AI & RoboticsNews

Google’s Data QnA is an AI service that helps business users get answers to analytical queries

July 8, 2020
Google today unveiled Data QnA, a service in private alpha that’s designed to help users get answers to analytical queries through natural language questions. Based on the Analyza system developed at Google Research, Data QnA automatically performs semantic parsing and mapping to data sets up to petabytes in size, and it can be embedded in chatbots, spreadsheets, and business intelligence…
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MobileNews

Google Discover not loading for some on Android due to sign-in error

May 20, 2020
Discover provides a feed of personalized articles that are usually relevant to your interests. A sign-in error where no stories load is plaguing Google Discover on Android today. The scrollable list of cards, content suggestions, and weather is accessible to the left of the homescreen on some Android devices, and available for everyone in the Google app. Over the course of today, a number of…
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GamingNews

Intellivision taps Xbox veteran J Allard as global managing director

May 14, 2020
Intellivision Entertainment has hired Xbox veteran J Allard as its global managing director. Allard will report to Intellivision CEO Tommy Tallarico, and he will take charge of a wide variety of operations that are critical in launching the company’s retro game console, the Intellivision Amico, which debuts on October 10 this year (10-10-20). The original Intellivision was a game console from…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Waymo’s AI uses vectors to predict pedestrian, cyclist, and driver behavior

May 14, 2020
Today, a week after its cars resumed testing on public roads and days after it raised $750 million in capital, Waymo took the wraps off an AI model it claims “significantly” improved its driverless systems’ ability to predict the behavior of pedestrians, cyclists, and drivers. Called VectorNet, it ostensibly provides more accurate projections while requiring less compute compared with…
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