We’ve all been working from home since earlier in the year, and at the same time, many of us are trying to improve our cooking skills or to get some variety into our meals. If you’re into Vietnamese food, the Not Phở app, available today, is definitely a good place to start.
According to developer Linh Bouniol, the app’s name is playing with the fact that many people can only think of…
A new analyst note from Gartner today estimates how the global smartphone market performed during the June quarter. While we already knew Apple’s iPhone shipments were likely close to flat based on the company’s reported quarterly revenue, today’s analyst note…
Video games have been one of the bright spots of the coronavirus pandemic. Humans are social animals, and the shelter-in-place and quarantine orders continue to keep us at home. And in most cases, this is keeping us from playing tabletop role-playing games such as Dungeons…
Motion capture — the process of recording peoples’ movements — traditionally requires equipment, cameras, and software tailored for the purpose. But researchers at the Max Planck Institute and Facebook Reality Labs claim they’ve developed a machine learning algorithm — PhysCap — that works with any off-the-shelf DSLR camera running at 25 frames per second. In a paper expected to be…
LinkedIn open-sources toolkit to measure AI model fairness
August 26, 2020
LinkedIn today released the LinkedIn Fairness Toolkit (LiFT), an open source software library designed to enable the measurement of fairness in AI and machine learning workflows. The company says LiFT can be deployed during training and scoring to measure biases in training…
In the big data domain, researchers need to ensure that conclusions are consistently verifiable. But that can be particularly challenging in medicine because physicians themselves aren’t always sure about disease diagnoses and treatment plans.
To investigate how machine…
The latest version of Google’s browser is rolling out a whole slew of changes from faster page loading to collapsible Tab Groups. Chrome 85 for Android also sees a revamped share menu, while desktops add QR code sharing.
There are several ways to share links in Chrome for Android. The overflow menu houses a “Share” option, while a dedicated button is starting to appear next to the…
Apple today has released iOS 14 beta 6 and iPadOS 14 beta 6 to developers. This release comes one week after iOS 14 beta 5 was released to developers and public beta users, signaling a shift from the two-week release cycle to weekly releases.
iOS 14 beta 6 is available to…
Waze has supported Google Assistant for a while, but only on Android. Assistant is admittedly limited on iPhones and iPads, but its users are about to get a bonus. Starting today, Waze for iOS offers Google Assistant integration.
On Android, Waze allows Google Assistant to…
Android 11’s power menu showing all Nest, Chromecast media devices after Home 2.27 update
August 25, 2020
Earlier this month, the Nest Hub Max started appearing in the Android 11 power menu. The latest Google Home app now lets you add every Nest, Home, and Cast device for quick control on Android 11.
Google was likely testing the waters with Home 2.26 as only the flagship Nest Hub Max could be controlled alongside smart bulbs, Nest Cams, and Android TVs. Version 2.27, which also introduces an…
