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MICROSOFT STOPS SALE OF FACIAL RECOGNITION TO US POLICE DEPARTMENTS, CALLS FOR A 'NATIONAL LAW'

Jun 12, 2020

Microsoft president Brad Smith today said the company will not sell facial recognition to police in the United States until there’s a national law in place grounded in human rights that will govern this technology.Amazon and Microsoft were two of the biggest companies known to still make facia...

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IBM WALKS AWAY FROM FACIAL RECOGNITION, PRESSURE ON MICROSOFT AND AMAZON TO FOLLOW SUIT

Jun 11, 2020

IBM’s choice to end commercial sales of facial recognition may increase pressure on Amazon and Microsoft.Google has stepped back from facial recognition, as has IBM, and we already see Microsoft workers mobilizing to demand change.Amazon and Microsoft remain the only two major tech companies a...

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GOOGLE BRAIN, INTEL, AND UC BERKELEY DEVELOP AI MODEL THAT PERFORMS ROBOTIC SURGERY RELATED TASKS

Jun 10, 2020

Researchers from Google Brain, Intel AI Lab, and UC Berkeley have created Motion2Vec.Motion2Vec is a representation learning algorithm trained using semi-supervised learning.The researchers say their work shows that video robotics used in surgery can be improved by feeding them expert demonstration ...

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FACEBOOK RESEARCHERS DEVELOP TRANSCODER AI THAT CONVERTS CODE FROM ONE PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE INTO ANOTHER

Jun 09, 2020

Facebook researchers say they’ve developed what they call a neural transcompiler, a system that converts code from one high-level programming language like C++, Java, and Python into another.Migrating an existing codebase to a modern or more efficient language like Java or C++ requires experti...

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ELON MUSK PRIORITIZES SPACEX'S STARSHIP ROCKET DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

Jun 08, 2020

SpaceX is about a week past launching astronauts for the first time but CEO Elon Musk wants employees to focus on developing the company’s next-generation rocket.The company’s Starship rocket aims to be fully reusable and launch as many as 100 people at a time on missions to the moon and...

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TESLA’S SECOND LARGEST SHAREHOLDER INVESTS $35 MILLION IN AIR TAXI STARTUP LILIUM

Jun 08, 2020

German air taxi startup Lilium said on Monday it has raised an additional $35 million to fuel its goal of launching an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicle by 2025. That’s in addition to $240 million raised by the company in early March, when much of the globe began to feel th...

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AMAZON, SLACK JOIN FORCES TO TAKE ON MICROSOFT TEAMS

Jun 05, 2020

Slack is switching to Amazon Chime for voice and video calling.Slack is partnering with Amazon in a multi-year agreement that means all Amazon employees will start to use Slack.Amazon’s roll out of Slack to all of its employees is a big part of the deal, thanks to an enterprise-wide agreement....

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DEEPMIND RELEASES 'ACME' FRAMEWORK FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF REINFORCEMENT LEARNING ALGORITHMS

Jun 04, 2020

Reinforcement learning involves agents that interact with an environment to generate their own training data, and it’s led to breakthroughs in fields from video games and robotics to self-driving robo-taxis.Acme is a development suite for training reinforcement learning agents that attempts to...

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FACEBOOK EMPLOYEES STAGE VIRTUAL WALKOUT AFTER MARK ZUCKERBERG DEFENDS HANDS-OFF TRUMP POLICY

Jun 03, 2020

Facebook has followed a different path from Twitter, which fact-checked two Trump tweets about voting and restricted the protest comments for “glorifying violence.Zuckerberg argued that the policies that allowed Trump’s post about shooting also protected content that was upsetting but va...

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SEVERAL MICROSOFT WINDOWS 10 USERS BLOCKED FROM UPDATING THE MAY 2020 UPDATE

Jun 02, 2020

Microsoft is preventing a large number of devices from updating to the Windows 10 May 2020 Update.The latest update is also being blocked on systems with apps or games that use the GameInput Redistributable.Windows Update isn’t the only way to get the Windows 10 May 2020 Update, though. You ca...

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AMAZON TAKES ANOTHER ALEXA DEVICE OFF THE SHELF - DISCONTINUES ECHO LOOK

Jun 01, 2020

Amazon this week discontinued the Echo Look after pulling the Alexa-powered camera from store shelves in December 2019.Style by Alexa, which suggests, compares, and rates apparel using a combination of AI and human curation.As Amazon explains, the Echo Look was always intended to help train the AI a...

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ELON MUSK TAKES COMEDIAN JAY LENO FOR A RIDE IN THE 2021 TESLA CYBERTRUCK

May 29, 2020

Tesla’s legion of superfans have been buzzing about the company’s first all-electric pickup truck.The Cybertruck, ever since Elon Musk unveiled the truck’s unique design at a highly-anticipated event in November.Cybertruck not slated to go into production until late-2021 — at...

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VERIZON TO OFFER ENHANCED CUSTOMER SERVICE AFTER INTEGRATING GOOGLE CLOUD CONTACT CENTER AI

Jul 13, 2020

Verizon is piloting Google Cloud Contact Center artificial intelligence (AI) to deliver more intuitive customer support. Verizon will offer this through natural-language recognition, faster processing and real-time customer service agent assistance. The technology will allow shorter call times, quic...

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CISCO UNVEILS VIRTUAL BACKGROUNDS ON ITS VIDEOCONFERENCING SOFTWARE

Jul 11, 2020

As it tries to catch up with the popular features offered by some of its younger competitors, Cisco’s Webex has unveiled virtual backgrounds for its videoconferences. Users can either apply a “blur” effect to mask their background or replace with one of Webex’s preset backgro...

