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Android 11 DP1: You can now pin up to 4 apps to the share menu

February 20, 2020
Sharing on Android has always been flexible and powerful, but over the past few releases, it’s run into some hangs. Between slow loading and changing categories, the Android share menu has often been more trouble than it’s worth, but on Android 11 Google is helping with that thanks to a new pinning feature. Starting with Android 11, you’ll be able to pin up to 4 applications to the default…
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Facebook’s AI speeds up natural language processing without additional training

February 20, 2020
Natural language models typically have to solve two tough problems: mapping sentence prefixes to fixed-sized representations and using the representations to predict the next word in the text. In a recent paper, researchers at Facebook AI Research assert that the first problem — the mapping problem — might be easier than the prediction problem, a hypothesis they build upon to augment language…
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Android 11 DP1: Google prepares scrolling screenshots w/ revamped UI [Video]

February 19, 2020
In addition to its coming native screen recorder, it looks like Google is finally delivering scrolling screenshots as a native feature in Android 11. While scrolling screenshots aren’t working properly just yet, we’ve been able to enable the UI to show you a quick preview. Scrolling screenshots is a feature that’s appeared on Android skins from Samsung, OnePlus, and several other brands…
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Stanford and NYU: Only 15% of AI federal agencies use is highly sophisticated

February 19, 2020
More than 40% of U.S. federal agencies and departments have experimented with AI tools, but only 15% currently use highly sophisticated AI, according to analysis by Stanford University computer scientists published today in “Government by Algorithm,” a joint report from Stanford and New York University. “This is concerning because agencies will find it harder to realize gains in accuracy and…
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