If you’re familiar with Algoriddim’s processor-intensive AI features for its DJ software and the company’s close relationship with Apple, you won’t be surprised to hear there’s already an update to djay Pro AI for Mac. This release leans heavily on Apple’s M1 chip and claims some interesting new tweaks to Neural Mix functionality, inheriting the tools from its iOS counterpart. This is…
Hyundai is reportedly in talks to buy Boston Dynamics
November 26, 2020
Boston Dynamics, the robotics company behind nightmare-fuel products like Spot, may be headed to Hyundai, Bloomberg reports. Sources say that current owner Softbank is in talks with the Korean automaker. The deal could be worth up to $1 billion, though Bloomberg notes that…
AI might soon be an ally in the quest to banish wake words from voice assistants. Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a machine learning model that estimates the direction a voice is coming from, indicating your intent without the need for a special phrase…
AI can detect COVID-19 by listening to your coughs
November 26, 2020
It’s easy to be worried when you cough these days — is it COVID-19, or are you just clearing your throat? You might get a clearer answer soon. MIT researchers have developed AI that can recognize forced coughing from people who have COVID-19, even if they’re otherwise asymptomatic. The trick was to develop a slew of neural networks that can distinguish subtle changes indicative of the novel…
Save hundreds on these Python, AI and data science courses
November 26, 2020
In this age of big data, companies worldwide need to sift through the avalanche of information at their disposal to enhance their products, services and overall profitability. As such, there’s a growing demand in today’s job market for specialists who have the…
Tesla has taken another bruising for the quality of its driver assistance tech. Consumer Reports has conducted (via Reuters) a driver assistance study where Tesla’s Autopilot placed a “distant second” to GM’s Super Cruise, with a Model Y scoring 57 versus the…
Grimes and Endel made an AI-powered lullaby
November 26, 2020
Synth-pop artist and Cyberpunk 2077 cast member Grimes has teamed up with mood music startup Endel to create an AI-powered soundscape designed to help you drift off. “AI Lullaby” blends vocals and original music from Grimes with personalized sounds that an algorithm in real-time.
Grimes told the New York Times she was partly inspired to work on the project while seeking “a better…
Add another AI startup to Apple’s growing list of 2020 acquisitions. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the company bought a firm called Vilynx earlier this year. The startup had been training an AI that could understand the content of a video by looking at its…
Google Doodle honors London’s first black fireman Frank Bailey
November 26, 2020
Today’s Google Doodle in the UK is honoring yet another of Britain’s trailblazers Frank Bailey on what would have been his 95th birthday.
Born in Guyana, on this day in 1925, Frank Arthur Bailey worked on a German trade ship in the late 1940s and early 1950s. His work…
Bicycles, and especially e-bikes, are often the quickest way to cut through urban traffic. And so it makes perfect sense to see them being transformed into ambulance e-bikes for first responders.
That’s exactly what a team at the tech firm Wunderman Thompson Paris set out to do when they designed their own electric bicycle ambulance.
They partnered with the French e-mobility company Ecox…
