Lenovo has updated its ThinkPad line with conventional and flexible laptops powered by Intel’s 10th Gen vPro processors. However, select models can be configured with AMD’s Ryzen 4000 PRO Mobile processors instead — based on some benchmarks, the Ryzen 4000 line’s flagship eight-core, 16 thread chip is potentially faster than some of Intel’s processors —…
U.K.’s top cop calls for government to legislate police use of AI
February 25, 2020
(Reuters) — Britain’s most senior police officer on Monday called on the government to create a legal framework for police use of new technologies such as artificial intelligence.
Speaking about live facial recognition, which police in London started using in January…
Apple dives deep into specs for the Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR
February 25, 2020
You probably know the basics of what the Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR have to offer, but Apple is more than a little eager to help if you have any lingering questions. The company has posted white papers for both the Mac Pro (PDF) and Pro Display XDR (PDF) that dive deep…
While MWC was canceled this year, that’s not stopping Android manufacturers from announcing the latest and greatest. Today, Realme has launched its new Realme X50 Pro 5G and it packs quite a lot at an affordable price.
Realme is popular in some markets thanks to affordable devices that still have great hardware. The X50 Pro 5G is the company’s latest flagship and it’s packed with the…
NeurIPS requires AI researchers to account for societal impact and financial conflicts of interest
February 24, 2020
For the first time ever, researchers who submit papers to NeurIPS, one of the biggest AI research conferences in the world, must now state the “potential broader impact of their work” on society as well as any financial conflict of interest, conference organizers told…
Google today launched Android Studio 3.6, the latest version of its integrated development environment (IDE), with a specific focus on “addressing quality in primarily code editing and debugging use cases.” This release is the first release since Project Marble, a fancy…
HTC is apparently planning to launch a 5G smartphone this year
February 24, 2020
Over the past few years, the smartphone industry has changed dramatically and lost some players. HTC is a shell of what it once was, but the company isn’t completely done with smartphones. In a recent interview, HTC confirmed it has plans to launch a 5G smartphone this year.
Speaking with (via ), HTC’s CEO confirmed some of the company’s plans in smartphones for 2020. HTC is apparently…
Android 11 is still months from its final version, but the first Developer Preview has shown us a lot of what Google has in store. One potential casualty of Android 11, though, might be the apps that let you tweak or customize the navigation bar.
Over the past few years…
Cyberpunk 2077 supports Xbox One and Series X cross-buy
February 24, 2020
Xbox boss Phil Spencer revealed today how the company’s gaming ecosystem is going to work going forward. In addition to the powerful new Xbox Series X hardware, Spencer detailed Smart Delivery. This initiative ensures that if you buy a first-party Microsoft game on Xbox…
Google’s AI detects adversarial attacks against image classifiers
February 24, 2020
Defenses against adversarial attacks, which in the context of AI refer to techniques that fool models through malicious input, are increasingly being broken by “defense-aware” attacks. In fact, most state-of-the-art methods claiming to detect adversarial attacks have been counteracted shortly after their publication. To break the cycle, researchers at the University of California, San Diego…
