AI & RoboticsNews

Google researchers train AI to distinguish 9 Indian languages

September 30, 2019
The world speaks thousands of languages — roughly 6,500, to be exact — and systems from the likes of Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon become better at recognizing them each day. The trouble is, not all of those languages have large corpora available, which can make training the data-hungry models underpinning those systems difficult. That’s the reason Google researchers are exploring…
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GamingNews

Minecraft Marketplace August 2019: Lucky Blocks tops the charts

September 30, 2019
The Minecraft Marketplace didn’t have any major sales or events in August, but players still racked up 7,167,675 downloads for the month. That’s behind the 10.9 million in July and 7.9 million in June. But the store is up significantly from just 373,361 downloads during…
MobileNews

iWork for iOS updated to take advantage of iOS 13 and iPadOS 13

September 30, 2019
Apple has released updated versions of its iWork apps for iPhone and iPad to take advantage of new features that are available with iOS 13 and iPadOS 13. New features for the iWork iOS suite include Dark Mode support, external drive support, multitasking support in iPadOS 13, the ability to use custom fonts from the App Store, and much more for iPhone and iPad. Pages 5.2 release…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Even the tech expert from 'Mr. Robot' can’t figure out this iPhone hack

September 30, 2019
If your dad were the technical advisor for the realistic hacks on Mr. Robot and he lovingly micromanaged your gadgets, you’d probably feel pretty badass about the security of your personal devices. So when one of Marc Rogers’ kids had their iPhone pickpocketed at San Francisco Pride this year, things took an unexpected turn when tech-savvy thieves pulled off hacking tricks that had…
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MobileNews

New Nvidia Shield TV hardware passes through Bluetooth SIG hinting at coming release

September 30, 2019
For the past three months, we’ve been tracking what appears to be a next-generation Nvidia Shield TV with updated hardware that might be in a dongle form factor. Now this device has received Bluetooth certification, putting it one step closer to release and confirming some details. Nvidia’s Shield TV series has been accepted as some of the best Android TV devices on the market, between…
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