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NVIDIA's RTX Studio driver speeds up ray-traced V-Ray rendering

November 20, 2019
When you see a particularly shiny, photorealistic 3D scene, there’s a good chance it was created on Autodesk’s 3DS Max or Maya using Chaos Group’s V-Ray renderer. It can take a long time for workstations to crunch through V-Ray scenes, however, so NVIDIA has just unveiled an instant speedup. If you have an NVIDIA GeForce RTX or Quadro RTX card, the latest Studio driver will speed…
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Google Assistant’s latest feature is a personalized audio news feed

November 20, 2019
Starting today, you can ask Google Assistant to “play me to the news” and it’ll create a curated playlist of audio news stories. The feature, called Your News Update, is available on any phone or smart speaker with access to Google Assistant. Each update will start with a couple of short, general interest news bites before transitioning to longer-form stories. For example, if…
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Xiaomi’s Xiao AI assistant passes 49.9 million users

November 20, 2019
Today marked the kickoff of Xiaomi’s annual Mi Developer conference in Beijing, and the tech giant wasted no time in announcing updates across its AI portfolio. It took the wraps off the latest release of Mobile AI Compute Engine (MACE), its open source machine learning…
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Jigsaw releases data set to help develop AI that detects toxic comments

November 20, 2019
Mitigating prejudicial and abusive behavior online is no easy feat, given the level of toxicity in some communities. More than one in five respondents in a recent survey reported being subjected to physical threats, and nearly one in five experienced sexual harassment, stalking, or sustained harassment. Of those who experienced harassment, upwards of 20% said it was the result of their gender…
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Porsche CEO talks iPhone vs Android popularity among owners in the United States and China

November 20, 2019
Speaking today at the Automobility conference in Los Angeles, Porsche’s North American president and CEO, Klaus Zellmer, touched on the popularity of iPhone and Android among Porsche owners. Zellmer also explained how those statistics affect development of Porsche features. The executive explained that among Porsche owners in the United States, 91% use an Apple device. That’s a very high…
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