DefenseNews

Poland could purchase M1 Abrams tanks from US

July 10, 2021
WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s Defence Ministry is reportedly preparing to buy about 250 M1 Abrams tanks from the United States, two months after it announced plans to buy 24 Turkish Bayraktar TB2 drones. Two sources close to the deal told Polish news site Gazeta.pl that the ministry is negotiating the potential contract terms. “It has been rumored that something like this [acquisition] is…
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MobileNews

Google bringing TensorFlow Lite into Play services to encourage on-device ML in Android apps

July 10, 2021
On-device machine learning offers a number of benefits from speed (lower latency) to privacy. To help increase adoption on Android, Google is now adding an “Android ML Platform” — primarily TensorFlow Lite — directly to Play services. Google Play services is responsible for key user-facing features on Android and provides third-party app developers access to various tools. The latest…
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MobileNews

Google Messages preps ‘External Messaging’ permission in support of Samsung’s Continuity

July 10, 2021
Google Messages is preparing a new, specialized Android permission that will help you send RCS messages from a tablet or smartwatch using Samsung’s “Continuity.” For a few years now, Samsung has offered a system called “Call and Message Continuity” or “Call & text on other devices” that allows you to place calls and send/receive text messages using your Samsung Galaxy tablet or…
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GamingNews

BASALT Minecraft competition aims to advance reinforcement learning

July 9, 2021
Join AI & data leaders at Transform 2021 on July 12th for the AI/ML Automation Technology Summit. Register today. Deep reinforcement learning, a subfield of machine learning that combines reinforcement learning and deep learning, takes what’s known as a reward function and learns to maximize the expected total reward. This works remarkably well, enabling systems to figure out how to solve…
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