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Nvidia unveils Jetson Xavier NX for edge AI

November 6, 2019
Nvidia today unveiled the Jetson Xavier NX, a module for training and deploying AI systems on edge devices like drones, cars, and robots. The Xavier NX is about the size of a credit card that can achieve 21 TOPS for AI workloads, while consuming as little as 10 watts of power. The Xavier NX will retail for $399 and be available in March. “So we’ve taken Xavier and tuned it for extremely high…
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Xiaomi launches Mi TV 4S in Europe, the 55" costs €449

November 6, 2019
Xiaomi revealed the Mi Note 10 today, and the event’s “One more thing” was the arrival of the Mi TV 4S lineup in Europe. The Old Continent will get the Mi TV 4S 55″ and the Mi TV 4S 43″, as well as the affordable Mi TV 4A 32″. Both the 55-inch and the 43-inch versions come with 4K HDR screen and MEMC technology for fluid images. They have a Mediatek 6886…
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All US veterans can now use an iPhone to access their health records

November 6, 2019
Apple is widening American veterans’ access to health records from their iPhones. In the wake of a test this summer, any veteran receiving care through the Veterans Health Administration can use Apple’s Health app on iOS to pull up their medical data. You can check lab results, medications and other data in one place without having to get printed copies or otherwise walk through an…
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Neural Magic raises $15 million to boost AI training speed on off-the-shelf processors

November 6, 2019
Despite the proliferation of accelerator chips like Google’s tensor processing unit (TPU) and Intel’s forthcoming Nervana NNP-T, most machine learning practitioners are limited by budget or design to commodity processors. Unfortunately, these processors tend to train sophisticated AI models rather slowly, exacerbating one of the many challenges involved in AI R&D. Hence, Neural Magic. MIT…
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