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Some Android aficionados have wondered if Google lowered the display brightness to compensate for the battery, and lo and behold, there's a high-brightness mode hidden in the settings.

AMD's Ryzen 9 3950X, 24-core, and 32-core Threadripper CPUs are all dropping on November 25, with 3950X reviews on November 14. Also, there's a new pint-sized part for the low-end CPU market.

Grab this Pay What You Want: Cisco Networking and Cloud Computing Certification Bundle while you can and start brushing up on your skills.

The carrier will light up its nationwide 5G network on December 6th, promising coverage for 200 million Americans in over 5,000 cities and towns at launch. It's also announcing several new initiatives most likely aimed at increasing support for its upcoming acquisition of Sprint which some states are still fighting.

Big trucks are going to battery-electric and hydrogen-fuel-cell-electric. Slowly. California (and Europe and Asia) want to curb pollution. Batteries weigh a lot, so BEV trucks are a surer bet for local and regional hauling.

Uber faced serious questions in 2018 when one of its experimental autonomous vehicles killed a pedestrian during testing. A National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) report claims that Uber's self-driving technology simply wasn't able to understand jaywalking pedestrians.

New data from the MLPerf benchmark is available for a wide variety of devices. Building new AI/ML benchmarks is essential to testing the performance of these devices.

A Florida court has set a potentially troubling precedent by allowing police to access one of these online databases in full, even if users opted out of law enforcement searches.

The Surface Pro X is out, but early reviews of the platform are decidedly mixed. Windows on ARM continues to underperform.

Nvidia continues to make major strides in delivering AI to devices of all sizes. Its new Xavier NX module squeezes large-device performance into a tiny, low-power, form factor at a decent price.

Mozilla is reportedly working on a fix for this issue, but users with less technical knowledge may be unable to get rid of the locked page even after restarting the browser.

Google released new monthly patches for its phones yesterday, and indeed, the 2016 Pixels were left out. However, Google will offer owners of those devices one final OTA as a farewell.