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MIT and IBM develop AI that recommends documents based on topic

December 20, 2019
Even the best text-parsing recommendation algorithms can be stymied by data sets of a certain size. In an effort to to deliver faster, better classification performance than the bulk of existing methods, a team at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab and MIT’s Geometric Data Processing Group devised a technique that combines popular AI tools including embeddings and optimal transport. They say that their…
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Motorola delays foldable Razr pre-orders, launch citing high demand

December 20, 2019
You’re reading 9to5Google — experts who break news about Google and its surrounding ecosystem, day after day. Be sure to check out our homepage for all the latest news, and follow 9to5Google on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to stay in the loop. Don’t know where to start? Check out our exclusive stories, reviews, how-tos, and subscribe to our YouTube channel The original unveiling of the…
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AI Weekly: Machine learning’s role in climate change

December 20, 2019
Climate change is the most existential threat humanity faces today, and AI can solve problems in unprecedented ways. It only makes sense that we use the latter to work on the former. That was a significant sub-theme of NeurIPS 2019, highlighted in particular by the Tackling…
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Twitter fixes an Android bug that could have allowed hackers to hijack accounts

December 20, 2019
Twitter has updated its Android app to fix a security vulnerability that could have allowed someone to see nonpublic information about your account, as well as take control of it to send tweets and direct messages. According to a blog post from the company, taking advantage of the bug involved “a complicated process” of inserting malicious code into the restricted storage areas of the…
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2020 iPhones to have sensor-shift image stabilization

December 20, 2019
The 2020 iPhones are expected to bring a significant upgrade over its predecessors in 2019 but the latest rumor sounds more like an under the hood improvement. According to industry observers, the new iPhones would use sensor-shift image stabilization technology instead of the conventional stabilization of the optics. iPhones – and smartphones in general – normally rely on optical…
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