MobileNews

New Dictation app brings advanced offline transcription capabilities to iPhone and iPad

November 7, 2019
With the introduction of iOS 13.2, Apple added new features to its speech recognition APIs that allow third-party developers to perform on-device speech recognition, even when the device is offline. Today, Blueshift is releasing its brand new Dictation app that takes advantage of this new functionality. Most transcription services send the user’s speech to a cloud service to be processed. The…
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AI & RoboticsNews

OpenAI published the tool that writes disturbingly believable fake news

November 7, 2019
In February, OpenAI announced that it had developed an algorithm that could write believable fake news and spam. Deciding that power was too dangerous to unleash, OpenAI planned a staged release so that it could offer pieces of the tech and analyze how it was used. Now, OpenAI says it has seen “no strong evidence of misuse,” and this week, it published the full AI. The AI, GPT-2, was…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Reonomy raises $60 million for AI-powered property research tools

November 7, 2019
Reonomy, a commercial real estate analytics company headquartered in New York, today announced that it’s raised $60 million in series D funding led by Georgian Partners. Existing investors including Sapphire Ventures contributed alongside Wells Fargo Strategic Capital and Citi Ventures, bringing the startup’s total capital raised to $128 million following a $30 million series C in June…
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MobileNews

Motorola Moto G8 pops up in promotional video

November 7, 2019
Towards the end of last month, Motorola released two Moto G8 variants with the G8 Plus and G8 Play and now it seems the middle version is around the corner. Thanks to a leaked promotional video posted by , we get our first look at the vanilla Moto G8 which looks quite…
GamingNews

Roblox: 60% of teens rarely discuss inappropriate online behavior with parents

November 7, 2019
60% of teens rarely discuss inappropriate online behavior with parents, according to a study of online behavior by gaming world creator Roblox. That shows there’s a failure to communicate between parents and teens. San Mateo, California-based Roblox interviewed more than 3,500 parents in the U.S. and 580 teens, and it found a pretty big disconnect. While 93% of parents say they discuss…
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