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Is the Internet speed slowing down due to home quarantine? Major Internet operators around the world have come up with AI and machine learning technologies to prevent network congestion. Over the past half month, under the pressure of the soaring number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 worldwide, many countries have successively adopted home quarantine measures. As a result, watching videos, remote meetings, […]

Remember the "Que Shen AI" Suphx released by Microsoft in August last year? Recently, the research team released an updated paper on arXiv, further introducing the technology behind Suphx. On August 29, 2019, Microsoft released a paper called Suphx (Super […]

Wuhan University has made the world’s first mask-covered face dataset available for free, including nearly 100,000 images of real people wearing masks and normal faces, and 500,000 simulated images of people wearing masks. During this special period of fighting the COVID-19, teachers and students at Wuhan University have not slowed down their research. In early March, Wuhan University […]

A smart insole jointly created by Google, Adidas and EA has recently been launched. The insole has a built-in Google Jacquard tag, which can use machine learning algorithms to track the various body movement data of FIFA Mobile game players when they play football. Football enthusiasts can use this to practice ball skills in a targeted manner.

As long as your computer has a GPU, it can be used to help fight the new coronavirus. Recently, NVIDIA called on PC game users to contribute their GPU computing power and join the Folding@home project to fight the new coronavirus. As long as your computer is turned on, […]

During the epidemic prevention and control period, "not touching the face" is an effective way to prevent contact transmission. But this seemingly simple action is not easy to achieve, and people often touch their faces subconsciously. In order to solve this problem, a technology startup company has developed a wristband that reminds people to "not touch their faces". A few days ago, a handsome Canadian guy always […]

Last Thursday, Trump signed a bill that will ban U.S. telecom operators from using the government's Universal Service Fund (USF) to purchase services and equipment from Huawei and ZTE. Huawei warned that this would seriously harm users in remote areas of the United States. Trump signed a bill on March 12 that will ban the country's […]

As of press time, there have been 1,004 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States, with 31 deaths. In order to prevent the spread of the virus, colleges and universities in the United States have announced the suspension of classes and switched to online learning, including Stanford University, Harvard University, and the University of California, Berkeley. The epidemic has prevented 20% of students around the world from attending classes normally. According to reports, the epidemic […]

Recently, a lawsuit has caused widespread discussion in the community. The lawsuit was filed by the startup Neural Magic, accusing Facebook of using the core algorithm they developed in the neural network software released to GitHub. The person who leaked the secrets was the person who jumped from the company to Facebook.

The annual TensorFlow Dev Summit was held recently. Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the summit was held entirely online for the first time. The live broadcast was held from 0:30 to 8:00 am on March 12, Beijing time. This annual event for machine learning developers […]

Since the outbreak, many technology companies have joined the fight against the epidemic and provided strong support for all aspects of epidemic prevention and control. The many measures they have implemented have provided convenience for many people's lives at this stage. The new coronavirus epidemic continues to spread, and there are currently confirmed cases in 109 countries around the world. Despite the epidemic situation, […]

During the COVID-19 outbreak, many technology companies have used the power of technology to contribute to epidemic prevention and control. Contactless elevator buttons have also become popular on the Internet and have become a new favorite in hospitals, office buildings and other places. Since the outbreak of the epidemic, avoiding cross infection has always been the top priority of prevention and control work. As a narrow and enclosed public space with a large flow of people, […]

The global spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the plans of many companies. Major technology industry conferences that should have been crowded have changed their schedules due to the pandemic. Geoffrey Hinton, the 2018 Turing Award winner, called today for all kinds of computer field conferences to be held remotely. It seems that "remote", "[…]

Someone said that if you have studied NLP (natural language processing), you will know how difficult Chinese NLP is. Although both belong to NLP, there are great differences in the analysis and processing of English and Chinese due to different language habits, and the difficulties and challenges are also different. And some of the current popular […]

In a burglary case in Melbourne, Australia, the police tracked down the suspect with the help of "Find My" on the iPad, but the suspect died in a car accident during the tracking process. Apple's "Fing My" recently made a contribution in a burglary case. On February 4, the victim of the burglary […]

The COVID-19 outbreak has spread rapidly around the world and has affected many countries. The technology industry has also been inevitably impacted, and many annual technology summits have been forced to cancel, postpone, or move online. On March 2, Google announced that it had decided to move the Google Cloud Next'20 conference to […]

