AI & RoboticsNews

LumApps raises $70 million to fuel development of AI for its workplace collaboration platform

January 22, 2020
LumApps has raised a $70 million round of venture capital as the Paris-based startup seeks to bring more AI and machine learning capabilities to its workplace collaboration platform. The company’s Social Intranet service is deployed internally by companies with the goal of connecting employees so they can share information and communicate across all departments. Social Intranet integrates with…
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MobileNews

Apple reportedly asks TSMC to increase A13 chip production to keep up with iPhone 11 demand

January 22, 2020
Apple is reportedly asking its chipmaker TSMC to increase production of the A13 processor due to higher-than-anticipated iPhone 11 demand. reports that the iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro are selling particularly well in China. The report says that the demand for iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro is “outperforming the market and Apple’s expectations.” In turn, Apple is asking TSMC to increase…
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GamingNews

Half-Life games are free on Steam until March

January 21, 2020
With the first Half-Life game in more than a decade set to come out in March, series creator Valve has made every game in the franchise free to play for the next two months. As long you have Steam installed on your Windows, Mac or Linux computer, you can play all of Gordon Freeman’s adventures, including Half-Life and its excellent Opposing Force expansion, as well as Half-Life…
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AI & RoboticsNews

IBM’s biology-inspired AI generates hash codes faster than classical approaches

January 21, 2020
Ever heard of FlyHash? It’s an algorithm inspired by fruit flies’ olfactory circuits that’s been shown to generate hash codes — numeric representations of objects — with superior performance compared with classical algorithms. Unfortunately, because FlyHash uses random projections, it can’t learn from data. To overcome this limitation, researchers at Princeton, the University of San…
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