And one of the most recent issues concerns the phone calls that are being made with voice commands via Google Assistant, as the whole thing appears to be broken down for no clear reason. More specifically, while phone calls on Bluetooth and with manual input work just fine, not the same thing can be said […]
A trio of researchers at Johannes Kepler University has used artificial intelligence to improve thermal imaging camera searches of people lost in the woods. In their paper published in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence, David Schedl, Indrajit Kurmi and Oliver Bimber, describe how they applied a deep learning network to the problem of people lost […]
How might The Terminator have played out if Skynet had decided it probably wasn’t responsible enough to hold the keys to the entire US nuclear arsenal? As it turns out, scientists may just have saved us from such a future AI-led apocalypse, by creating neural networks that know when they’re untrustworthy. These deep learning neural […]
Almost none of the students at W. W. Samuell High School had access to district-issued laptops or internet hotspots in their homes just one year ago. In what would now be viewed as a prescient decision, Principal Jennifer Tecklenburg started handing out Chromebooks to students in December so that every student could have a device […]
Black Friday 2020 deals are everywhere you look, even in the most unexpected places. Streaming services — not typically the first thing that comes to mind on sale days — have lowered the prices of its plans this weekend, including Philo and its cable streaming platform. The under-the-radar platform is already the cheapest cable streaming […]
If none of the Black Friday phone deals that you have come across so far are good enough for you, here is a great one from Google, but it has a major string attached. 9to5Google has noticed that the Mountain View giant is really highlighting one phone in particular during this season of sales – […]
Wireless charging has stuck around, despite the fact that, compared to its wired counterpart, it’s slower, less efficient and there’s the chance that you might incorrectly place your phone (or other wireless-charging compatible devices) and not charge it altogether. Still, however, the technology persists. And Belkin has tried to make it a little less awkward. […]
Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Buds Live, its newest pair of wireless earbuds, back in August. We were big fans of the Buds Live and their unique design, but not everyone likes legumes. Now it looks like the company’s next pair of Galaxy Buds will be bringing a return to the traditional in-ear form factor — […]
If you own a PlayStation 5 and have an active PlayStation Plus subscription, then you can redeem and play 20 or so excellent PlayStation 4 games as part of the PS Plus Collection. It’s a great sweetener for next-gen early adopters, and you can actually enjoy all of the games on the company’s previous console […]
It is no secret that Microsoft is planning to release a Surface Pro 8. An engineering sample landed on eBay earlier this month, after which the buyer confirmed that the device had a Core i7-1165G7 processor and an identical decision to the Surface Pro 7. However, there has been no sighting of a successor to […]
Samsung has taken the lead in the foldable phone niche. It has brought the idea to life in two different form factors. Many expect Samsung to have more up its sleeve. There have been rumors about multi-fold and even stretchable displays that could be used for future smartphones. Now, it appears that Samsung wants to […]
The Iota Foundation is teaming up with one of Austria’s most prestigious universities to foster research in distributed ledger technologies. The Iota Foundation, the non-profit organization behind Iota, Iota Tangle and Miota, announced they will be joining Austria’s newest Christian Doppler Laboratory, or CDL, as an industrial partner. The first of its kind, the laboratory […]
