Browsing category

News

49964 posts

Latest technology news – from mobile, computing, gaming gadgets, gizmos & accessories to developments in fields like artificial intelligence & robotics.

AI & Robotics News

Hugging Face raises $15 million to build open source community for cutting-edge conversational AI

December 17, 2019

Hugging Face has announced the close of a $15 million series A funding round led by Lux Capital, with participation from Salesforce chief scientist Richard Socher and OpenAI CTO Greg Brockman, as well as Betaworks and A.Capital. New-York based Hugging Face started as a chatbot company, but then began to use Transformers, an approach to conversational AI that’s become a foundation for…

AI & Robotics News

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…

AI & Robotics News

Google’s AI can identify wildlife from trap-camera footage with up to 98.6% accuracy

December 17, 2019

With respect to climate change, poaching, and encroachment on natural habitats, some animal populations have fared far worse than others. It’s estimated that the populations of more than 4,000 species shrunk by 60% between 1970 and 2014, and a recent United Nations global…

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 that game around with tons of new content from the entire saga. And then it released one of the best of the year in Star…

AI & Robotics News

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…

Leaked Galaxy S11, S11+ screen protectors show off super-slim bezels

December 17, 2019

Earlier this month we saw a leaked screen protector which revealed thin bezels of the Samsung Galaxy S11. Now, a new set of screen guards have been leaked by reliable tipster , which reveal the super-slim bezels on the vanilla S11 as well as the Plus variant. However, while…

OxygenOS 10.0.5 rolling out for OnePlus 7T Pro w/ photo quality, RAM improvements

December 17, 2019

You’re reading 9to5Google — experts who break news about Google and its surrounding ecosystem, day after day. Be sure to check out our homepage for all the latest news, and follow 9to5Google on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to stay in the loop. Don’t know where to start? Check out our exclusive stories, reviews, how-tos, and subscribe to our YouTube channel Right off the back of the…

AI & Robotics News

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…

Realme PaySa full-stack financial services platform launched in India

December 17, 2019

Realme today launched the X2 and Buds Air true wireless earphones in India. But alongside those, the phone maker announced its full-stack financial services platform called Realme PaySa. Realme PaySa comes with four key features – free credit report, personal loans…

OnePlus turns 6, discounts the OnePlus 7 Pro, bundles free headset with 7T and 7T Pro

December 17, 2019

OnePlus is turning 6 today and is celebrating with discounts and deals for its 7-series phones. The OnePlus 7 Pro is available at a discount in most countries using the promo code 6THBIRTHDAY and comes with a free pair of Type-C Bullets earphones. Here are the prices in several countries. Note that in some countries the discount is pre-applied, in others you need to enter the code. Also, in some…