MobileNews

Gboard update causes crashing issue on some Android phones

December 17, 2019
Google’s keyboard for Android, Gboard, is full of useful features and works really well. However, the latest update to Gboard is causing a crashing issue for some Android smartphones which is even going as far as locking some users out of their devices. Growing threads on Google’s support forums, Reddit, and Twitter confirm that something is wrong with the latest Gboard update. The update…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Google AI tool helps conservationists (and the public) track wildlife

December 17, 2019
Google is quickly putting its wildlife-spotting AI to good use. The internet giant has launched a Wildlife Insights tool that helps conservationists track wildlife by not only parsing their photos, but sharing them in a searchable public website. The AI automatically tosses out photos that are highly unlikely to include animals and tries to label the animals it does spot, dramatically speeding…
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GamingNews

Electronic Arts has earned the Star Wars license

December 17, 2019
It has taken more than six years, but Electronic Arts has finally proven itself worthy of the Star Wars video game license. The company only shipped three games since making the deal in May 2013. But after a humbling experience with Battlefront II, it has spent years turning…
AI & RoboticsNews

Anyscale raises $20.6 million to simplify writing AI and ML applications with Ray

December 17, 2019
Anyscale, a company promising to let application developers more easily build so-called “distributed” applications that are behind most AI and machine learning efforts, has raised $20.6 million from investors in a first round of funding. The company has some credibility off the bat because it’s cofounded by Ion Stoica, a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Voximplant raises $10 million to automate call campaigns with AI

December 17, 2019
Can the cloud-based unified communications market, which is anticipated to reach $167.1 billion by 2025, be materially transformed by AI? Alexey Aylarov, Andrey Kovalenko, and Sergey Poroshin firmly believe so. They’re the founders of Voximplant, a startup developing products that imbue web and mobile apps with voice, text, and video chat. Voximplant provides the required infrastructure and…
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