It’s Earth Day 2020, and that means there’s pretty much no better day than today to think about how your iPhone, iPad, MacBook, or other Apple device will affect the planet. Whether it’s an old iPhone 5 sitting in a drawer that you want to recycle, or a relatively new Apple Watch that you’d like to sell to upgrade to the latest model, we can help you make sure your old devices end up in…
Steam’s top 20 new games for March 2020
April 23, 2020
Valve Software is updating everyone about the top new releases on its Steam PC digital platform. Steam’s March 2020 once again illustrates its global reach. The games in the top 20 (and top 5 new free releases) come from 14 different countries. This ensures the developers…
Granulate, a startup developing a platform that optimizes computing infrastructure in real time, today announced that it raised $12 million, bringing its total raised to date to $15.6 million. The company’s products could reduce the time engineers spend fine-tuning the…
QuillBot, a startup developing AI tools that intelligently rewrite text, today announced that it raised $4 million in financing. Fresh capital in hand, the cofounders hope to make QuillBot’s platform a one-stop editing shop, with modules that will summarize information from articles and complete paragraphs by synthesizing sentences informed by intent. QuillBot also plans to establish an R&D…
H1 Insights raises $12.9 million for AI that helps companies find health care professionals
April 23, 2020
H1 Insights, a startup developing a platform that connects health care and life science professionals and companies, today announced that it raised $12.9 million. With the equity funding, the company plans to further develop its products, which tap AI and machine learning to…
AI researchers from MIT, Intel, and Canadian AI initiative CIFAR have found high levels of stereotypical bias from some of the most popular pretrained models like Google’s BERT and XLNet, OpenAI’s GPT-2, and Facebook’s RoBERTa. The analysis was performed as part of the…
Google today announced the release of English-to-Spanish and Finnish-, Hungarian-, and Persian-to-English gender-specific translations in Google Translate that leverage a new paradigm to address gender bias by rewriting or post-editing initial translations. The tech giant claims the approach is more scalable than an earlier technique underpinning Google Translate’s gender-specific…
In a pair of papers published on the preprint server Arxiv.org this week, Google and University of California, Berkeley researchers describe new AI and machine learning techniques that enable robots to adapt to never-before-seen tasks and grasp occluded objects. The first…
Valve revealed today that its latest Steam Labs experiment is optimizing its digital gaming store’s search engine.
Steam is the world’s largest digital PC store. It’s important that its users can easily discover new games, both for Valve and the publishers that use…
(Reuters) — Apple is planning to fix a flaw that a security firm said may have left more than half a billion iPhones vulnerable to hackers. The bug, which also exists on iPads, was discovered by ZecOps, a San Francisco-based mobile security forensics company, while it was investigating a sophisticated cyberattack against a client that took place in late 2019. Zuk Avraham, ZecOps’ chief…
