AI advances are going to underpin many of this year’s major camera developments, as increasingly powerful local processing combines with machine learning to enable on-device recognition of people and objects. Today, D-Link is introducing two new home security cameras that are leveraging edge-based AI to detect both people and breaking glass, enabling users to get quick notifications if either is…
Chip designer Ambarella has announced a new robotics platform based on its CVflow architecture for artificial intelligence processing, and it has also signed a deal with Amazon Web Services to make it easier to design products with its chips.
Santa Clara, California-based…
Dell is expanding its Latitude brand of business laptops by adding a 9000-series, starting with the new Latitude 9510. As with some other recent notebook launches, the company is highlighting a few superlatives here. Dell is calling the Latitude 9510 “world’s…
AI is no longer poised to change the world someday; it’s changing the world now. As we begin a new year and decade, VentureBeat turned to some of the keenest minds in AI to revisit progress made in 2019 and look ahead to how machine learning will mature in 2020. We spoke with PyTorch creator Soumith Chintala, University of California professor Celeste Kidd, Google AI chief Jeff Dean, Nvidia…
DeepMind, a UK-based artificial intelligence company purchased by Google in 2014, has turned its sights to the problem of breast cancer detection. Although breast cancer is the most common type of cancer among women, detection is difficult due to high rates of false…
Google Health’s AI identifies breast cancer in mammogram imagery with fewer false positives
January 1, 2020
Google Health today shared an AI model trained with more than 90,000 mammogram x-rays that achieve better results than human radiology experts while recognizing more of false negatives, the kind of images that look normal but contain breast cancer. Initial findings were…
6 AI features Microsoft added to Office in 2019
December 31, 2019
Microsoft has added so many AI-driven features to its Office productivity suite this year that we wanted to pull together a comprehensive list — but it’s not as straightforward as it might seem. Features like PowerPoint Designer, OneNote’s ink to text, and Word’s grammar and style suggestions got notable improvements, but they didn’t first show up in 2019.
That’s because Microsoft…
Live Freely uses a combination of predictive artificial intelligence and remote monitoring to help take better care of seniors, particularly with emergency incidents such as falls.
The San Jose, California-based company recently launched Buddy, health management and remote…
Researchers detail AI that de-hazes and colorizes underwater photos
December 30, 2019
Ever notice that underwater images tend to be be blurry and somewhat distorted? That’s because phenomena like light attenuation and back-scattering adversely affect visibility. To remedy this, researchers at Harbin Engineering University in China devised a machine…
Smartphones and social media have often been called our era’s cigarettes — an addictive, destructive cancer to society. Children are particularly susceptible to the corruption permeating the digital world, whether they’re soaking in misinformation or battling a barrage of bullying and abuse.
But while the internet can be toxic, for millions of young people globally the only world they’ve…