Thousands of years have passed, and mummies have only been resurrected in novels and movies. However, recently, a British research team used 3D printing, digital reconstruction and other technologies to artificially restore the voice of mummies. Because they believed that the soul does not die after death, some noble people in ancient Egypt would be mummified after death to ensure resurrection in the afterlife. […]

Google's parent company Alphabet's X division has recently announced its Moonshot project Tidal. The project uses artificial intelligence technologies such as computer vision to monitor the seabed environment, observe and track fish in the water, and help fishermen conduct aquaculture operations in a more environmentally friendly and sustainable way. […]

In many works of art, there are some subtle secrets hidden under the real appearance. For example, in some of Picasso’s paintings, there are works covered by new paintings. However, with technologies such as X-ray detection and neural style transfer, the “hidden” works can be reproduced. How many secrets are hidden in Picasso’s portraits? Ordinary people or […]

Osamu Tezuka, a Japanese manga artist known as the God of Manga, has passed away for 30 years and has become a permanent memory for many people. Last year, Japanese semiconductor company Kioxia launched a project "TEZUKA2020" to use artificial intelligence technology to draw manga in the style of Tezuka Osamu, hoping to continue his work. If […]

Volodymyr Kvashuk, a former Microsoft engineer, was convicted of 18 felonies for stealing Microsoft’s digital currency (vouchers) and cashing them out. He faces up to 20 years in prison. Weimob was maliciously “deleted” by an employee, causing hundreds of merchants to shut down. The engineer alone caused the company’s market value to evaporate.

Recently, a serious car accident involving Tesla in 2018 ushered in the results of an investigation at a public hearing. This time, the specific cause of the car accident was explained, and the shortcomings of the automatic Tesla autopilot system and other factors that led to the accident were explained. Tesla's autopilot system has once again become the focus of attention in the United States. […]

Amazon's large unmanned supermarket Go Grocery opened in Seattle. Using artificial intelligence technologies such as deep learning and computer vision, the supermarket has created a self-service shopping experience without cashiers. However, apart from a larger area and more product types, it seems to be no different from previous unmanned convenience stores. February 2 […]

Warren Buffett, the stock god with a net worth of $82.5 billion, has been using a Samsung flip phone that has been on the market for ten years. Although he is a major shareholder of Apple, he always refuses to use an iPhone. But recently, he finally gave up his old phone and replaced it with an iPhone 11. I wonder if he is still used to it? In […]

Today, the top computer vision conference CVPR released the list of accepted papers, with a total of 1,470 papers on the list. Some experts have already posted their transcripts, let’s take a look. The top computer vision conference CVPR released the list! This afternoon, CVPR announced the IDs of accepted papers, with a total of 1,470 papers included. […]

After the outbreak, some people took risks to go against the flow, but some criminals were busy taking advantage of this "opportunity" to make money. Some merchants on Amazon recently launched some products claiming to be able to effectively kill the coronavirus. After discussion, Amazon is currently removing these products from the shelves. Since the outbreak, some criminals have also begun to take advantage of the new coronavirus to […]

In the recent Delhi Assembly election in India, a candidate used DeepFake technology to generate promotional videos in other languages to win votes for his team. Although this method achieved good publicity and won some votes, the final election results were unexpected. Recently, Deep […]

Affected by the epidemic, many industries have been in a difficult situation recently, including the consumer electronics industry. Nintendo is facing a shortage of Switch in the European and American markets, and Apple’s second fiscal quarter will also be lower than expected due to the epidemic. Affected by various epidemic prevention and control measures and delayed resumption of work by enterprises, the upstream supply chain of many electronic products has also been greatly affected.

Recently, Google’s cloud computing department announced layoffs, saying that in order to adjust its focus on the international market, a small-scale personnel adjustment will be made. Although the specific number of people has not yet been announced, informed sources revealed that about 50 people will be affected. Behind the first layoffs in 2020, what does it reflect about Google’s situation in the cloud computing market? […]

Spot, the Boston Dynamics robot dog, has recently been given a new job. It will join Aker, a Norwegian oil and gas production company, to be responsible for inspection work. It has also been given a work badge and work number for the first time. On February 11, at Aker, a Norwegian oil company, Spot was given a new job.