AI & RoboticsNews

Incode raises $10 million to verify identities with AI

October 24, 2019
Incode, a San Francisco startup developing what it describes as an omnichannel biometric identity platform, today announced that it’s raised $10 million in seed funding from undisclosed investors. Founder and CEO Ricardo Amper said that the newfound capital will enable Incode to accelerate the development and rollout of its tools globally, some of which are already being used by major banks…
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GamingNews

Mike Ybarra joins Blizzard after years as Xbox services boss

October 24, 2019
Blizzard Entertainment is getting a new executive from Microsoft. Mike Ybarra is taking on the role of executive vice president and general manager at the Overwatch and World of Warcraft publisher. This comes two weeks after Ybarra left his long-time position on…
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OxygenOS Open Beta 4 for the OnePlus 7 and OnePlus 7 Pro set to roll out soon

October 24, 2019
The OxygenOS Open Beta 4 should be available to download for the OnePlus 7 and OnePlus 7 Pro very soon and brings a long list of new tweaks and improvements for Android 10. Officially announced on the OnePlus forums, the update isn’t quite ready yet as the development team is still “addressing an issue.” Considering that we saw Open Beta 3 hit devices just a few weeks ago, this is quite the…
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AI & RoboticsNews

AI can help doctors spot brain hemorrhages faster

October 24, 2019
The process relied on a convolutional neural network that pored over 4,396 CT scans. That’s a comparatively small number of samples, but the abnormalities were detailed “at the pixel level,” according to UCSF. In other words, they were far less likely to misinterpret noise and other errors as hemorrhages. The technique also had the AI training on part of an image at a time rather…
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MobileNews

Google testing Android 10 style gesture navigation for Chrome OS tablets

October 23, 2019
Just a few short months after the release of the Pixel Slate, Google formally announced that they were getting out of the business of making tablets. Many took this as a bad sign for the future of Chrome OS tablets, thinking that Google wouldn’t bother developing tablet-specific features. However, evidence has come to light pointing to Google working on bringing something similar to Android…
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