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Hailo raises $60 million to accelerate the launch of its AI edge chip

Hailo, a startup developing hardware designed to speed up AI inferencing at the edge, today announced that it’s raised $60 million in series B funding led by previous and new strategic investors. CEO Orr Danon says the tranche will be used to accelerate the rollout of Hailo’s Hailo-8 chip, which was officially detailed in May 2019 ahead of an early 2020 ship date — a chip that enables…
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ZipRecruiter: 4 states account for over 90% of AI jobs

AI and machine learning jobs are in strong demand around the U.S., but not every region has benefited equally from the boom. That’s according to ZipRecruiter’s Future of Work Report 2020, which is out today. To complie the report, ZipRecruiter surveyed data science job…
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Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra teardown shows off the phone’s huge 108-megapixel sensor

iFixit has posted its teardown of Samsung’s new Galaxy S20 Ultra, and it reveals that the 108-megapixel camera sensor is, as you might expect, really big. You can get an idea of just how large the sensor is when you compare it to the iPhone 11 Pro’s 12-megapixel primary camera sensor, which iFixit did in the below photo: Image: iFixit As iFixit rightly points out, though, a bigger…
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Uber details VerCD, the AI tech powering its self-driving cars

Uber, which hasn’t publicly discussed the architecture of its autonomous car platform in great detail, today published a post laying out the technologies that enable engineers within its Advanced Technologies Group (ATG) to test, validate, and deploy AI models to cars. It gives a glimpse into the complexities of self-driving car development generally, and perhaps more importantly, it serves as a…
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Google releases Android 11 patch with Developer Preview 1.1

The Android 11 Developer Preview launched two weeks ago with six releases scheduled before the Q3 2020 launch. Google today announced a “patch” for Android 11 that’s being referred to as DP 1.1. Slotting in between the first and second previews, this update provides bug fixes and improvements following early developer feedback: Privacy: Apps targeting Android 11 no longer receive an…
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