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Samsung Galaxy XCover FieldPro goes official w/ $1000 price tag, Android Oreo, more

For those that want a real rugged smartphone, you might want to take a look at the new Samsung Galaxy XCover FieldPro. The newly announced device is essentially a slightly more beefy version of the XCover Pro that was announced at the very start of 2019. That does mean a far higher price tag of around $1000, although this is a business-oriented rugged phone that has been designed for usage “in…
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AI & RoboticsNews

IBM’s AI classifies seizures with 98.4% accuracy using EEG data

In a paper published on the preprint server Arxiv.org this week, IBM researchers describe SeizureNet, a machine learning framework that learns the features of seizures to classify various types. They say that it achieves state-of-the-art classification accuracy on a popular data set, and that it helps to improve the classification accuracy of smaller networks for applications with low memory and…
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Apple’s Voysis acquisition will boost Siri’s IQ in a respected AI test

If you’ve ever used Apple’s Siri, you probably know the digital assistant has specific strengths and weaknesses, including annoyances that have stopped some people from using it at all. Instead of a top-to-bottom refresh of the service, Apple has spent nearly a decade making small improvements to various features, and another one’s on the way. The company has acquired an Irish voice AI…
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GamingNews

Saints Row: The Third gets remastered for PS4, Xbox One, and PC

Publisher Deep Silver announced today Saints Row: The Third is getting a remaster, which will release for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on May 22. The open-world game first came out back in 2011. This third entry in the franchise was something of a turning point for Saints…
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iPhone 11 Pro Diary: 28 Weeks Later, photographing an empty London

It’s not quite 28 Days Later out there, but I did get the chance to put the iPhone 11 Pro camera to an unusual test some 28 Weeks Later – almost to the day since the phone’s launch. The UK is under lockdown at present, with people allowed out only for four reasons: work which cannot be done from home; shopping for essentials; medical or emergency needs, for you or someone else; and exercise…
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