AI & RoboticsNews

Sidewalk Labs launches Mesa, an AI platform designed to help commercial buildings save energy

September 22, 2020
Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs urban tech division today detailed a commercial building kit dubbed Mesa that uses real-time data and automation to optimize energy usage. Sidewalk claims it’s able to cut waste and cost while simplifying installation and management. Commercial buildings have an outsized environmental impact, Sidewalk Labs notes, making up for nearly 30% of greenhouse emissions from…
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Microsoft gets exclusive license for OpenAI’s GPT-3 language model

September 22, 2020
Microsoft today announced that it will exclusively license GPT-3, one of the most powerful language understanding models in the world, from AI startup OpenAI. In a blog post, Microsoft EVP Kevin Scott said that the new deal will allow Microsoft to leverage OpenAI’s technical innovations to develop and deliver AI solutions for customers, as well as create new solutions that harness the power of…
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MobileNews

iOS 14 jailbreak available for older devices; some newer ones likely

September 22, 2020
An iOS 14 jailbreak is now available for older devices, and the team says that it will likely support some newer ones soon. It’s from the team behind the ‘unpatchable’ checkm8 exploit which enabled a jailbreak for almost every iPhone from the iPhone 5s to the iPhone X … The previous checkra1n jailbreak was based on a hardware vulnerability found in almost every Apple A-series CPU up to…
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Scam apps see 2.4M downloads on iOS and Android, make $500k

September 22, 2020
A series of iOS and Android scam apps identified by security researchers managed to rack up a total of 2.4M downloads and make $500k thanks to promotion on TikTok and Instagram. They came to light after a report by a child … says that the apps appeared to target children. Researchers said that a tip from a child led them to discover aggressive adware and exorbitant prices lurking in iOS and…
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