AI & RoboticsNews

MIT’s AI suggests that social distancing works

In a preprint academic paper published in early April, MIT researchers describe a model that quantifies the impact of quarantine measures on the spread of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus. Unlike most of the models that have so far been proposed, this one doesn’t rely on data from studies about previous outbreaks, like SARS or MERS. Instead, it taps an AI algorithm trained to capture the number…
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Clova AI Research uses unsupervised learning to deliver state-of-the-art image style transfers

AI researchers in South Korea created an AI system named U-GAT-IT, an unsupervised learning model for image-to-image translation. They said U-GAT-IT outperforms four other top generative networks created with unsupervised learning in almost every instance. Image-to-image translation can improve applications ranging from image style transfers to inpainting, the process of predicting missing pixels…
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GamingNews

Star Wars Episode l: Racer launches for PS4 and Switch on May 12

Aspyr announced today Star Wars Episode l: Racer is coming out for PlayStation 4 and Switch on May 12. Episode I: Racer is, surprise, a racing game based off of the podracing sequence from 1999’s Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. The game also released in 1999, first coming out for Nintendo 64 and PC. Versions for Dreamcast and PlayStation 2 followed in 2000. A seperate podracing game…
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ComputersNews

HP Envy 17: A laptop you can use in quarantine

It’s a hell of a time to be launching a new product, but HP is doing just that with today’s launch of its new HP Envy 17 laptop. HP is launching a new version of its veteran laptop model just in time for people to work from home. HP is targeting creators, or people who may create digital things from streams to funny videos, as those people need more powerful machines if they’re stuck working…
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