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Apple teams up with 100cameras nonprofit to teach students photography and storytelling using iPhone

November 20, 2019
In a new press release today, Apple announced that it has partnered with the nonprofit organization 100cameras to give students in Chicago the new iPhone 11. Through this partnership, the students are taught how to express themselves through visual storytelling with the iPhone. The iPhones were distributed to students from DRW College Prep, as part of a course on using photography to tell the…
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Xiaomi’s Xiao AI assistant passes 49.9 million users

November 20, 2019
Today marked the kickoff of Xiaomi’s annual Mi Developer conference in Beijing, and the tech giant wasted no time in announcing updates across its AI portfolio. It took the wraps off the latest release of Mobile AI Compute Engine (MACE), its open source machine learning framework, and it demoed an improved version of its Xiao AI voice assistant (Xiao AI 3.0). Xiao AI 3.0 Xiao AI, which Xiaomi…
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Xiaomi is adding early earthquake warnings to MIUI phones in China

November 20, 2019
Xiaomi smartphone and set-top box owners in China will soon have access to potentially life-saving early earthquake warnings right on their devices. At its annual Mi Developer conference in Bejing, the Chinese electronics company said its MIUI 11-based smartphones and Mi TV set-top boxes now include an early earthquake warning feature. Xiaomi claims the system is able to deliver warnings…
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Sony AI unit launches to push R&D in gaming, cameras and food

November 20, 2019
Ever since Sony announced the return of Aibo in 2016, it’s increasingly focused on developing AI technology to push its products. Now it’s established Sony AI which will have offices in Japan, Europe and the US focused on bringing “world class fundamental research and development with Sony’s unique technical assets.” While that includes robotics like its…
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