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iOS apps crashing on opening – here’s a fix

July 10, 2020
We noted earlier that we’re again seeing a number of iOS apps crashing as soon as they open, thanks to a bug in the Facebook SDK. Even if you don’t have the Facebook app installed, apps which use this SDK access it when they open, and then promptly crash. Fortunately, there is an easy fix for now … The secret is to block apps from accessing the Facebook domain. There are a number of ways of…
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AI researchers create testing tool to find bugs in NLP from Amazon, Google, and Microsoft

July 9, 2020
AI researchers have created a language-model testing tool that has discovered major bugs in commercially available cloud AI offerings from Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. Yesterday, a paper detailing the CheckList tool received the Best Paper award from organizers of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) conference. The ACL conference, which took place online this week, is one of the…
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iOS 14 on iPhone: Mirror front facing camera selfies

July 9, 2020
When you take a selfie photo on the iPhone camera, the viewfinder shows the mirrored version of the front-facing camera. This is because people are used to seeing themselves mirrored, such as in the reflection of a mirror. When the photo is taken though, the original source image is saved to the Photos library so the preview doesn’t actually match the final photo. In iOS 14, you can change this…
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Google’s Data QnA is an AI service that helps business users get answers to analytical queries

July 8, 2020
Google today unveiled Data QnA, a service in private alpha that’s designed to help users get answers to analytical queries through natural language questions. Based on the Analyza system developed at Google Research, Data QnA automatically performs semantic parsing and mapping to data sets up to petabytes in size, and it can be embedded in chatbots, spreadsheets, and business intelligence…
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