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New Google Assistant design that brings Pixel light bar to all Android phones rolling out

December 11, 2020
In mid-November, Google appeared to settle on a compact design for Google Assistant where the activation panel is half as tall and answers don’t take up the entire screen. Google is now widely testing an Assistant design that brings the light bar to all Android phones. Google first tested this design in June. The most notable aspect involves light — upon activating Assistant — streaming in…
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Papercup raises $10.5 million to dub videos with AI-generated speech

December 10, 2020
Papercup, a U.K.-based startup developing speech translation technology for video creators, has raised $10.5 million in venture funding. The company says the funds will be put toward machine learning research and expanding its human-in-the-loop quality control feature for customers’ AI-translated videos. Most of the world’s videos have been recorded in a single language. For example, 33% of…
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Salesforce claims its AI can spot signs of breast cancer with 92% accuracy

December 10, 2020
Salesforce today peeled back the curtains on ReceptorNet, a machine learning system researchers at the company developed in partnership with clinicians at the University of Southern California’s Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine of USC. The system, which can determine a critical biomarker for oncologists when deciding on the appropriate treatment for breast cancer…
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Nokia is announcing a new Android Go smartphone on December 15

December 10, 2020
HMD is expected to launch a couple new smartphones, including the flagship Nokia 9.3, and the affordable midranger Nokia 5.4, but apparently another device will get to stand in the limelight first – a phone with Android Go is coming out in China. The announcement will take place on December 15, the Nokia account revealed on Weibo. While we don’t know what to expect from Nokia, we do know…
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