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Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip has a 180-degree hinge and begins shipping on February 14

Uncontented with one foldable phone, Samsung’s trying its hand at another — this with a flip design as opposed to the Galaxy Fold’s clamshell style. Today at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, the company announced the Galaxy Z Flip, a handset with an outward-facing display that unfurls to reveal a bendable panel within. It’s Samsung’s answer to Motorola’s reimagined…
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Samsung Galaxy S20 begins shipping March 6

At the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco this afternoon, Samsung unveiled its newest flagship series: Galaxy S20. Like S-series lineups before it, the S20 is a showcase of the company’s technological innovations, which this time around include a powerful…
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AI can be an ally in cybersecurity

Fears surrounding AI and cybersecurity reflect very real risks. AI-powered malware isn’t a threat we need to worry about right now, but attackers have become adept at manipulating AI systems to their own advantage, essentially turning them against users. Widespread manipulation of the algorithms used on social media is already causing problems in many parts of the world. And as sophisticated AI…
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Podcast: Can AI fix broken IoT and smart home security?

Podcast host John Koetsier sat down for an interview with Cujo AI VP Marcio Avillez to discuss the problem of smart device and IoT security and what we can do about it using AI technologies. Can AI help prevent distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and improve smart…
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Real-world AI threats in cybersecurity aren’t science fiction

For some, fears of AI lie in images of robot overlords and self-aware malware — the stuff of science fiction. Among the many threats we will deal with in the coming years, sentient AI taking over the world isn’t one of them. But AI that empowers cybercriminals is a very serious reality, even as some espouse the benefits of AI in cybersecurity. Over the past decade, advances in technology have…
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Microsoft’s AI automatically comments on video clips

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 interaction between videos and comments explicitly, so they’ve tended to generate irrelevant comments. That’s why a team if I…
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