Over the past 18 months, some Android Auto users have reported that Android Auto is getting its languages confused and reading notifications in a garbled mess of words that make no sense….
Month: January 2021
This app is helping reunite dogs with their owners using AI
It’s hard to imagine the stress that pet owners go through when their furry friends go missing. A US government survey suggests that 7% of lost dogs are never recovered. That’s why…
Jack Dorsey: “I do not celebrate” Trump’s Twitter ban
Credit: Wikimedia Commons Just a few days ago, Twitter banned outgoing President Donald Trump, taking away his favorite distraction. While many welcomed the move as a preventative step for future violence following…
HTC is apparently still making phones, announces the Desire 21 Pro 5G
After Google bought a major portion of HTC‘s phone-making talent back in 2017, the company has been largely quiet in the mobile department, focusing on its VR aspirations instead. But as it…
How ‘last-mile’ services and shared mobility can streamlining the delivery business
COVID-19-Lockdown-Stay home-Physical distancing-Online shopping-Demand for delivery. The above set of words sum up most of 2020. With the physical world of retail becoming less accessible, the convenience of online shopping has made…
Scientists figured out how to stop time using quantum algorithms
Everyone’s always talking about traveling through time, but if you ask me the ultimate temporal vacation would be just to pause the clock for a bit. Who among us couldn’t use a…
Surveillance group exposes disturbing Huawei patent for AI-powered Uighur detection
A Huawei patent that mentions AI-powered identification of Uighur people and other ethnic groups has been discovered. The patent was exposed by video surveillance research group IPVM, the same organization that had previously spotted…
Google’s new trillion-parameter AI language model is almost 6 times bigger than GPT-3
A trio of researchers from the Google Brain team recently unveiled the next big thing in AI language models: a massive one trillion-parameter transformer system. The next biggest model out there, as…
Data science needs you. No really. This 12-course training package can help get you there
Credit: Lukas Blazek/Unsplash TLDR: With training in Python, Hadoop, Apache, MongoDB, Excel, and even machine learning, the 2021 All-in-One Data Scientist Mega Bundle can turn you into a true data analyst. Leave…
We ranked the best (and worst) EV pedestrian warning noises
Electric vehicles are fast and stealthy. With no combustion engine or exhaust noise, they have the ability to sneak up on pedestrians without much of a warning. This is bad enough for…