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Barclays: iPhone 12 to feature ‘refreshed’ Face ID, 3D time-of-flight sensors

Analysts from Barclays are out with a new investor note, in which they predict that Apple’s iPhone 12 lineup will include upgraded Face ID sensors, among other changes. The analysts also corroborate claims made by Ming-Chi Kuo. According to the Barclays note obtained by CNBC, the iPhone 12 lineup will include “refreshed” Face ID. What exactly this means is unclear, but theoretically it…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Amazon details the AI behind Alexa’s Whisper Mode

In October 2018, months after a brief reveal, Amazon brought Whisper Mode to select third- and first-party Alexa devices. It expanded the feature to all locales in November 2019, such that all smart home appliances powered by Alexa — the company’s virtual assistant — now respond to whispered speech by whispering back. Amazon was a bit light on the technical details initially, save that…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Want optimized AI? Rethink your storage infrastructure and data pipeline

This article is part of the Technology Insight series, made possible with funding from Intel. ________________________________________________________________________________________   Most discussions of AI infrastructure start and end with compute hardware — the GPUs, general-purpose CPUs, FPGAs, and tensor processing units responsible for training complex algorithms and making predictions…
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GamingNews

Tencent’s TiMi J3 studio cracked the code on adapting Call of Duty for mobile

Mobile games are expected to generate $86 billion in 2019, or 2.4 times the revenue for PC and console games, according to App Annie. But for years, Call of Duty has generated almost all of its revenues from PC and console games. But with the launch of Call of Duty: Mobile in the fall, Activision Blizzard finally has a new source of revenue for the franchise in the biggest part of the game market.
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