AI & RoboticsNews

Utopos Games raises $1 million to make AI-based robot battle game Raivo

Utopos Games has raised $1 million for its robot-battle game Raivo, which the company says is the first title to gamify machine learning. In Raivo, the player collects and trains a team of robots into fighters that will enter an online match against robots trained by other players around the world. These robots are intelligent, learning creatures that are based on the latest AI technology that…
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Google will use AI to optimize how often users see ads

Google says it’s investigating ways to preserve user’s privacy without impacting their display ads experiences, in part through AI and machine learning. In a blog post this morning, the Mountain View company announced it’ll soon introduce an ad frequency feature in…
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Umbo Computer Vision raises $8 million for AI-powered video security

Umbo Computer Vision, an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that offers autonomous video security systems to businesses, has raised $8 million in what it’s calling a “post-A” round of funding co-led by Translink Capital and Susquehanna International Group, with participation from Shin-Kong Capital and Shin-Kong Security, among other existing investors. Founded in 2014, Taiwan- and San…
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MobileNews

NYC law enforcement has been able to crack iPhones in-house since Jan 2018

Law enforcement agents in New York City have been able to crack iPhones in-house since January 2018 — some 18 months before the capability was revealed by the company supplying the technology. It was June 2019 that Israeli forensics firm Cellebrite announced that its “new” UFED Premium product would, for the first time, allow customers to unlock iPhones in their own offices, rather than…
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MobileNews

Instagram for iOS updated with support for Dark Mode in iOS 13

Nearly three weeks after the release of iOS 13 to the public, Instagram for iOS has been updated with Dark Mode support. The new design is a mix of dark gray and black, and matches the system-wide setting in iOS 13. What this means is that Instagram’s implementation of…
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You need a MacBook with a butterfly keyboard to use macOS Catalina’s Sidecar

Apple released macOS Catalina today, and one of the update’s marquee features is Sidecar, which lets you use your iPad as a second display for your Mac laptop or desktop. The feature is designed to be a handy way to give yourself some extra screen real estate, especially if you regularly carry around both an iPad and an Apple laptop. The Verge’s Dieter Bohn called it his favorite new…
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