AI & RoboticsNews

Research shows natural language benchmarks don’t measure AI models’ general knowledge well

August 13, 2020
Open-domain question-answering models — models theoretically capable of responding to novel questions with novel answers — often simply memorize answers found in the data on which they’re trained, depending on the data set. That’s the assertion of a team of researchers affiliated with Facebook and the University College London, who in a preprint paper present evidence that 60%-70% of…
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MobileNews

Report: TikTok used loophole to collect MAC addresses on Android

August 13, 2020
At the start of this month, President Trump announced that the US would “close down” TikTok on September 15 unless it was acquired. Data privacy and security concerns have always shrouded the app, and a new report reveals one particular loophole that TikTok exploited on Android to collect MAC addresses.  The today detailed how TikTok for Android “collected MAC addresses for at least 15…
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MobileNews

OxygenOS 11 hands-on: No longer the ‘cleanest’ Android skin [Video]

August 13, 2020
OxygenOS 11 has landed on OnePlus 8 and 8 Pro devices as the Android 11 Beta 3, but it might prove to be the biggest overhaul the third-party skin has seen for some time. They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and if Samsung has paid attention, they could feel particularly aggrieved that OnePlus has taken so many visual cues from the One UI skin. There is no denying the…
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GamingNews

Xbox Series X confirmed for November launch in Japan

August 13, 2020
Unlike the Xbox One, the Xbox Series X will launch in Japan at the same time as other major markets, meaning it’ll see release this November. Microsoft confirmed the news in response to an inquiry from Japanese site Game Watch. The Xbox One came out in November 2013 in 13 countries, but Japan had to wait until September 2014 along with several other regions, despite its outsized importance to…
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