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Microsoft, White House, and Allen Institute release coronavirus data set for medical and NLP researchers

March 16, 2020
The COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19), a repository of more than 29,000 scholarly articles about coronavirus family viruses from around the world, is being released today for free. The result of work by Microsoft Research, the Allen Institute for AI, the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), White House Office of Science and Technology (OSTP), and others…
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New OnePlus logo pops up online w/ simplified design

March 16, 2020
With its launch of the OnePlus 7T last year, the company started to revamp its brand slightly with some simplified designs. Now, it appears OnePlus is preparing to launch a new logo for 2020, and it’s leaked a bit early. Through a Chinese patent office, OnePlus’ new…
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Nvidia researchers use AI to teach robots how to hand objects to humans

March 16, 2020
In a preprint research paper published this week, Nvidia researchers propose an approach for human-to-robot handovers in which the robot meets the human halfway, classifies the human’s grasp, and plans a trajectory to take the object from the human’s hand. They claim it results in more fluent handovers compared with baselines, and they say it could inform the design of collaborative warehouse…
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GamingNews

Nintendo will show off Switch indie games on March 17

March 16, 2020
Nintendo announced that it will host an Indie World broadcast at 10 a.m. Pacific on March 17. You can watch it here. In the past, these video presentations have coincided with the Game Developers Conference. But even with that event cancelled this year (it would’ve started…
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Xbox Series X specs revealed: Here’s what matters and why

March 16, 2020
Microsoft revealed more details about its upcoming next-gen console this morning, and that includes the full Xbox Series X specs. But while it’s always fun to stare blankly at a list of gigabytes and gigahertz, let’s dive in and pick apart what matters. Here is the full list of the Xbox Series X specifications direct from Microsoft: Above: Xbox Series X has got it where it counts…
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Xbox Series X’s ‘Quick Resume’ demo is better than magic

March 16, 2020
Microsoft is showing off many of the details of its upcoming next-gen console in the lead up to that system’s holiday release. And one of the key new features it’s demonstrating is the Xbox Series X’s Quick Resume technology. This enables you to continue playing multiple games from a suspended save point. And since the Xbox Series X has backward compatibility, the feature works with existing…
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