AI & RoboticsNews

Vida Diagnostics raises $11 million to diagnose lung diseases with AI

Vida Diagnostics, a provider of AI-powered lung imaging analysis tools, today announced that it’s raised $11 million. CEO Susan A. Woods said the funds will be used to accelerate the commercialization and expansion of the company’s product portfolio, which she says could address market deficits in the early assessment, monitoring, and treatment of lung disease. “We are driven to continuously…
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GamingNews

Call of Duty League shifts to online-only events due to coronavirus

Activision Blizzard announced that the Call of Duty League will shift to an online-only competition, shedding the in-person events because of the coronavirus. The fear of COVID-19 is taking its toll on esports events held in live venues, where there are risks of the virus spreading from person to person. Yesterday, Activision Blizzard’s Overwatch League also announced that it would cancel all…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Amazon’s AI predicts context from search queries

Amazon is using AI and machine learning to predict context from customers’ queries. In a preprint paper accepted to the ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval scheduled to take place this month, Amazon researchers describe a system that…
MobileNews

YouTube rolls out ‘Explore’ tab on Android, iOS apps w/ trending, creator content

After being in beta for shy of two years, YouTube is finally rolling out its “Explore” tab on both Android and iOS, a new home for trending content and much more. In a post today, YouTube confirms that the Trending tab is being replaced with Explore and the change is rolling out now to all users. What’s different about Explore? Instead of just showing the most popular content on YouTube…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Google trained Pixel 4’s Soli AI on millions of gestures from volunteers

Google today penned an explainer on the Soli radar-based technology that ships inside its Pixel 4 smartphones. While many of the hardware details were previously known, the company for the first time peeled back the curtains on Soli’s AI models, which are trained to detect and recognize motion gestures with low latency. While it’s early days — the Pixel 4 and the Pixel 4 XL are the first…
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