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Redmi K40 series of smartphones have achieved A+ rating from DisplayMate, the company shared on Chinese micro-blogging website Weibo. The series includes Redmi K40, Redmi K40 Pro, and Redmi K40 Pro+ and all three phones launched in China late last month. They come with E4 AMOLED displays that support high refresh rates and 1,300 nits of peak brightness. DisplayMate tests and evaluates all types of displays to analyse different aspects of what makes a display good or bad.Xiaomi took to Weibo to share through its Redmi…

The Tide Is Turning The crypto market in recent times has seen some consistency after what has been a turbulent Q2 and Q3 with high levels of inflation and the collapse of Luna being the primary causes. Many investors now believe the bottom has well and truly been hit and consistent gains are on the horizon, particularly for utility projects as investors and whales look to hedge against inflation and find abnormal gains in a bearish market. However, alongside the top coins such as Ethereum (ETH) and Solana…

Pros Reliable and speedy connection User-friendly interface No activity logs Available on most platforms A large number of servers Variety of useful features Cons Not the cheapest Only six simultaneous connections Some features not available for Apple productsNordVPN is one of the most popular and highly rated VPNs, with millions of downloads and a 4.5+ rating on both the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. But does it live up to the hype? NordVPN is a good fit for anyone looking for a secure, fast,…

Study participants in South Sudan. Credit: University of Auckland When singing and speaking to young infants, people alter their voices in a way that is consistent across cultures, according to a study published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour. …

Protesters outside the Supreme Court following the overturning of Roe v. Wade.Brandon Bell | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesCVS is limiting the number of the emergency contraceptives commonly known as "morning after pills" and "Plan B" that people can buy on its website and in its stores after last week's Supreme Court ruling.The drug store chain said in a statement it had ample supply of the pills online and in stores, but that it wanted to ensure "equitable access and consistent supply on store shelves." The move comes…

MultiMix: Sparingly Supervised, Extreme Multitask Learning from Medical ImagesSchematic of Our Proposed Model: MultiMix (Image by Author)In this article, I will discuss a new semi-supervised, multi-tasking medical imaging method called MultiMix, by Ayaan Haque (me), Abdullah-Al-Zubaer Imran, Adam Wang, and Demetri Terzopoulos. Our paper was accepted to ISBI 2021 in the full-paper track and was presented at the conference in April. The extension of our paper with improved results was published in the MELBA Journal as well.…

Understand OLS Linear Regression with a bit of mathImage by AuthorThe OLS estimator is known to be unbiased, consistent and BLUE (Best Linear Unbiased Estimator). But what do these properties mean? Why are they important for a linear regression model? In this article, we will discuss these properties.A typical linear regression looks like something as follows. The response variable (i.e., Y) is explained as a linear combination of explanatory variables (e.g., the intercept, X1, X2, X3, …) and ε is the error term (i.e., a…

Adding Census data to H3 Hexagons for Spatial AnalysisPhoto by Donny Jiang on UnsplashAll analysis techniques, opinions, and code are independently developed and my own work.Getting demographic data for a city or zip code is pretty straightforward — several APIs and data downloads exist to do so. But, for many reasons, these geographies have limitations (to name a few, zip codes are a function of USPS deliveries and city boundaries were established up to centuries ago — not exactly designed for data analysis).I’ve tested…

Update 21st May 2022: We've updated this article with new testing for the 1TB Samsung T7 Shield Portable SSD on page 2.Today's best Samsung T7 Shield Portable 2TB dealsOriginal Review published 26th April 2022:Samsung T7 Shield at Best Buy for $229.99It’s been more than a year and a half since we reviewed Samsung’s T7 portable SSD, and today we have the new Shield model in the lab. The T7 Shield takes the original formula and focuses on improving its physical endurance, addressing one of our complaints with the T7 that…