ComputersNews

HP’s new Chromebooks support the universal stylus standard

September 27, 2019
HP’s latest Chromebooks, the x360 12b and 14b, are the company’s first to support the Universal Stylus Initiative (USI), the new standard that lets compatible styluses work seamlessly across a range of different devices. The Chromebooks have been released as part of a first wave of USI 1.0 devices, meaning they should be compatible with any of the USI styluses that have been released, in…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Autoblow AI is a sex toy that promises ‘surprise’

September 27, 2019
NSFW: This article may contain links to and descriptions or images of explicit sexual acts. The phrase “artificial intelligence” conjures all sorts of ideas about a synthetic consciousness that knows us better than we know ourselves. But it’s more often…
MobileNews

Snapdragon 855-powered Realme bags Bluetooth certification

September 27, 2019
Realme is one of the fastest-growing smartphone brands around and the company is known for its excellent price-performance ratio. There have been rumors that Realme is gearing up to offer a device with a flagship-grade chipset and a new certification from the Bluetooth…
ComputersNews

DTS launches Sound Unbound to offer better spatial sound on Windows 10 PCs

September 27, 2019
Sound can make a game. And the latest offering from DTS should help make Microsoft’s Spatial Sound tech stand out even more. The company announced Sound Unbound today. It’s an app that supports Microsoft Spatial Sound, which helps deliver rich 3D sound to headphones and speakers. It uses the DTS:X audio codec, which you’ll need to install. It’s especially tuned for gaming. The games with…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Google Assistant can now launch games, capture screenshots, and more on Xbox One

September 27, 2019
Add the Xbox One to the long list of things Google Assistant can control. This morning, Microsoft and Google jointly announced the Xbox Action, which enables console owners of any Assistant-enabled smart speaker, smart display, or mobile device (iOS or Android) to launch games, automatically queue up and load apps, and more with their voice. It launches in beta starting today in English…
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AI & RoboticsNews

AI completes users’ rough sketches

September 27, 2019
Artistic composition tools imbued with AI are fast becoming old hat. Scientists at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, a collaboration between MIT and IBM to jointly pursue AI techniques over the next decade, recently detailed a tool that lets users upload any photograph and edit the…
AI & RoboticsNews

Google AI’s ALBERT claims top spot in multiple NLP performance benchmarks

September 27, 2019
Researchers from Google AI (formerly Google Research) and Toyota Technological Institute of Chicago have created ALBERT, an AI model that achieves state-of-the-art results that exceed human performance. ALBERT now claims first place on major NLP performance leaderboards for benchmarks like GLUE and SQuAD 2.0, and high RACE performance score. On the Stanford Question Answering Dataset benchmark…
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