Would you Adam and Eve it? Your words will end up teaching Microsoft AI to speak proper English The BBC has launched a beta version of a Windows-only voice assistant that can only play the broadcaster's content – though it can understand strong Brit…
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Lees meerNice R&D efforts. Are we paying attention in Blighty? An all-electric commercial aeroplane made its first test flight, heralding advances in propulsion and battery technology alike.…
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Lees meer'Keeping all of the best elements from the G1'... and none of the bad, please HP has given the moribund Windows Mixed Reality market a shot in the arm by opening pre-orders for its long-teased HP Reverb G2 headset.…
Lees meer‘Natural step’ to find new leader after current one burned billions for no appreciable return The controversial CEO of money-burning virtual reality startup Magic Leap has announced he’;s leaving the job.…
Lees meerStartup says it's covered by the First Ammendment, ta very much The American Civil Liberties Union has sued Clearview AI for scraping billions of photos from public social media profiles, without people's explicit consent, to train its facial-recogn…
Lees meerPeer-to-peer currency exchange without an institution in the middle but with 'controllable anonymity' for central bank China will test a digital version of its currency at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing.…
Lees meer'AI serving platform' runs in database but isn't tied to specific cloud service In February, Oracle slung out a data science platform that integrated real-time analytics with its databases. That's all well and good if developers are OK with the stac…
Lees meerPlus: A peek inside Nvidia's Ampere architecture, and more Roundup Here's your summary of recent artificial intelligence bits and bytes, and related hardware and software.…
Lees meerIn the wonderful world of the US military, anything is plausible Who, Me? Monday is upon us, and while the UK is basking in a bank holiday that seems much the same as any other day, your hardworking vultures have another story to tell via our regul…
Lees meerIt crashed the same day it went missing despite 3-day closedown and hunt The runaway experimental drone that closed Latvia's skies to international flights after it went missing has been found lodged in a tree.…
Lees meer25kV + lots of wiggly amps = big local magnetic field A commercial drone fell from the sky after a flight across a railway line threw its internal compass into confusion.…
Lees meerLots of previews and coming-soons, but is it too little, too late? Build Microsoft's scattergun approach to IoT continued at the company's virtual Build shindig with Azure IoT Central gaining new toys, updates for Digital Twins, and Azure RTOS reac…
Lees meerAbout that ageing software estate and those lucrative licences... Microsoft has acquired UK RPA specialist Softomotive for an undisclosed sum, snatching a bigger foothold in a market attracting interest from investors and other large software vendor…
Lees meeriGiant would have to show it has learned from Google's failures Comment The word on the street is that Apple is developing new augmented reality glass, with the work at an advanced stage. Prototypes, we're told, have been made, and Cupertino is aim…
Lees meerYou wanted robo-butlers, you got robo-object-recognizers Facebook has revamped Marketplace, a platform where users can buy and sell stuff, with a bunch of AI-powered features that, it claims, can automatically recognize and label objects in pictures…
Lees meerHow many defects has it found? Never mind that, check out the architecture flow chart Altran – in association with Microsoft – has pushed out an open source project to find code defects via AI whenever you commit code.…
Lees meerThat's a total of 6,700 employees let go this month – so far Uber has let another 3,000 people go after axing 3,700 earlier this month amid the coronavirus pandemic. That's about 30 per cent of its 22,000-strong workforce slashed in a month.…
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