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Viz.ai raises $50 million for AI that detects early signs of stroke

Viz.ai, a healthcare startup that’s using artificial intelligence (AI) to help medical professionals spot the early signs of stroke, has raised $50 million in a series B round of funding led by Greenoaks, with participation from Alphabet’s VC arm GV and Kleiner Perkins. In the U.S. alone, someone has a stroke every 40 seconds, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and…
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Chrome for iOS updated with dark mode and card-based UI

Following the Mac desktop release today, Chrome 78 for iOS is now available. Google notably adds support for the iOS 13 dark mode and redesigns some parts of the browser with a card-based UI. iOS, the Chrome browser respects the system-wide Dark Mode setting with no ability…
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When will Apple release iOS 13.2 to the public?

Following the releases of iOS 13 and iOS 13.1, Apple is currently beta testing iOS 13.2. The update is currently available in developer beta and public beta, but what about a general release? iOS 13.2 includes several notable features. First and foremost, there are over 60 new emoji and emoji variations in iOS 13.2. Apple first previewed these emoji over the summer, and they’ll make their way to…
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Twitter’s ‘Lights Out’ dark mode rolling out on Android, here’s how to manually enable

Since the unveiling of Android 10, dark mode has been one of the most hotly requested features for almost every app. As of today, Twitter is finally rolling out their AMOLED-black “Lights Out” dark mode on Android, but you might need a trick to enable it. On most platforms, Twitter has long offered a dark mode which replaced the blinding white background with a more subdued blue hue. Twitter…
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Google’s Coral AI edge hardware launches out of beta

Last March, Google took the wraps off of Coral, a collection of hardware development kits and accessories intended to bolster the development of machine learning models at the edge. It launched in select regions in beta, but the tech giant today announced that it’s…
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Google proposes new metrics for evaluating AI-generated audio and video quality

What’s the best way to measure the quality of media generated from whole cloth by AI models? It’s not easy. One of the most popular metrics for images is the Fréchet Inception Distance (FID), which takes photos from both the target distribution and the model being evaluated and uses an AI object recognition system to capture important features and suss out similarities. But although several…
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