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This Cameraman Outran the Sprinters in a 100m Race

June 12, 2021
Sports photographers and videographers usually work stealthily in the background, documenting athletes without distracting from the competition, but one cameraman in China stole the show after he outran the sprinters in a 100m race. The college student videographer at Datong University in northern China’s Shanxi province was tasked with shooting the 100-meter sprint from up close — he was…
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Awesomely Weird Alibaba EV of the Week: A $4,000, 9-passenger electric mini-van

June 12, 2021
This week’s entry in the Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week series isn’t a minivan, it’s a mini-van. And amazingly, the company claims it can carry up to nine passengers – though you might need to start measuring each other if you plan to actually cram that many people into this little electric van. You see, this definitely isn’t a full-size van, even though you might…
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GamingNews

Activision Blizzard discloses environment, social, and governance efforts

June 12, 2021
Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Activision Blizzard has released its first-ever report on its Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) commitments. The report focuses on how the company is championing its people, advancing more diverse and inclusive communities, and helping to protect our planet. What does that mean? The big video game publisher said…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Transform 2021 puts the spotlight on women in AI

June 12, 2021
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…
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This AI system learned to understand videos by watching YouTube

June 12, 2021
Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Humans understand events in the world contextually, performing what’s called multimodal reasoning across time to make inferences about the past, present, and future. Given text and an image that seems innocuous when considered separately — e.g., “Look how many people love you” and a picture of a barren desert —…
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