July 2, 2020 Advocacy groups raise concerns over Google’s $2.1 billion Fitbit bid Twenty advocacy groups signed a statement urging regulators to be wary of Google’s $2.1 billion bid for fitness tracker company Fitbit.Read More via VentureBeat… Tags: (TECH) (VENTUREBEAT)
July 1, 2020 MIT takes down 80 Million Tiny Images data set due to racist and offensive content The 80 Million Tiny Images data set was taken offline following an audit that found images labelled with racist, sexist, or otherwise offensive words.Read… Tags: (TECH) (VENTUREBEAT)
July 1, 2020 Hunched over a computer all day? Improve your posture with this innovative corrector SPONSORED DEALS: Chances are you’ve been spending more time at home lately, and with that comes more time looking down at screens. Tired of… Tags: (TECH) (VENTUREBEAT)
July 1, 2020 Mozilla Common Voice updates will help train the ‘Hey Firefox’ wakeword for voice-based web browsing Mozilla updated Common Voice, its open source collection of transcribed voice data. It now contains over 7,000 hours of speech across 54 languages.Read More… Tags: (TECH) (VENTUREBEAT)
July 1, 2020 Researchers find some third-party Facebook apps are misusing email addresses A preprint study from the University of Iowa found some third-party Facebook apps share data like email addresses with other parties without disclosure.Read More… Tags: (TECH) (VENTUREBEAT)
July 1, 2020 Learn how to accelerate your business using automation and AI technology: Transform 2020 No one expected the jolt the Covid-19 pandemic would bring to business. If companies were already investing in automation and AI technologies before March… Tags: (TECH) (VENTUREBEAT)
July 1, 2020 Worms Rumble ditches turn-based combat for real-time action Team17 announced Worms Rumble today, the latest installment in the long-running franchise. A PC beta will start on July 15.Read More via VentureBeat Check… Tags: (TECH) (VENTUREBEAT)
July 1, 2020 Facebook advances VR rendering quality with neural 4×4 supersampling A research team has come up with a way to teach computers how to transform low-res 3D renders into high-resolution versions suitable for live… Tags: (TECH) (VENTUREBEAT)
July 1, 2020 Google brings its AI-powered SmartReply to YouTube Google announced SmartReply, its AI-powered technology that recommends replies to comments, is now available on YouTube for creators.Read More via VentureBeat Check out the… Tags: (TECH) (VENTUREBEAT)
July 1, 2020 Stanford AI researchers introduce LILAC, reinforcement learning for dynamic environments Stanford AI Lab (SAIL) researchers created an AI technique called LILAC to allow reinforcement learning algorithms to operate in dynamic environments.Read More via VentureBeat… Tags: (TECH) (VENTUREBEAT)
