AI & RoboticsNews

AI Weekly: Introducing our ‘Power in AI’ special issue

November 8, 2019
At VentureBeat, there’s a constant internal conversation about how we can keep finding better ways to meet our mission of covering transformative technology. “AI” is usually the key word in those conversations, which increasingly revolve around issues and topics that require deeper thought, greater attention, and accountability from the Fourth Estate. To that end, we’re beginning a series…
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MobileNews

Xiaomi details the benefits of Mi Note 10's 5x camera

November 8, 2019
Xiaomi announced the Mi CC9 Pro on Tuesday, and on Wednesday it was brought to the global audience as Mi Note 10. The device has five cameras on the back, including two different telephoto units. Xiaomi posted a lengthy Friday read on Weibo, explaining how the difference in…
MobileNews

Xiaomi details the benefits of Mi Note 10's 5x camera

November 8, 2019
Xiaomi announced the Mi CC9 Pro on Tuesday, and on Wednesday it was brought to the global audience as Mi Note 10. The device has five cameras on the back, including two different telephoto units. Xiaomi posted a lengthy Friday read on Weibo, explaining how the difference in…
MobileNews

LG open-sources Auptimizer, a tool for optimizing AI models

November 8, 2019
Despite the proliferation of open source tools like Databricks’ AutoML Toolkit, Salesforce’s TransfogrifAI, and IBM’s Watson Studio AutoAI, tuning machine learning algorithms at scale remains a challenge. Finding the right hyperparameters — variables in the algorithms that help control the overall model’s performance — often involves time-consuming ancillary tasks like job scheduling…
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GamingNews

The DeanBeat: Gaming is still at the mercy of larger forces

November 8, 2019
The week was thick with gaming news, so some folks may not have noticed that Playtika, the Tel Aviv-based social casino games company, is considering going public. Caixin Global reported that Playtika is looking to go public because Giant Network Group has failed repeatedly…
MobileNews

OnePlus 7 Pro quietly loses its base and top models in the US, only 8GB remains

November 8, 2019
The OnePlus 7 Pro debuted in early 2019 with three different models available, but the company has quietly removed two of those options since the OnePlus 7T hit the market. While the rest of the world just got the OnePlus 7T Pro, the OnePlus 7 Pro is sticking around in the US for a while. The device is still one of the best Android smartphones on the market today, but if…
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MobileNews

Samsung's cheap 5G Galaxy A71 smartphone is in the works

November 8, 2019
With the advance of 5G, manufacturers are starting to develop more affordable 5G-enabled smartphones and Samsung appears to be one of the first to do so. According to inside sources, Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy A71 will be an affordable 5G device and the leaked model…
MobileNews

Readers explain why they like Samsung’s Galaxy Buds more than we did

November 8, 2019
Though he’s reviewed more than a dozen audio products for Engadget this year alone, senior news editor Billy Steele hasn’t found any he disliked more than Samsung’s Galaxy Buds. They earned a pitiful 69 from Billy, who was endlessly frustrated by their tap controls and lack of features. They took too long to pair and he wasn’t impressed by the audio quality either. However…
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