Google’s Android TV platform is great at recommending content to watch from your homescreen using its “Channels” feature. Now, Google is adding coronavirus news content to Android TV’s homescreen powered by YouTube.
In a post today on , Google highlights some ways that users can stay entertained and informed using the company’s products, including Android TV. In that collection…
Vivaldi is now officially out of beta on Android, with one of the most customizable desktop browsers based upon Chromium available as a stable release on mobile.
Announced in an official blog post, the browser might be of interest to those of you out there thanks to some…
It’s Earth Day 2020, and that means there’s pretty much no better day than today to think about how your iPhone, iPad, MacBook, or other Apple device will affect the planet. Whether it’s an old iPhone 5 sitting in a drawer that you want to recycle, or a relatively new…
Steam’s top 20 new games for March 2020
April 23, 2020
Valve Software is updating everyone about the top new releases on its Steam PC digital platform. Steam’s March 2020 once again illustrates its global reach. The games in the top 20 (and top 5 new free releases) come from 14 different countries. This ensures the developers from the around the world have access to players, but it also means that diverse audiences can find appealing content on…
H1 Insights raises $12.9 million for AI that helps companies find health care professionals
April 23, 2020
H1 Insights, a startup developing a platform that connects health care and life science professionals and companies, today announced that it raised $12.9 million. With the equity funding, the company plans to further develop its products, which tap AI and machine learning to…
QuillBot, a startup developing AI tools that intelligently rewrite text, today announced that it raised $4 million in financing. Fresh capital in hand, the cofounders hope to make QuillBot’s platform a one-stop editing shop, with modules that will summarize information…
Granulate, a startup developing a platform that optimizes computing infrastructure in real time, today announced that it raised $12 million, bringing its total raised to date to $15.6 million. The company’s products could reduce the time engineers spend fine-tuning the performance of enterprise systems, freeing them up to pursue more creative and impactful projects.
Granulate’s eponymous…
In a pair of papers published on the preprint server Arxiv.org this week, Google and University of California, Berkeley researchers describe new AI and machine learning techniques that enable robots to adapt to never-before-seen tasks and grasp occluded objects. The first…
Google today announced the release of English-to-Spanish and Finnish-, Hungarian-, and Persian-to-English gender-specific translations in Google Translate that leverage a new paradigm to address gender bias by rewriting or post-editing initial translations. The tech giant…
AI researchers from MIT, Intel, and Canadian AI initiative CIFAR have found high levels of stereotypical bias from some of the most popular pretrained models like Google’s BERT and XLNet, OpenAI’s GPT-2, and Facebook’s RoBERTa. The analysis was performed as part of the launch of StereoSet, a data set, challenge, leaderboard, and set of metrics for evaluating racism, sexism, and stereotypes…
