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How iOS 15 will make your iPhone even more useful with SharePlay, Find My upgrades, and more

Earlier this week at WWDC 2021, Apple announced and presented a preview of iOS 15. The new operating system for iPhones will be available a few months from now, but the first beta is available for developers now and one thing is for sure: iOS 15 will make your iPhone even more useful with a handful of quality-of-life improvements. During the keynote, Apple focused a lot on FaceTime, iMessage…
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Researchers Use Smartphone Camera to Identify Acne-Causing Bacteria

Researchers from the University of Washington have developed a way to use smartphone photos to identify potentially harmful bacteria on skin and in the mouth. The method can visually identify microbes on the skin that contribute to acne as well as those that cause gingivitis and dental plaques. The team was led by Ruikang Wang, a University of Washington professor of bioengineering and…
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Transform 2021 puts the spotlight on women in AI

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. VentureBeat is proud to bring back the Women in AI Breakfast and Awards online for Transform 2021. In the male-dominated tech industry, women are constantly faced with the gender equity gap. There is so much work in the tech industry to become more inclusive of bridging the gender gap while at the same time creating a…
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AI Weekly: AI helps companies design physical products

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. This week in a paper published in the journal Nature, researchers at Google detailed how they used AI to design the next generation of tensor processing units (TPU), the company’s application-specific integrated circuits optimized for AI workloads. While the work wasn’t novel — Google’s been refining the technique…
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