Google Cloud is increasing its bet on edge computing by partnering with 200 application developers whose services will now be available from datacenters closer to business customers. By expanding edge computing, Google is hoping to entice even more enterprises to turn to the cloud for their computing needs.
The move is timed to take advantage of the rollout of 5G networks, which promise far…
Google’s Look to Speak taps gaze-tracking AI to help users with impairments communicate
December 8, 2020
Google today launched an experimental app for Android that leverages AI to make communication more accessible for people with speech and motor impairments. Called Look to Speak, it tracks eye movements to let people use their eyes to select prewritten, customizable phrases…
OWC has announced Copy That, an app with the sole purpose of making it easier to copy photos and videos from your iPhone to external storage. It gives you the ability to select what you want to copy, where you want to copy photos to, and how you want to copy them.
The…
Official: Trump to Attend the Army-Navy Game at West Point
December 8, 2020
President Donald J. Trump walks across Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 14, 2019, during the 120th Army-Navy Game. (Erik Estrada/U.S. Marine Corps)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — President Donald Trump is scheduled to attend this weekend’s Army–Navy football game in New York, the U.S. Naval Academy‘s athletic director said Monday.
The game on Saturday at the U.S. Military…
Few researchers thoroughly test adversarial attacks on surveillance AI in the real world
December 8, 2020
Advances in machine learning, particularly in computer vision and facial recognition, have enabled systems deployed by governments and private corporations to erode expectations of privacy. Adversarial attacks, or techniques that attempt to fool models with deceptive images…
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Samsung introduced the Galaxy F41 in October as the first member of its new Galaxy F series, and it is now working on the Galaxy F62, which was spotted on Geekbench last week. There’s no official word from Samsung about it yet, but a new report claims the F62 has entered production at Samsung’s facility in Greater Noida in India. It will be one of the slimmest smartphones from Samsung…
Xiaomi Mi 11 to come with 55W fast charging
December 8, 2020
The Xiaomi M2011K2C, expected to arrive as the Xiaomi Mi 11, has just been certified by 3C. The phone will come with the MDY-12-EQ charger that supports speeds of up to 55W, hinting of the charging rates of the upcoming smartphone.
There’s not much we know about the Mi…
Upcoming Lenovo Tab with Android 11 spotted on Geekbench
December 8, 2020
An upcoming tablet by Lenovo appeared in a Geekbench listing booting Android 11. The unnamed slate bearing the TB-7306F model number sports Mediatek’s Helio A22 and 2GB RAM. The tablet managed 144-points in the single-core department and 498-points on the multi-core…
LG Uplus and Qualcomm bring 5G mmWave to South Korea
December 8, 2020
South Korea is the global leader in terms of 5G deployment but until now the country only had access to sub-6Ghz variety of the new-gen network. LG Uplus and Qualcomm have now launched the first-millimeter wavelength (mmWave) 5G network in the country though it’s limited to the Kumoh National Institute of Technology (KIT) located in the city of Gumi, North Gyeongsang province.
The newly…
