Some Google Pixel owners have received the Android 11 Beta early, revealing yet more details about this year’s version of Android. In a tweet, Mishaal Rahman from XDA Developers said that two Pixel 4 XL users reported having received the update, revealing new details about Android 11 features like the power button menu, three new icon shapes, and auto-generated app suggestions in the home screen…
Activision announced that it has delayed new seasons for its Call of Duty games amid unrest in the U.S.
The nationwide protests erupted and spilled over into violence after the killing of a black man by a white police officer in Minneapolis.
Sony and Electronic Arts have…
Various retailers have cut the price of the newest iPhone models in China, according to a new report from . The price cuts come as part of the major shopping festival in China known as 6.18, which Apple rarely participates in.
The actual 6.18 shopping event takes place on…
While Apple has released iOS 13.3.1 to the public today, the company has also made the first beta version of iOS 13.3.5 available. And now, has been able to access a new “Apple News+ Audio” feature, which is hidden in iOS 13.5.5 beta.
We mentioned last month that Apple is working to offer audio stories for Apple News+ subscribers, and now we can confirm that with iOS 13.5.5 beta. Apple…
AI tools could improve fake news detection by analyzing users’ interactions and comments
June 2, 2020
In a paper published on the preprint server Arxiv.org, researchers affiliated with Microsoft and Arizona State University propose an approach to detecting fake news that leverages a technique called weak social supervision. They say that by enabling the training of fake…
Last week, OpenAI published a paper detailing GPT-3, a machine learning model that achieves strong results on a number of natural language benchmarks. At 175 billion parameters, where a parameter affects data’s prominence in an overall prediction, it’s the largest of its…
Microsoft researchers say NLP bias studies must consider role of social hierarchies like racism
June 1, 2020
As the recently released GPT-3 and several recent studies demonstrate, racial bias, as well as bias based on gender, occupation, and religion, can be found in popular NLP language models. But a team of AI researchers wants the NLP bias research community to more closely examine and explore relationships between language, power, and social hierarchies like racism in their work. That’s one of…
Third Pixel feature drop improves AI-powered Adaptive Battery, integrates Recorder and Google Assistant
June 1, 2020
Google today announced the latest “feature drop” for its Pixel line of Android phones. Adaptive Battery now predicts when your battery will run out, the Recorder app is getting Google Assistant integration, new bedtime features aim to help you sleep better, and the…
Zynga will purchase Istanbul-based game developer Peak for $1.8 billion, marking the largest acquisition in Zynga’s history.
In a press release, Zynga officials said the deal would be financed by $900 million in cash and $900 million in stock. Zynga had already bought…
In a pair of recently published technical papers, researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) propose new applications of soft robotics — the subfield dealing with machines made from tissue-like materials — that aim to tackle the challenge of grasping objects of different shapes, weights, and sizes. One builds on an existing work that employs a…
