Earlier this week Apple quietly released its latest version of the Smart Battery Case for its newest iPhones. The Smart Battery Case for iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, and iPhone 11 Pro Max helps to extend your iPhone’s battery life just like previous versions.
But unlike previous versions of the Smart Battery Case, this year’s edition comes with a brand new physical camera shortcut feature that…
Data sets are fundamental building blocks of AI systems, and this paradigm isn’t likely to ever change. Without a corpus on which to draw, as human beings employ daily, models can’t learn the relationships that inform their predictions.
But why stop at a single corpus?
Here is the new GSMArena Android app update - Black Friday edition
November 22, 2019
The latest build of the official GSMArena app is here, prepared with plenty of love and attention. The release just happens to coincide with the shopping frenzy that is now essentially the week leading to Black Friday, and we thought we would get in on the fun. So, how do…
NYC creates a high-level position to oversee ethics in AI
November 22, 2019
New York City wants to avoid bias in AI and other algorithms, and it’s creating a role primarily to ensure that equal treatment. Mayor Bill de Blasio has issued an executive order creating a position for an Algorithms Management and Policy Officer. Whoever holds the position will work within the Mayor’s Office of Operations and serve as both an architect for algorithm guidelines and…
Samsung Galaxy A51 to come with a 5MP macro camera
November 22, 2019
While last year’s quad-camera Galaxy A-series devices featured a standard one, an ultrawide, a telephoto and a depth sensor, this time around Samsung is looking to change things a little. For instance, the rumored Galaxy A51 will replace the telephoto unit with a macro…
Twitch loses another top streamer, this time to Facebook
November 22, 2019
Yet another high-profile Twitch streamer is jumping ship, but this time it’s to an unusual destination. Jeremy “Disguised Toast” Wang (best known for streaming Apex Legends, Hearthstone and League of Legends) is leaving the service in favor of Facebook.
AI is data Pac-Man. Winning requires a flashy new storage strategy.
November 22, 2019
Presented by Intel
When it comes to data, AI is like Pac-Man. Hard disk drives, NAS, conventional data center and cloud-based storage schemes can’t sate AI’s voracious appetite for speed and capacity, especially for real time. Playing the game today requires a fundamental rethinking of storage as a foundation of machine learning, deep learning, image processing, and neural network…
Save up to $1,000 on Lenovo ThinkPad laptops ahead of Black Friday
November 22, 2019
With the exception of Amazon, most of the pre-Black Friday sales we’ve seen so far have been pretty tame. Not so with Lenovo’s early Black Friday sale. Not only can you get as much as 45 percent off one of the company’s laptops, which in some cases…
Facebook trains AI to generate worlds in a fantasy text adventure
November 22, 2019
Procedurally generating an interesting video game environment isn’t just challenging — it’s incredibly time-consuming. Tools like Promethean AI, which tap machine learning to generate scenes, promise to ease the design burden somewhat. But barriers remain.
That’s why…
The way we play games is about to change. Or, at least, that’s the claim from companies with cloud-gaming services. Using Project xCloud or Nvidia GeForce Now, you can stream console-quality releases to any screen, including your phone. But how is anyone supposed to hold both a controller and a phone at the same time? It’s not really gaming anywhere if the form factor discourages me from…
