AI & RoboticsNews

Dewo uses AI to minimize digital distractions

January 16, 2020
The average person is distracted every 40 seconds when working in front of a computer. Indeed, even the most productive workers get only 11 minutes on average between interruptions. Increasingly, with experiments like Digital Wellbeing and Screen Time, tech giants are advancing usage limits as a potential remedy. But if you ask Mathias Mikkelsen, CEO and founder of Oslo, Norway- and Pune…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Apple just bought a low-power AI startup

January 16, 2020
Apple has acquired another Seattle-based AI startup, Xnor.ai. The startup specializes in low-power edge-based tools that allow AI to operate on devices, rather than in the cloud. The tech could allow Apple to bring edge-based AI software to future iPhone models. Apple is…
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TicPods 2 Pro review: Still a solid Android alternative to Apple AirPods [Video]

January 16, 2020
Mobvoi has redesigned and refined the TicPods 2 Pro to offer a better overall experience while separating its truly wireless earbuds into two distinct price-points. The first generation TicPods managed to be one of the first solid alternatives to Apple’s AirPods for Android smartphone owners. A lot has changed since the first generation hit the market, there is far more competition in the…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Apple acquires edge AI startup Xnor

January 16, 2020
Apple has acquired AI startup Xnor.ai, a source familiar with the matter told VentureBeat today. Xnor focuses on the efficient deployment of AI in edge devices like smartphones, cameras, and drones. Apple reportedly paid roughly $200 million for the company, according to…
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Trump’s iPhone decryption demands illustrate the dangers of a low-tech president

January 16, 2020
No one would knowingly hire an accountant who had trouble with math, or an English teacher who couldn’t read. Yet America — one of the world’s highest-tech countries — keeps electing presidents who are conspicuously behind the times with technology, and as Donald Trump’s latest dip into a major tech debate illustrates, the entire world may be in for a reckoning because of it. Last…
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Ninja is getting his own skin in 'Fortnite'

January 15, 2020
The rise of Fortnite has coincided with that of Tyler “Ninja” Blevins. While the streamer/pro gamer had a sizable following before the battle royale exploded in popularity, he became Fortnite‘s best-known player and a megastar on Twitch (until he defected…
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US-China trade deal to be signed today would end iPhone tariff threat

January 15, 2020
US president Donald Trump and Chinese vice premier Liu He are due to sign a US-China trade deal later this morning that formally eliminates the threat of tariffs being applied to iPhones imported into the US. The planned 15% tariffs, which would have applied to iPhones, iPads, and MacBooks, were suspended last month pending the agreement, along with even higher tariffs on desktop Macs, AirPods…
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