Google has announced that Stadia will be available in eight new European countries over the next 24 hours. This includes Austria, Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, and Switzerland.
As before, the price is €9.99 a month for the Stadia Pro service, with the first month being free. This doesn’t actually include the cost of the games, such as Cyberpunk 2077 releasing on…
NVIDIA found a way to train AI with very little data
December 8, 2020
NVIDIA has developed a new approach for training generative adversarial networks (GAN) that could one day make them suitable for a greater variety of tasks. Before getting into NVIDIA’s work, it helps to know a bit about how GANs work. Every GAN consists of two competing…
OnePlus reveals when the OnePlus Nord and the 8-series will stop receiving security patches
December 8, 2020
OnePlus has put up a page where you can track the status of security updates for some of its phones. Right now it appears a bit incomplete, but it does bring some good news for owners of the OnePlus Nord – it will be getting security patches until mid-2023.
That’s…
NVIDIA found a way to train AI with very little data
December 8, 2020
NVIDIA has developed a new approach for training generative adversarial networks (GAN) that could one day make them suitable for a greater variety of tasks. Before getting into NVIDIA’s work, it helps to know a bit about how GANs work. Every GAN consists of two competing neural networks: a generator and a discriminator.
In one where the goal of the algorithm is to create new images, the…
Quick Charge Podcast: December 7, 2020
December 8, 2020
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players.
New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on…
WASHINGTON — Boeing, General Atomics and Kratos will create prototypes for the Air Force’s Skyborg program and have a mere five months to build the first test vehicles of the autonomous combat drone.
As part of the Skyborg program, the Air Force hopes to build a…
Last month, Google announced that it would fulfill a long-time feature request in its RCS client. End-to-end encryption in Google Messages is now rolling out for some beta users.
In mid-November, Google announced the security feature alongside the global availability of its direct RCS solution. E2EE means that the contents of a chat cannot be read by anybody as its sent from sender to…
The US Navy wants to find ships to kill using aerial drones launched from submarines
December 8, 2020
WASHINGTON – The name of the game in the Pacific is stand-off range. But with longer range torpedoes and anti-ship missiles in the arsenal, submariners are looking to a new domain to help them extend their deadly reach: The air.
In an October request for information…
Lexus teases electric SUV powered by new drivetrain technology
December 8, 2020
Lexus is teasing an upcoming new electric SUV powered by the automaker’s new “DIRECT4” drivetrain technology.
Like its parent company, Toyota, Lexus has been lagging behind in electrification.
You could argue that the market disruption is even more important for the…
Researchers are starting to refuse to review Google AI papers
December 8, 2020
Computer scientists in AI are beginning to refuse to review Google AI research until Google changes its stance on former AI ethics co-lead Timnit Gebru. Reviewers who select research for publication at academic conferences work on a voluntary basis to support the scientific community and are typically chosen based on their experience and expertise. According to an analysis of papers published last…
