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The Nokia 8.3 goes official w/ 5G-enabled Snapdragon 765G, 6GB RAM, more

HMD Global has now officially unveiled its first 5G-enabled handset in the form of the Nokia 8.3 5G. Officially announced alongside a small collection of affordable and mid-range devices, the Nokia 8.3 5G will support a far wider range of 5G bands around the globe for even easier roaming — something we wouldn’t suggest right now. The latest flagship Nokia will come with some impressive…
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IBM’s StarNet brings explainable AI to image classification

In a paper published on the preprint server Arxiv.org, researchers at IBM propose StarNet, an end-to-end trainable image classifier that’s able to localize what it believes to be the key regions supporting its predictions. Besides addressing the task of visual classification, StarNet supports the task of weakly supervised few-shot object detection, such that only a small amount of noisy data is…
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Amazon researchers develop AI that improves knowledge graph performance

In a new study, researchers at Amazon describe a technique that factors in information about knowledge graphs to perform entity alignment, which entails determining which elements of different graphs refer to the same “entities” (which might be anything from products to song titles). The idea is to improve computational efficiency while at the same time improving performance, speeding up…
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HTC holds virtual media event, sends coronavirus balloons into crowd for selfies

HTC’s just-concluded Virtual Vive Ecosystem Conference represented a step forward for the virtual events industry, serving as the first fully VR replacement for a major industry event previously held in the physical world. But instead of escaping from the global coronavirus pandemic, attendees found themselves getting even closer to the disease than expected, thanks to a bizarre early segment in…
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