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IBM INTRODUCES NEW STORE TECHNOLOGIES, ACCELERATES AI AND ANALYTICS

Jul 09, 2020

IBM Thursday introduced new storage hardware and software aimed at placing its storage at the center of large-scale data requirements for artificial intelligence and analytics workloads.The new offerings are aimed at helping to build the kind of information architecture needed to get the most out of...

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NVIDIA’S AMPERE GPUS NOW AVAILABLE FOR GOOGLE CLOUD USERS TO POWER THEIR AI WORKLOADS

Jul 08, 2020

Google Cloud users can now harness the power of NVIDIA’s Ampere GPUs for their AI workloads. The specific GPU added to Google Cloud is the NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core which was announced just last month. NVIDIA says the A100 “has come to the cloud faster than any NVIDIA GPU in history.&rdquo...

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ADOBE BUILDS AN AI RECOMMENDATION TOOL THAT HELPS CONTENT CREATORS FIND HEADLINES AND IMAGES

Jul 07, 2020

Team members at Adobe have built a new way to use artificial intelligence to automatically personalize a blog for different visitors. This tool was built as part of the Adobe Sneaks program, where employees can create demos to show off new ideas, which are then showcased (virtually, this year) at th...

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OMRON LAUNCHES INDUSTRY’S FIRST DEFECT DETECTION AI TECHNOLOGY THAT CAPTURES DEFECTS WITH HUMAN-LIKE SENSITIVITY

Jul 06, 2020

The company says the artificial intelligence-based technology “captures defects with human-like sensitivity”. It claims the system reproduces human sensibility and the techniques of skilled inspectors, reliably detects defects that were once difficult to capture, automating human vision-...

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REDDIT TO FIX A CODE THAT COPIED CONTENTS FROM IOS USERS’ CLIPBOARDS

Jul 04, 2020

Reddit says it’s releasing a fix for a piece of code that copied contents from users’ clipboards. Users in a beta version of iOS 14, which sends an alert when an app tries to copy clipboard information, reported receiving the alerts with each keystroke in Reddit’s iOS app.“We...

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BETA TESTING ON FOR A NEW LOOK MICROSOFT WINDOWS 10 START MENU

Jul 03, 2020

You may get a new-look Start Menu in Windows 10 as the company has recently teased a new theme which indicates that the new Start Menu design will be transparent. The company has made significant visual changes to Start Menu in the recent Insider Preview Build of the Windows 10 operating system. The...

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FRONTIER SOFTWARE LEVERAGES PLURALSIGHT TO CLOSE SKILLS GAPS AND SUPPORT ITS TECHNOLOGY INNOVATIONS

Jun 30, 2020

Pluralsight, Inc. (NASDAQ: PS), the enterprise technology skills platform, today announced that Frontier Software is partnering with Pluralsight to upskill its workforce and modernize its technologies while executing on its mainstay software solutions.Based in Australia, Frontier Software provides i...

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GOOGLE’S G SUITE FINALIZES CONNECTED SHEETS AND INTRODUCES AI-DRIVEN DATA CLEANUP TOOLS

Jun 30, 2020

Last April during its Cloud Next conference, Google unveiled Connected Sheets, a type of Google Sheets spreadsheet that works with the full data set from BigQuery, up to 10 billion rows. After just over a year in preview and beta, Connected Sheets is generally available as of today. And in the comin...

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MICROSOFT LAUNCHED THE FIRST PUBLIC PREVIEW OF THE DEFENDER APP ON ANDROID

Jun 26, 2020

Microsoft announced that the company is rolling out a preview version of the Microsoft Defender for Android. Microsoft Defender is the company’s antivirus software, and earlier this year, Microsoft announced that it is developing an Android and iOS version of the Windows Defender app. However,...

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APPLE’S SOFTWARE UPDATES GIVE A GLIMPSE OF SOFTWARE IN A COVID-19 ERA

Jun 24, 2020

Apple is responding to the COVID-19 crisis with a range of new features across its software platforms. Some are intended to directly combat the threat of the novel coronavirus, as with Apple Watch’s new handwashing feature. Other updates can be seen in a new light in the COVID-19 era. For exam...

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OPTIMIZING WORKLOAD PLACEMENT IN HYBRID CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS

January 01-01, 1900

In order to drive growth and deliver on the promise of digital transformation, businesses today must be agile. And they expect their IT teams to be able to embrace and successfully execute change. In this webinar event, William Fellows, co-founder and lead researcher at 451 Research, will discuss re...

WHAT DOES MODERN ENDPOINT SECURITY LOOK LIKE?

January 01-01, 1900

A lot has changed since the early days of the antivirus industry. Not only have attacks increased in sophistication, speed, and complexity, but the environment around endpoints have changed significantly as well. Cloud adoption, mobility, and many other technological and business trends have signifi...

2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & ROBOTICS

July 28-29, 2020

Gavin Conferences has focused on meeting the needs of the scientific community, through strong tie-up with business and industry, while simultaneously accomplishing international benchmarks accreditation standards by its international conferences. Gavin Conferences is a unique organization which org...

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, LAW AND POLICY (ICAILP-20)

August 08-09, 2020

The International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Law and Policy (ICAILP-20) is an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practices in education. The Environmental Engineering promotes collaborative excellence between academicians and professionals fr...