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eBay CTO: AI is now an ‘ecosystem’ for us

July 18, 2020
While eBay could have used any number of existing AI platforms to enhance its various products, the company instead elected to build its own AI system — dubbed Krylov — in-house and make it open source for anyone to use. That decision appears to be paying off. The San Jose-based company has made no secret of its AI ambitions over the past four years, hoovering up technical talent via…
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Adobe CIO Stoddard: AI bots can ‘cut toil,’ reduce demands for IT help

July 16, 2020
While average people know Adobe mostly as the company behind Photoshop, their consumption of digital and printed content created by Adobe apps is incalculable, thanks largely to its Creative Cloud of increasingly AI-driven professional applications. So Adobe CIO Cynthia Stoddard’s fireside chat at VentureBeat’s Transform 2020 digital conference was of special interest today, as the senior…
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NBC’s Peacock launches on Android, Chromecast, and Android TV w/ 3-month free trial

July 15, 2020
As the streaming wars continue to heat up, NBC Universal is today launching its option, Peacock TV. The new service will be the eventual home of hits like The Office and Parks and Recreation and now, it’s available on all of Google’s platforms. Here’s how to get Peacock TV on Android, Chromecast, and Android TV. NBC Univeral’s Peacock TV launches with thousands of hours of content…
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Graphcore claims its M2000 AI computer hits 1 petaflop

July 15, 2020
Last Chance: Register for Transform, VB’s AI event of the year, hosted online July 15-17. Graphcore, a U.K.-based company developing accelerators for AI workloads, this morning unveiled the second generation of its Intelligence Processing Units (IPUs), which will…
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iOS 14: How to hide iPhone app pages for a clean and customized UI

July 14, 2020
Along with all-new home screen widgets, iOS 14 offers the ability to remove app pages (without deleting apps) as another way to customize your experience. Follow along for a look at how to hide iPhone app pages for a cleaner setup. Up until iOS 14, the main ways to organize and clean up your home screen and other app pages have been putting apps in folders, deleting them, or using the offload…
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