AI & RoboticsNews

Brazil is emerging as a world-class AI innovation hub

January 13, 2020
Brazil’s government has big plans for AI, despite having come late to the party. In Oxford Insights’ AI Readiness Index 2019, Brazil was ranked 40 out of 192 countries, a sign that the South American powerhouse is moving up in the AI world. The report looks at how ready countries are to take advantage of the AI technologies PwC forecasts will add $15 trillion to the global economy by 2030. The…
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LG G9 case renders leak, confirming the design

January 9, 2020
Renders of a transparent case for the LG G9 have leaked, perfectly matching the OnLeaks renders. However, there may have been some confusion – this might actually be the LG V60 (the back panel of which we saw yesterday). Either way, chances are that the G9 and V60 will…
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Corvus raises $32 million to inject AI into insurance products

January 9, 2020
Cyber risk, which commonly refers to any risk of financial loss, disruption, or damage to the reputation of an organization resulting from the failure of its systems, is one of the top five concerns among IT teams, according to a Microsoft survey. That’s not surprising considering that the average cost of a cyber attack was $1.1 million in 2018, an increase of 52% from 2017. It’s with this in…
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MobileNews

DuckDuckGo trumps Bing in Google’s controversial Android ‘choice screen’ search engine auction

January 9, 2020
Google has announced the inaugural winners of its controversial Android “choice screen” search engine auction in Europe, with privacy-focused Google alternative DuckDuckGo emerging as one of the big winners. Microsoft’s Bing, by contrast, languished. DuckDuckGo will be one of three alternative search engines offered by Google during new Android phone setups in every European country, while…
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Vivo iQOO 3 5G passes certification on TENAA

January 9, 2020
Earlier this week we heard of an upcoming vivo device bearing the V1950A model number which is believed to be the iQOO 3 5G. The phone received its 3C certification, confirming the 44W fast charging and 5G support. Now, we get a few new clues through China’s TENAA. vivo…
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Ubisoft launches lab for blockchain and social entertainment startups

January 9, 2020
Ubisoft announced the fifth season of its Entrepreneurs Lab, an incubator program in Paris and Singapore. The call for projects related to blockchain and social entertainment is now open until March 1. Ubisoft is a big French video game company with about 16,000 employees, but it has been more open to experimenting with technology and startups than many big entertainment companies throughout its…
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