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Opinion: I was ready to throw my Nest ecosystem in the trash – Google just earned a second chance

October 5, 2022
I’ve been all-in on Google’s smart home ecosystem for the past several years, but with the soft reboot in 2021, things started falling apart, and frankly, I was getting tired of it. Over the past couple of months, I’ve been prepared to throw out my entire Nest ecosystem and move on to something else. But with new hardware and a revamped app that shows the company is actually listening to…
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AI & RoboticsNews

DeepMind unveils first AI to discover faster matrix multiplication algorithms

October 5, 2022
Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! Watch here. Can artificial intelligence (AI) create its own algorithms to speed up matrix multiplication, one of machine learning’s most fundamental tasks? Today, in a paper published in Nature, DeepMind unveiled AlphaTensor, the “first artificial intelligence system for discovering…
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GamingNews

Xbox Game Pass gets Scorn, A Plague Tale: Requiem on day one

October 5, 2022
Interested in learning what’s next for the gaming industry? Join gaming executives to discuss emerging parts of the industry this October at GamesBeat Summit Next. Register today. Xbox has announced which games are coming to Game Pass in the first wave of October additions. Among the other games, this wave gets four day one launches including the Geigerian horror title Scorn and A Plague…
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AI & RoboticsNews

White House unveils its 'blueprint' for an AI Bill of Rights

October 5, 2022
Between Amazon using tech to extract more productivity from its workforce, Clearview AI harvesting our facial features, schools trying to scan children’s rooms before exams and Facebook’s whole “accused of contributing to genocide” thing, the same technologies that have brought us the wonders of the modern world have also brought about some of the horrors of the modern…
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