AI & RoboticsNews

Researchers propose Falcon, a privacy-preserving communication protocol for AI training and inference

April 11, 2020
In an academic paper published this week on the preprint server Arxiv.org, a team of researchers from Princeton, Microsoft, the nonprofit Algorand Foundation, and Technion propose Falcon, an end-to-end framework for secure computation of AI models on distributed systems. They claim that it’s the first secure C++ framework to support high-capacity AI models and batch normalization, a technique…
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GamingNews

Call of Duty: Warzone has hit 50 million downloads in a month

April 11, 2020
Working from home has never been better thanks to Call of Duty: Warzone. Activision has announced that the battle royale version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare has now hit 50 million downloads in the month since its debut on March 10. That’s an astonishing achievement for a free-to-play game, which is about the same as what Electronic Arts and Respawn Entertainment hit with the debut of Apex…
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MobileNews

LG Style3 unveiled in Japan: a mid-ranger with S845 chipset, 6.1" QHD+ OLED display

April 10, 2020
LG just unveiled a curious mid-ranger for Japan’s DoCoMo – the Style3. This is not to be confused with the Stylo series, there’s no stylus on this one. The phone will be released in June at a price of just over JPY 38,000 ($350/€320). LG Style3 in Mirror Black and Aurora White The curious part is this – the phone is powered by a Snapdragon 845 chipset. It may be two generations old…
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MobileNews

Oppo Ace 2 5G to have 90Hz display

April 10, 2020
Oppo is expected to launch the Ace 2 5G on April 13, and yes, you read that correctly, the Reno moniker is gone from the name. The company has been heavily teasing the phone and now is has posted some more specs online. The Oppo Ace 2 will have a display with 90Hz refresh rate and 180Hz touch sampling rate. The image posted by Oppo on Weibo also reveals second-generation 4D vibration and 4D…
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