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Transform 2020, the AI event for enterprise, adds digital option (in response to COVID-19)

Dear VentureBeat Community, In light of the COVID-19 outbreak, we are closely monitoring developments and public health advisories that may impact our upcoming Transform 2020 conference, the leading event for business and technology leaders about how to implement AI in the enterprise. At this time, Transform will proceed this July 15-16 in San Francisco, California. But we’ve decided to host…
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How the coronavirus may reshape AI research conferences

COVID-19 officially became a global pandemic on Wednesday. As public health officials and governments respond; businesses brace for losses; and events like trade shows, SXSW, and Google’s I/O shutter around the world, the disease is also impacting scientific conferences.
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Samsung One UI 2.1 update set to come to Galaxy S10, Note plus S9 and Note 9

The release of the Samsung Galaxy S20 series also saw a minor bump up in One UI to version 2.1. At the moment, only four devices now run the slightly modified build of Android 10, but as expected, that is set to increase as Samsung is set to bring the update to older models. According to official responses on the Korean Samsung Community portal, the admittedly minor One UI 2.1 upgrade will…
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OnePlus commits $30 million to 5G development

OnePlus is committing $30 million to “scale up and upgrade” its 5G research and development efforts. The announcement comes in the same week as the Chinese smartphone maker confirmed that it would be going all-in on 5G with its next flagship smartphone lineup. “5G is a top priority in our product strategy,” OnePlus cofounder and CEO Pete Lau said in a press release. OnePlus has built a…
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Google’s Objectron uses AI to track 3D objects in 2D video

Coinciding with the kickoff of the 2020 TensorFlow Developer Summit, Google today published a pipeline — Objectron — that spots objects in 2D images and estimates their poses and sizes through an AI model. The company says it has implications for robotics, self-driving vehicles, image retrieval, and augmented reality — for instance, it could help a factory floor robot avoid obstacles in real…
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