AI & RoboticsNews

Google used a 64-camera rig to train its portrait lighting AI

December 13, 2020
Google’s Portrait Light feature can make some of your more mediocre photos look a lot better by giving you a way to change their lighting direction and intensity. The tech giant launched the AI-based lighting feature in September for the Pixel 4a 5G and Pixel 5 before giving older Pixel phones access to it. Now, Google has published a post on its AI blog explaining the technology behind Portrait…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Netflix explains how it uses AI to sell you on a show

December 13, 2020
If Netflix’s decisions on marketing its hundreds of original shows seem highly calculated… that’s probably because they were. Netflix has outlined how it uses AI to market shows and predict their success in ways that conventional box office numbers and Nielsen…
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Quick Charge Podcast: December 12, 2020

December 13, 2020
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as…
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MobileNews

Google A/B testing a dark mode for Search on desktop browsers

December 13, 2020
While night modes are pervasive on Android and iOS, they are less common on large screen form factors. Google is now A/B testing a dark mode for Search on desktop web. Back in May, Chrome added a flag to “Show darkened search pages on Android.” The result was a near…
MobileNews

Kuo: iPhone 13 to be produced and launched on regular schedule in 2021

December 13, 2020
Apple faced several challenges in the development and manufacturing process of the iPhone 12 models in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which led the company to launch the new iPhones in two stages. For 2021, the company will be able to launch the iPhone 13 models on regular schedule, says reliable analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. In a new investor note obtained today by 9to5Mac, Kuo states that the mass…
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