SmartHop, a startup developing an AI-powered freight dispatcher service for small businesses, today announced it raised $4.5 million. A spokesperson for the company said the funding will be used to help scale service and accelerate SmartHop’s go-to-market efforts.
Over 90% of trucking companies in the U.S. are categorized as small carriers and operate with fewer than six trucks. SmartHop asserts…
Immervision has announced real-time video distortion correction software to help create professional quality videos on smartphones. The Montreal company also revealed an off-the-shelf 125-degree wide-angle lens, enabling mobile phone makers to improve their next-generation…
Leaders from Google, Adobe, and more talk benefits and bias at the Conversational AI Summit
July 21, 2020
Presented by Cloudera
“I’m extremely excited about the future of the intersection between conversational AI and the multitude of platforms that are being developed around these capabilities,” said Linden Hillebrand, VP Global Customer Success and Support at Cloudera…
Have you spotted this comet that’s been making headlines this month? If you’re in the northern hemisphere and want to catch the photogenic comet in the night sky before it disappears, read on as we explain the best way to hunt down NEOWISE with your iPhone.
What’s NEOWISE?
Comets are icy bodies from deep in the Solar System that create a trail called a coma when they near the Sun. This is…
How to watch the OnePlus Nord AR livestream
July 21, 2020
The OnePlus Nord launch will be the very first to occur as an AR livestream event across devices.
Clearly the firm is insistent on breaking the mold with their mid-range smartphone, which might mean an entirely different launch event than we’ve become accustomed to. There…
Researchers’ AI system strips identifiable attributes like gender from speech recordings
July 21, 2020
In a study accepted to the 2020 International Conference on Machine Learning last week, researchers at the Chalmers University of Technology and the RISE Research Institutes of Sweden propose a privacy-preserving technique that learns to obfuscate attributes like gender in…
Samsung’s Galaxy Note 20, the step-down model from the top-of-the-line Note 20 Ultra, has leaked in a new 360-degree render thanks to tipster Evan Blass. The render shows off a handset with a much flatter screen than what we’re expecting from the Ultra, and the rear camera module also appears to lack the Ultra’s fourth sensor, which is speculated to be either a 3D ToF sensor or a laser…
Here are the OnePlus Buds in three colors
July 20, 2020
OnePlus has already confirmed it will be launching its first pair of truly wireless earbuds next week alongside the affordable Nord smartphone. Today, we’ve uncovered images of the OnePlus Buds, offering the best look to date.
Diving into an APK from the latest OnePlus 8…
This week’s top stories: iOS 13.6 released with Car Key, Apple previews new emoji, more
July 19, 2020
In this week’s top stories: iOS 13.6 released to everyone, Apple faces a steep penalty from Samsung, a brief look at new emoji coming this year, and much more. Read on for all of this week’s biggest news.
As iOS 14 beta testing continues, Apple also this week released…
While we have all been focused on facial recognition as the poster child for AI ethics, another concerning form of AI has quietly emerged and rapidly advanced during COVID-19: AI-enabled employee surveillance at home. Though we are justifiably worried about being watched while out in public, we are now increasingly being observed in our homes.
Surveillance of employees is hardly new. This started…
