AI is no longer poised to change the world someday; it’s changing the world now. As we begin a new year and decade, VentureBeat turned to some of the keenest minds in AI to revisit progress made in 2019 and look ahead to how machine learning will mature in 2020. We spoke with PyTorch creator Soumith Chintala, University of California professor Celeste Kidd, Google AI chief Jeff Dean, Nvidia…
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Ahead of next week’s CES 2020 in Las Vegas, Dell today announced two PC updates that will improve its appeal to mobile device users: It’s officially making a laptop with built-in 5G cellular capabilities and is expanding its Mobile Connect app to support iPhone screen…
Nintendo Switch Lite 3 months later
January 3, 2020
Since Nintendo launched the Switch Lite on September 20, I have transitioned to using it as one of my primary gaming devices. And while I immediately fell in love with the dedicated handheld, I’ve had some concerns about durability. I take the Switch Lite with me everywhere. I drag it along around the house, in the car, and any other place you can think of. But I don’t keep it in a case or in…
The Nokia 9 PureView was unveiled in early 2019 with with a 2018 Snapdragon chipset. A leakster claims that HMD is trying to avoid a repeat of this situation, but that unfortunately means that the announcement of the Nokia 9.2 has been pushed back to the autumn…
Ahead of next week’s CES 2020 in Las Vegas, Dell today announced two PC updates that will improve its appeal to mobile device users: It’s officially making a laptop with built-in 5G cellular capabilities and is expanding its Mobile Connect app to support iPhone screen…
DeepMind, a UK-based artificial intelligence company purchased by Google in 2014, has turned its sights to the problem of breast cancer detection. Although breast cancer is the most common type of cancer among women, detection is difficult due to high rates of false positives (when a mammogram is judged to be abnormal even when no cancer is present) which cause distress and can lead to unnecessary…
Google Health’s AI identifies breast cancer in mammogram imagery with fewer false positives
January 1, 2020
Google Health today shared an AI model trained with more than 90,000 mammogram x-rays that achieve better results than human radiology experts while recognizing more of false negatives, the kind of images that look normal but contain breast cancer. Initial findings were…
Xiaomi’s next smartwatch, the ‘Mi Watch Color,’ has a round design
December 31, 2019
Xiaomi debuted a smartwatch based on Google’s Wear OS earlier this year in China, but its square, Apple Watch-looking design may not be for everyone. Now, Xiaomi is testing another new smartwatch with the “Mi Watch Color” which has a more traditional round…
6 AI features Microsoft added to Office in 2019
December 31, 2019
Microsoft has added so many AI-driven features to its Office productivity suite this year that we wanted to pull together a comprehensive list — but it’s not as straightforward as it might seem. Features like PowerPoint Designer, OneNote’s ink to text, and Word’s grammar and style suggestions got notable improvements, but they didn’t first show up in 2019.
That’s because Microsoft…
