During IBM’s virtual AI Summit this week, the company announced updates across its Watson family of products in the areas of language, explainability, and workplace automation. A new feature called Reading Comprehension surfaces answers from databases of enterprise documents in response to natural language questions, assigning a confidence score to each response. A novel module in Watson…
Parallel Domain, a startup developing a synthetic data generation platform for AI and machine learning applications, today emerged from stealth with $11 million in funding. The company, which has over 25 employees and customers in auto manufacturing and drone delivery, plans…
Managed enterprise AI startup DataRobot today announced an additional $50 million raise from strategic investors Snowflake Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). Together, the fresh capital expands DataRobot’s series F round led by Altimeter…
DxO has announced the availability of PhotoLab 4.1, a free update to those who already own DxO PhotoLab 4. The update brings support for Apple M1 computers, an improved HSL tool, and adds five additional camera profiles.
Originally announced in October, DxO PhotoLab 4.1 promises three to five times faster performance compared to the most recent 13-inch Macbook Pro and Mac Mini. The company also…
Microsoft launches effort to fight corruption with AI and other emerging technologies
December 9, 2020
Microsoft today announced the launch of Anti-Corruption Technology and Solutions (ACTS), an initiative it says will leverage cloud computing, data visualization, AI, machine learning, and other technologies over the next decade to “enhance transparency” and “detect and…
The Army versus Navy college football game has been taking place since 1890 and annually since 1930. Photographer James Quantz Jr. was given the opportunity to capture Navy’s specialty uniform as part of its 175-year celebration of the Naval Academy’s tradition.
Army…
Samsung is going to introduce the Galaxy S21 smartphones with a new fingerprint scanner, leakster claims. The under-display sensor was initially introduced with the Galaxy S10, and then made its way to the Galaxy S20, but now it will be much faster and significantly bigger.
The sensor under the OLED panel will be square, 8mm sides, making it 64 sq.mm. For comparison, the previous two flagships…
Samsung's European Android 11 update schedule revealed
December 9, 2020
Samsung Germany has shared its rollout schedule for Android 11 + One UI 3.0 and it’s safe to assume that the given time frames of the phones in the list won’t deviate too much for the rest of Europe.
The Galaxy S20 family, is getting it right now, we now…
Samsung Galaxy S21 trio prices to be identical to S20 series', Indian launch slightly delayed
December 9, 2020
An unnamed Samsung insider spoke to Indian publication , revealing some spicy details about the upcoming Galaxy S21 series.
The prices of the trio won’t change compared to this year’s Galaxy S20-series pricing. That would mean INR 67,000 for the Galaxy S20, INR…
After recently hitting the 5 billion download milestone on Android, Google Photos is looking to target the other side of the mobile OS fence with some new features. For those using an iOS device, Google Photos now offers the ability to sync your liked content with Apple Photos.
While Google Photos is cross-platform, it’s hard to fully utilize it on iOS due to certain restrictions put in place…
