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Google’s Pigeon crowdsourced transit app adds five more cities, Android waitlist

Last year, Google’s Area 120 incubator introduced a Waze-like crowdsourcing app for public transit in New York City. Pigeon for iOS is now available in five more US cities, while an Android app is coming. Launched September 2018, Pigeon is a “crowdsourced transit app that provides better real-time information for riders, by riders, to give people around the world access to accurate transit…
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AnTuTu announces the best performing Android phones in October

AnTuTu released its latest top 10 lists for the best performing phones for October. Previously the benchmarking tool only revealed the top flagship phones but now there is a separate top 10 list for the midrange segment as well. The compiled results are based on the average…
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NVIDIA's AI will help USPS handle packages 10 times faster

The US Postal Service (USPS) delivers an estimated 146 billion pieces of mail annually, including 6 billion packages. In an attempt to process package data more efficiently, USPS is experimenting with AI. Today, NVIDIA announced that it will provide USPS with its AI tech. NVIDIA claims its system will process package data 10-times faster and with higher accuracy. For months, engineering teams…
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GamingNews

Bandai takes a cue from Nintendo in its new DIY kit for kids

Kids today are growing up with a lot of screens in their lives, despite the advice of pediatricians. One of the things they get a lot less of in playing with devices is the development of more tactile skills, which are usually learned by manipulating toys and other physical…
AI & RoboticsNews

Facebook details wav2vec, an AI algorithm that uses raw audio to improve speech recognition

Automatic speech recognition, or ASR, is a foundational part of not only assistants like Apple’s Siri, but dictation software such as Nuance’s Dragon and customer support platforms like Google’s Contact Center AI. It’s the thing that enables machines to parse utterances for key phrases and words and that allows them to distinguish people by their intonations and pitches. Perhaps it goes…
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Xiaomi Mi CC9 Pro goes official w/ first 108-megapixel smartphone camera

The Xiaomi Mi CC9 Pro has gone official with a landmark 108-megapixel penta-camera setup. Beyond the headline camera sensor, the Xiaomi Mi CC9 Pro has mainly mid-range specifications including a Snapdragon 730G chipset, 6/8GB of RAM, 128/256GB of internal storage, and a massive 5,260mAh battery. That battery can be topped up at an impressive speed too, as it comes with a 30W fast charger in the…
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