MobileNews

Google proposal for multi-skin toned handshake emoji expected with Unicode 14.0 next year

May 1, 2021
Emoji is undeniably one big reason why people update to the latest operating system every year. A proposal from Google for a multi-skin toned handshake emoji is expected to happen in 2022 with Unicode 14.0. Google’s creative director for emoji, Jennifer Daniel, first proposed the addition in November of 2019. It specifically involves a “right hand in all the various skin tone shades and a…
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GamingNews

Call of Duty Endowment campaigns to raise $3 million to employ veterans

April 30, 2021
Join GamesBeat Summit 2021, happening today! Watch live here!  The Call of Duty Endowment unveiled its #CODEMedicalHeroes campaign to raise $3 Million to employ veterans in high-paying jobs. Under the campaign, the endowment will honor veteran medics and hospital corpsmen and bring attention to the difficulties that they face finding jobs in the civilian healthcare industry. Through a series of…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Facebook details self-supervised AI that can segment images and videos

April 30, 2021
Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. Facebook today announced that it developed an algorithm in collaboration with Inria called DINO that enables the training of transformers, a type of machine learning model, without labeled training data. The company claims it sets a new state-of-the-art among unlabeled data training methods and leads to a model that can…
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AI & RoboticsNews

IBM is acquiring Turbonomic to advance AIOps agenda

April 30, 2021
Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. IBM announced this week that it is acquiring Turbonomic, provider of application resource management (ARM) and network performance management (NPM) software infused with machine learning…
MobileNews

Microsoft Edge set to gain ability to share tabs between Windows 10 and Android

April 30, 2021
While Google Chrome is undoubtedly the biggest browser across desktop and mobile, Microsoft Edge is set to add a tab sharing feature between the Chromium-based browser and the Android counterpart. It’s actually live for a very small group of users in the latest Edge Canary build v92.0.873.0 with tab sharing possible with the Android 92.0.870 build (via Windows Latest). Given that many Windows…
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