As promised last month, the Google Messages beta now takes advantage of Bubbles in Android 11. Support on the latest app beta is rolling out today via a server-side update.
By default, bubbles appear in the top-left of your screen. The floating avatar features a Messages icon in the bottom-right corner to denote the responsible app. A name and preview appear — against a light or dark…
It’s great to see big changes like home screen widgets with iOS 14, but sometimes the tiny changes can add up to offer some valuable improvements in day-to-day use. One of these small new features is the iPhone emoji search option in iOS 14.
The option to search emoji…
My inside dog became a part-time outside dog earlier this year when we completed our backyard fence. Apollo was over-the-moon happy to expand his playground, but as a dog owner I had mixed feelings. What if my dog dug a hole under the fence or one of the kids left the gate…
Learn how to accelerate your business using automation and AI technology: Transform 2020
July 1, 2020
If companies were already investing in automation and AI technologies before March 2020, they have only accelerated those investments since. No one expected the jolt the COVID-19 pandemic would bring to business. With leaders looking for ways to avoid human contact, machines, software, and new processes that avoid those humans are even more imperative.
That’s why we’ve committed a whole day of…
Stanford AI researchers introduce LILAC, reinforcement learning for dynamic environments
July 1, 2020
Researchers from Stanford AI Lab (SAIL) have devised a method to deal with data and environments that change over time in a way that outperforms some leading approaches to reinforcement learning. Lifelong Latent Actor-Critic, aka LILAC, uses latent variable models and a…
Microsoft revealed plans to roll out demos for a number of upcoming Xbox One games. The company announced in a blog post today that it will enable Xbox One owners to try out between 75 to 100 unreleased games starting July 21 and running through July 27 as part of the Summer…
As we enter the month of July, we’re potentially only a few weeks away from the official release of the Samsung Galaxy Watch 3. As a result, we’ve been learning more and more about the upcoming wearable and, now, a fresh leak may have pinpointed the Galaxy Watch 3’s price point.
This morning, Evan Blass posted to his Twitter account a couple of notable details about the Galaxy Watch 3.
Researchers at Salesforce and the University of Virginia have proposed a new way to mitigate gender bias in word embeddings, the word representations used to train AI models to summarize, translate languages, and perform other prediction tasks. The team says correcting for…
Spiketrap has raised $3 million for its AI platform that helps brands understand how they are engaging with consumers on social media. The San Francisco-based company processes tons of text-based social data — like Twitter posts — to discern how consumers view a brand or…
A new report today suggests that iPhone 12 production is now 1-2 months behind schedule due to impact of the coronavirus crisis.
It says that the current position is ‘months of delay’ to mass production, but that Apple and its suppliers are working flat out to make up for lost time …
report is one of the more pessimistic ones, still not entirely ruling out the possibility of the iPhone 12…
