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Honor 30's Kirin 985 chipset gets benchmarked, scores slightly better than the Kirin 820

April 16, 2020
Today Huawei’s sub-brand Honor took the wraps off of the 30 series – comprised of the eponymous Honor 30, but also the 30 Pro and 30 Pro+. The Honor 30 is powered by the brand new Kirin 985 chipset, which hasn’t been featured on any other devices before – unlike the Kirin 990 5G that’s in the Honor 30 Pro and Pro+. Given its name, you’d expect its performance to…
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Apple kills the iPhone 8, stops selling the iPhone 8 Plus

April 16, 2020
Now that the 2020 iPhone SE is official, Apple has decided to kill the iPhone 8. First of all, yes, the company was still selling the iPhone 8, all the way up until today. Second, this makes sense when you think about it, as the iPhone SE is basically just an iPhone 8 with…
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Onfido raises $100 million to verify identities with AI

April 16, 2020
Onfido, a provider of cloud-based identity verification tools, today announced that it raised $100 million in equity financing. CEO Husayn Kassai says the bulk of the fresh capital will be put toward product R&D and global expansion, including further market penetration…
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Awake Security raises $36 million for AI that identifies network threats

April 16, 2020
Awake Security, a cybersecurity platform that analyzes network traffic to identify and assess internal and external threats, has raised $36 million in a series C round of funding led by Evolution Equity Partners. The fresh cash injection comes as cybersecurity officials warn that state-backed hackers and online criminals are taking advantage of the COVID-19 crisis. The pandemic has led millions…
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Medopad rebrands to Huma, makes acquisitions to bolster its AI health monitoring portfolio

April 16, 2020
Digital health company Medopad today announced that it’s rebranding to Huma and acquiring two companies — BioBeats and Tarilian Laser Technologies (TLT) — to add support for new biomarkers to its AI-powered patient monitoring platform. When contacted for comment, a Huma spokesperson declined to disclose the purchase price for the two companies. The acquisitions would appear to be strategic…
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Google’s AI enables robots to make decisions on the fly

April 16, 2020
In a paper published this week on the preprint server Arxiv.org, a team of researchers from Google Brain, Google X, and the University of Calfornia at Berkeley describe an extension to existing AI methods that enable an agent — for instance, a robot — to decide which action to take while performing a previous action. The idea is that modeling an agent’s behavior after that of a person or…
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