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How AI is fighting, and could enable, ransomware attacks on cities

February 11, 2020
Imagine getting to a courthouse and seeing paper signs stuck to the doors with the message “Systems down.” What about police officers in the field unable to access information on laptops in their vehicles, or surgeries delayed in hospitals? That’s what can happen to a city, police department, or hospital in a ransomware attack. Ransomware is malicious software that can encrypt or control…
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Microsoft’s AI automatically comments on video clips

February 11, 2020
Generating live video captions with AI could bolster engagement on social media, or serve as a benchmark for the task of translating video to text. Preliminary work to this end has employed encoder-decoder models to generate comments, but they haven’t modeled the…
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How to watch Samsung announce the Galaxy S20 and Z Flip at Unpacked 2020 [Livestream]

February 11, 2020
Samsung is going to take the stage at Unpacked this morning in San Francisco to unveil its latest flagship products, and you can watch the event livestream right here. The show kicks off at 2PM ET/11AM PT, but we’ll start live blogging with photos from the event space and the latest news around 9AM PT. Tune in below to watch Samsung announce the Galaxy S20, Z Flip, and more… We already know…
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How to watch the Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2020 livestream

February 11, 2020
We’re mere hours away from Samsung’s 2020 Galaxy Unpacked event, which is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. Pacific (2 p.m. Eastern) at the Bill Graham Auditorium in San Francisco. Samsung will almost certainly announce new 5G-compatible flagships in its S series and a foldable phone dubbed the Galaxy Flip Z, but there might a few surprises in store. Here’s where to watch it live. There’s…
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Xiaomi confirms it will attend the MWC, details precautions

February 11, 2020
While many companies cancelled their MWC events due to the coronavirus outbreak, Xiaomi has made an announcement that it will stick to its original plan. The company tweeted a detailed list of precautions it will take to ensure the safety of its employees and the visitors to its booth. For presentations at the Xiaomi booth, the company will bring in employees from its European offices (after…
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