AI & RoboticsNews

Google expands AI-powered flood alerts to all of India

September 1, 2020
In late 2018, in collaboration with the Central Water Commission of India, Israel Institute of Technology, and Bar-Ilan University, Google piloted a flood-predicting model in portions of Patna, India as a part of its Flood Forecasting Initiative. The company and its partners claimed the model could predict riverine floods — that is, floods from overrun riverbanks — with 75% accuracy during…
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Nvidia Broadcast brings RTX-powered AI to livestreaming video

September 1, 2020
Nvidia is improving the suite of features it offers to livestreamers with its GeForce RTX graphics cards. The company introduced a revamped Nvidia Broadcast tool today as part of the rollout of its next-generation RTX 3000-series GPUs. This software uses RTX-accelerated artificial intelligence to help broadcasters improve their audio and video. Nvidia was already testing some of these features…
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OxygenOS 10.5.6 for OnePlus Nord brings yet more camera tweaks, more

September 1, 2020
OxygenOS 10.5.6 is now rolling out for the affordable OnePlus Nord, with the patch bringing some further camera improvements plus some power consumption boosts. Dropping just a week after a substantial OxygenOS 10.5.5 update, this patch was confirmed as rolling out over on the official OnePlus Forums. Those with access to the Nord should now start to see OxygenOS 10.5.6 arriving as long as they…
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Android 11 DP4 rolling out now for OnePlus 8 and 8 Pro

September 1, 2020
While we have already spent some time with what was supposed to be the final Android 11 Developer Preview for the OnePlus 8 series, an extra DP4 has now dropped with some notable tweaks and performance boosts. Ahead of the final release of OxygenOS 11 in the coming weeks…
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Motorola Moto One 5G goes official w/ Snapdragon 765G, sub $500 price

September 1, 2020
The Motorola Moto One 5G has now been quietly unveiled in the United States, with the smartphone essentially being a rebrand of the Motorola G 5G Plus that was released in European markets earlier this month. We don’t know the explicit US dollar pricing, but we do know that this smartphone will come under $500. The rest of the hardware is literally what we’ve seen already but with more…
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