AI & RoboticsNews

Congress probes how AI will impact U.S. economic recovery

September 11, 2020
AI has the potential to improve human lives and a company’s bottom line, but it can also accelerate inequality and eliminate jobs during the worst U.S. recession on record since the Great Depression. It’s that dual promise and peril that led members of the House Budget Committee to hold a hearing today in Congress to discuss the impact of AI on economic recovery, the future of work, and the…
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GamingNews

All the biggest announcements from Ubisoft’s Forward event

September 11, 2020
Ubisoft just debuted another one of its Forward events, where the company previewed more upcoming titles and details on its fall lineup, including a better look at Immortals Fenyx Rising, the return of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game, and the announcement of new games…
GamingNews

Epic says ‘Sign In with Apple’ will keep working for Fortnite after all

September 11, 2020
Just yesterday, Epic said that as soon as Friday, Apple would no longer let people use its single sign-on solution, “Sign In with Apple,” to access their Epic Games account. That would mean that anyone who relied on their Apple credentials to log in to Epic services like Fortnite and the Epic Games Store would lose access when Apple pulled the plug, unless they changed their account first. But…
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MobileNews

DetailsPro is a new app that lets developers create SwiftUI projects on iPhone and iPad

September 11, 2020
Apple doesn’t offer any developer tools for iOS users besides Swift Playgrounds, but there are some great third-party options available that let developers start a project right on an iPhone or iPad. A recently released app called DetailsPro brings the tools you need to start designing an app in SwiftUI using just an iOS device. The main purpose of the app is to enable anyone to create SwiftUI…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Microsoft’s updated DeepSpeed can train trillion-parameter AI models with fewer GPUs

September 11, 2020
Microsoft today released an updated version of its DeepSpeed library that introduces a new approach to training AI models containing trillions of parameters, the variables internal to the model that inform its predictions. The company claims the technique, dubbed 3D parallelism, adapts to the varying needs of workload requirements to power extremely large models while balancing scaling…
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