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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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AI & RoboticsNews

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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GamingNews

Google Stadia’s data use is over 100MB per minute at 1080p

November 20, 2019
Google Stadia is every bit the data hog that everyone was expecting. The service warns that it can use between 4.5GB and 20GB of data per hour. Where you’ll fall within that range depends on the quality of the video feed you get from Stadia. But I didn’t want to just…
AI & RoboticsNews

Brookings: AI will heavily affect tech and white-collar jobs

November 20, 2019
AI is set to have a big impact on high-wage, white-collar, and tech jobs, according to a new Brookings Institution study released today. The report analyzes overlap between job descriptions and patent database text, using NLP to assign each job an exposure score. “High-tech digital services such as software publishing and computer system design — that before had low automation susceptibility…
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MobileNews

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…
ComputersNews

HP rejects Xerox buyout offer

November 18, 2019
HP has been receiving buyout offers as of late, but it’s not ready to lose its independence — at least, not yet. Thetech pioneerhasrejecteda Xerox proposal to buy the company for $22 per share, arguing that the current offer…
AI & RoboticsNews

Jensen Huang interview — Nvidia can shake off rivals that have complicated and untested AI solutions

November 18, 2019
Intel just announced its first graphics processing unit (GPU), the Ponte Vecchio, to compete with Nvidia for handling AI in supercomputers. But Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang isn’t worried. I spoke with Huang on a brief call after his company posted $3.01 billion in revenue for the quarter ended October 31. Both gaming graphics chips and hyperscale datacenter GPUs are going strong, enabling the company…
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