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Apple announces WWDC 2020 coming in June as an ‘online experience’: Apple will reveal iOS 14 ...

March 13, 2020
Apple has just announced WWDC for 2020, coming in June (no exact date specified). The conference will be presented as what Apple calls a completely new online experience, confirming that a physical event will not be happening this year due to coronavirus concerns. In the online event, Apple will preview the future of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS. Apple will also release developer betas at…
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Eigen and ING target financial industry with NLP-driven data extraction

March 13, 2020
Eigen Technologies, a U.K. startup that offers natural language processing (NLP) technology to help companies extract meaningful data from documents, has closed a $42 million series B round of funding. This includes a fresh $5 million tranche from Dutch finance giant ING, following an initial $37 million raise back in November. Additionally, Eigen and ING announced a deeper working partnership to…
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Google Ads app gains a dedicated dark mode on Android

March 13, 2020
Google has now officially updated the Google Ads app with its own dedicated dark mode, giving it parity with the growing array of darkened Android and iOS apps. With Android 10 finally giving the people what they want, with a system-wide dark mode, it would stand to reason…
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Xbox Live is down as people huddle at home away from coronavirus

March 13, 2020
Xbox Live is down due to a number of technical disruptions. Microsoft’s online gaming service isn’t working for everybody, and the company has told players it is working to bring it back online. The Xbox Live outage is primarily keeping people from signing into the service across Xbox One, Xbox 360, and Windows. In turn, that is preventing players from booting up digital games or games that…
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Amazon’s AI predicts context from search queries

March 12, 2020
Amazon is using AI and machine learning to predict context from customers’ queries. In a preprint paper accepted to the ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval scheduled to take place this month, Amazon researchers describe a system that predicts activities like “running” from queries like “Adidas men’s pants.” It could help to improve the quality of search…
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