MobileNews

Shopping apps for iOS see Black Friday boost as holiday spending shifts to smartphones

December 4, 2019
Now that Black Friday and Cyber Monday are in the books, we’re getting our first look at the data from the big holiday shopping weekend. Sensor Tower reports that Black Friday marked a major increase in downloads for shopping apps on the App Store. According to that data, the overall number of first-time app downloads in the Shopping category on the App Store increased 8% year-over-year. In…
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AI & RoboticsNews

OpenAI’s Procgen Benchmark prevents AI model overfitting

December 3, 2019
Where the training of machine learning models is concerned, there’s always a risk of overfitting — or corresponding too closely — to a particular set of data. In point of fact, it’s not infeasible that popular machine learning benchmarks like the Arcade Learning Environment encourage overfitting, in that they have a low emphasis on generalization. That’s why OpenAI — the San…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Google details AI that classifies chest X-rays with human-level accuracy

December 3, 2019
Analyzing chest X-ray images with machine learning algorithms is easier said than done. That’s because typically, the clinical labels required to train those algorithms are obtained with rule-based natural language processing or human annotation, both of which tend to introduce inconsistencies and errors. Additionally, it’s challenging to assemble data sets that represent an adequately diverse…
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GamingNews

‘Red Dead Online’ players can soon set up a bootlegging business

December 3, 2019
Red Dead Online players can test their luck as moonshiners beginning Friday, December 13th. Rockstar Games is adding a new moonshiner role (aka Frontier Pursuit), which will let you set up a bootlegging business. In the new role, you’ll perfect your distillation methods, avoid the law and put rivals out of business. If you’re good enough, you might get to partner with the notorious…
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