AI & RoboticsNews

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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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Razer Junglecat turns my phone into a Nintendo Switch for cloud gaming

November 22, 2019
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…
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Early Galaxy S11 renders show Samsung joining the giant camera rectangle trend

November 22, 2019
We knew this was coming, but the first batch of early renders for the upcoming Galaxy S11 show that Samsung might be joining Apple and Google in the trend of sticking massive rectangular camera modules on the back of its phones. The renders come from noted hardware leaker OnLeaks, over at 91Mobiles. To be clear, these aren’t official Samsung images; they’re renders created by OnLeaks based on…
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