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Lees meerWe've got just a few Qs about automation, storage, AI Reader survey Like other parts of your business, the IT team is beginning to suffer as key people fall sick or need to self-isolate. At the same time, they have the added pressure of supporting …
Lees meerJapanese giant defends decision, says trendy office rental biz didn't meet its terms WeWork sued SoftBank on Tuesday after the Tokyo-based holding company nixed its plan to purchase $3bn in shares of the struggling office-leasing biz from existing s…
Lees meerAnd you can still open its improved version with a strong magnet The manufacturer that claimed its Bluetooth-connected fingerprint-reading smart lock was “unbreakable,” only to find it being opened in seconds by someone armed with nothing more than …
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Lees meerEFF raises alarm over increasing reliance on shoddy automation Analysis The Electronic Frontier Foundation on Thursday warned that the consequences of the novel coronavirus pandemic – staff cuts, budget cuts, and lack of access to on-site content r…
Lees meerOh, oh no... oh God Intel and Broadcom were the lone beacons of success in an otherwise dismal semiconductor market last year, according to industry analysts at Omdia (formerly IHS Markit).…
Lees meerLow demand, supply glut. Why bother? Samsung Display will discontinue production of LCD panels by the end of the year due to falling demand for the increasingly marginalised tech and a supply glut in the market.…
Lees meerIf you ignore the T&Cs to probe a site's algorithms, don't expect the Feds to swoop in using the dreaded CFAA Netizens probing websites' algorithms for bias and discrimination, against the sites' terms and conditions, can breathe a small sigh of rel…
Lees meerBloody poms are full of great ideas Australian prime minister Scott Morrison may have to eat his words on how to limit the spread of coronavirus after the country's westernmost state announced "extreme and draconian" measures all of its own.…
Lees meerYour quick summary of neural network news Roundup Hello Reg readers. Here's a quick roundup of bits and pieces from the worlds of machine learning and AI.…
Lees meerAmazon promised. Google trialed. UPS got itself a licence. But only one percent of retailers are interested because they're still mostly rubbish More than one billion people are in Coronavirus-inspired lockdown and even going out to shop for essenti…
Lees meerBig Brother refitted for Big Hover Authorities in the UK have begun using drones to direct the public to comply with public health measures announced on Monday to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus.…
Lees meerMajority of academic studies into hospital image processing aren't subjected to clinical testing Don’t fall for overblown claims that AI algorithms are just as good as, or even better, than human doctors at diagnosing diseases from medical images. T…
Lees meerLack of varied training data to blame, say researchers Speech recognition models developed by top tech firms struggle to understand black people more than white people, according to fresh research published this week.…
Lees meerStarsky Robotics shuts down, plus more news from world of neural networks Roundup Let's get cracking with some machine-learning news.…
Lees meerTop court says UPC was not properly approved but only on a technicality Germany’s constitutional court has ruled that the long-planned Unified Patent Court (UPC), which would create a single legislature for the whole of Europe to decide on patents, …
Lees meerYou may want to check what you're actually teaching your neural networks in future Boffins in Germany have devised a technique to subvert neural network frameworks so they misidentify images without any telltale signs of tampering.…
Lees meerFalse positive rates, we've heard of them The AI community is attempting to tackle the coronavirus pandemic using all sorts of algorithms in its toolbox. As such, it's coming up with ways to predict the virus’ protein structure, crunch through thous…
Lees meerFeds recommend 30-month stretch after reaching a deal on theft of IP that made its way to Uber Former Google exec Anthony Levandowski has agreed to plead guilty to pinching secrets about Google’s self-driving car tech and sharing them with Uber.…
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