State-of-the-art AI and machine learning algorithms can generate lifelike images of places and objects, but they’re also adept at swapping faces from one person to another — and of spotting sophisticated deepfakes. In a pair of academic papers published by teams at Microsoft Research and Peking University, researchers propose FaceShifter and Face X-Ray, a framework for high-fidelity and…
Thanks to Amazon’s Ring, Google’s Nest Cams, and numerous competitors, residential monitoring cameras have become commonplace over the past few years, enabling people to see who’s ringing the doorbell and walking around their homes. Today, Abode Systems is taking the…
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Every major company and government deploying AI at scale has publicly declared some form of statement on ethics in AI and articulated a set of guiding principles. In fact, Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society has launched a project…
Asus hopes to tap into an edge computing market anticipated to be worth $9 billion by 2024. To this end, the Taiwan-based company unveiled a new Mini PC — the PN61T — as well as the Tinker Edge R and Edge T, which were first announced last November. Asus says they’re designed to work in tandem within enterprise environments to enable check-in via facial recognition and automated lighting…
Why explainable AI is a critical business strategy (VB Live)
January 6, 2020
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Not only do customers care whether AI results are explainable, but internally, white-box AI is less risky. But what does it mean in practice? And how can businesses move away from black-box systems to more explainable AI? Learn how white box AI brings…
In 2018, the Lioness Generation 1 vibrator promised to improve users’ orgasms through detailed data collection. Two years later, Lioness has unveiled the Generation 2, a new vibrator that implements more than 30,000 climactic data points to deliver AI-driven guidance…
Chip designer Ambarella has announced two new chips for automotive cameras and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) based on its CVflow architecture for artificial intelligence processing. The Santa Clara, California-based company unveiled the CV22FS and CV2FS automotive camera system-on-chips (SoCs) with CVflow AI processing and ASIL-B compliance to enable safety-critical…
Samsung unveils its AI-powered 8K TVs for 2020
January 6, 2020
Samsung revealed its new QLED 8K TV last night in Korea, and now the US unveiling is under way.
We already heard about interesting features like its “digital butler” that will control other devices, including older stuff that can’t connect to networks using…
Nuheara likes to call itself the “smart-hearing” company, and today it’s unveiling its most advanced hearing buds to date. The IQbuds2 Max use active noise cancellation and neural network-based personalization to fit the wearer’s “soundscape.”
Consumers can…
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) typically signals the arrival of new smart home appliances, and this year is certainly no exception. To this end, Moen today debuted a voice-activated faucet and water detector in its growing U by Moen product line, complementing its digital shower system that recently gained support for Google Assistant.
The family flagship — the U by Moen Smart Faucet —…
