44-inch 20:9 cinematic AMOLED display to let you have a better viewing experience.

We tried some graphic intensive games like the NBA 2K20 and the new Call of Duty Mobile and we never had issues on their gameplay.

AND yes, we loaded those games on max settings.

The temperature of its CPU remained at an acceptable level even after playing for quite some time.

We also like that it has the Ultra Game Mode feature.

It has  Game Assistant to enable pop-up for game-related optimizations, game slider for quick controls, allow to enjoy hands-free background calls, reject calls, block notifications, and more.

Our thoughts

The result? At PHP 21,999, for us, the Vivo V17 Pro is a respectable gaming phone despite not having a more powerful chipset.

For the full specs of Vivo V17 Pro, read here.

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Apple Shares the 'Best of 2019' Highlighting Top Apps and Games, Plus First Apple Music Awards

Apple today hosted an event in New York City where the company announced its annual "best of" lists, highlighting the best apps and games of the year, along with sharing details on the musical artist of the year and the top song through the new Apple Music Awards.


After sharing details with members of the media, Apple released all of its top picks in a new article available on its Apple Newsroom site.

This year, Apple is recognizing its favorite apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, and Mac, and there's a new Apple Arcade category.

- ‌Apple Arcade‌ Game of the Year - Sayonara Wild Hearts by Simogo (Apple Arcade)
- ‌iPhone‌ App of the Year - Spectre Camera by Lux Optics ($2.99)
- ‌iPhone‌ Game of the Year - Sky: Children of the Light by thatgamecompany (Free)
- ‌iPad‌ App of the Year - Flow by Moleskine (Free)
- ‌iPad‌ Game of the Year - Hyper Light Drifter by Abylight S.L. ($4.99)
- Mac App of the Year - Affinity Publisher by Serif Labs ($49.99)
- Mac Game of the Year - GRIS by Devolver / Nomada Studio ($4.99)
- ‌Apple TV‌ App of the Year - The Explorers by The Explorers Network ($4.99)
- ‌Apple TV‌ Game of the Year - Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap by DotEmu ($7.99)

Apple has also announced the first ever ‌Apple Music‌ Awards, likely meant to be similar to other music awards like the VMAs and and AMAs. Apple has named Billie Eilish its Global Artist of the Year and the Songwriter of the Year along with her brother Finneas. Lizzo is Apple's breakthrough Artist of the Year, and the Song of the Year is "Old Town Road" by Lil Nas X. All of the winning artists are receiving a special Apple-designed award.

Apple plans to hold a live awards ceremony at the Steve Jobs Theater on the Apple Park Campus on Wednesday, December 4 at 6:30 p.m. The event will include a live performance by Billie Eilish, and it will be live streamed so Apple customers can watch.

‌Apple Music‌ will celebrate the inaugural ‌Apple Music‌ Awards with a bespoke performance from Billie Eilish at the Steve Jobs Theater at ‌Apple Park‌. The show will be unlike anything ever seen from this unanimously crowned Artist of the Year. This exclusive event will be streamed live around the world on December 4 at 6:30 p.m. PST.

Apple's full article has a more complete list of details on all of the apps and games that were highlighted, along with more information on the Apple Music Awards.


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