In the business industry, companies are now utilizing the voice recognition provided by intelligent personal assistants such as Alexa, Cortana, and Siri to speed up their tasks. In the transport industry, artificial intelligence is powering the upcoming self-driving cars and helps to manage the flow of traffic. In the education sector, artificial intelligence is used to support personalized learning systems. In healthcare, new diagnostic tools and decision-support technologies are being powered by artificial intelligence....

Though WhatsApp recently added support for up to eight people in a video call, that number pales in comparison to the 50 people allowed by the newly minted Messenger Rooms. WABetaInfo spotted a link to Messenger Rooms in the latest version of the WhatsApp Web Client, after having found a similar feature in the beta version of the Android app — strong evidence Facebook is currently working on said integration....

First thing first, you might want to prepare some coffee if you’re in the East Coast or across the pond. The event is set to begin at 8PM PT/ 11PM ET, and Musk has a habit of running late. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 21, 2019 Although there is not a landing page yet, Tesla has previously streamed events on its website. The URL was livestream.tesla.com for the Model Y earlier this year, so I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s the same thing this time around....

Made possible by machine learning, our devices would become instinctual in the way they spoke to each other and responsive — with no human interaction. One of the most significant examples touted at the time was car-to-smart home solutions. In this concept, our car and home would join forces to make our lives easier by learning our routines and increasing our comfort, being able to anticipate our needs before we know what we want....

Without a strong magnetic field, a planet struggles to hang on to a breathable atmosphere – which is bad news for life as we know it. A new study, published in Science Advances, suggests that the Moon’s now extinct magnetic field may have helped protect our planet’s atmosphere as life was forming around 4 billion years ago. Today, Earth has a strong global magnetic field that protects the atmosphere and low-orbiting satellites from harsh solar radiation....

Let me guess: Boring, burned-out men who pack the same little sandwiches in tinfoil every day, and talk about the morning traffic during breaks. They sit in grey cubicles, behind two large monitors, fondling their ergonomic mouses until the clock strikes five. Perhaps you think of super nerds — you know, the ones with glasses with tape in the middle, and painfully shy personalities who play Dungeons & Dragons on the weekends....

Because talking is a fundamental part of being human, it is tempting to think these assistants should be designed to talk and behave like us. While this would give us a relatable way to interact with our devices, replicating genuinely realistic human conversations is incredibly difficult. What’s more, research suggests making a machine sound human may be unnecessary and even dishonest. Instead, we might need to rethink how and why we interact with these assistants and learn to embrace the benefits of them being a machine....

A friend of mine is fixing up his house. He gave me a tour to show how everything is going and what his plans are for the space. We ended up on the roof, where I noticed the window frames needed ‘some’ work… as in, they were completely beyond saving. I pointed it out, and he shrugged and explained he should’ve done those years ago but didn’t get around to it, so now he’ll be forced to replace them entirely — a much more difficult undertaking....

In statement released yesterday, Jennifer Robertson, outlined the settlement that’s been reached with the appointed trustee, Ernst & Young (EY). “I have now entered into a voluntarily settlement agreement where the vast majority of my assets and all of the Estate’s assets are being returned to QCX to benefit the Affected Users. These assets originally came from QCX at the direction of Gerry (Gerald Cotten, QuadrigaCX’s former CEO),” Robertson said in the statement....

Microsoft Word is a heritage program for a reason. For 95 percent of all types of writing projects, its streamlined functionality, ease of use, and complete availability make it an absolute no-brainer of a writing tool for almost everyone. But oh, that last 5 percent. The irony of Word is that if you’re a serious professional writer, a scribe of books, manuscripts, scholarly works, and more, then Word becomes…well, a little too basic for what you need....

Now, a US company called Wonder has created an entirely new business model: chefs-on-wheels. It’s a somewhat novel idea. Consumers order food through a mobile app. The food is par-cooked (in ghost or restaurant kitchens), but it comes to you in a van equipped with a kitchen and a chef that finishes your meal in the truck right outside your door — using equipment like sous vides and speciality ovens....

The images first surfaced on Neogaf, and later appeared on Twitter. They show the front and back of a black rectangle that looks very much like the renders Microsoft itself showed during the reveal at the Game Awards. — Doug – XBOX SERIES X (@Doug_DragoX) January 22, 2020 Ordinarily leaks aren’t terribly impressive, and I’d be the first to do the typical internet commenter thing and cry “Faaaaake!” but this one definitely looks the part....

After a long period of silence, Xiaomi India announced today it’s spinning off POCO into an independent sub-brand. Manu Jain, Xiaomi India managing director, said the company felt it was the right time to let POCO operate on its own: However, the company hasn’t provided any detail as to when it planning to release new products. Earlier this week, a trademark filing containing the name ‘POCO F2’ was leaked. But, we don’t know much about the product yet....

The phone has a whopping five-camera setup on the rear with Samsung’s 108-megapixel sensor leading the line. In September, Xiaomi released the Mi Mix Alpha with the same sensor. However, the phone will be available to select users in limited quantities. Let’s take a look at this phone’s specs with some impressive camera prowess on paper: Specifications Screen: 6.47-inch Super AMOLED full HD+ display Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 730G RAM: 6/8GB Rear camera: 108-megapixel primary sensor+ 20-megapixel wide-angle sensor + 12-megapixel telephoto sensor + 5-megapixel telephoto sensor + 2-megapixel macro sensor Front camera: 32-megapixel Internal storage: 128/256GB Battery: 5,260 mAh Software: MIUI 11 based on Android 10...

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As several other camera manufacturers have done over the past few months in the wake of coronavirus and everyone being stuck at home, Olympus today announced it had brought webcam functionality to several models. These include the E-M1X, E-M1, E-M1 Mark II, E-M1 Mark III and the E-M5 Mark II. The software is currently in beta form and requires no special hardware – just the USB cable to connect your camera to your PC....

Here’s the short bit of text directly from YouTube’s test feature support page: And that’s about it. While the document doesn’t include any images of what the feature might look like, it appears YouTube will add another section to its player page, in which you’ll see recommended products based on what its vision AI thinks is in a video. The key word in the above quote is ‘detected,’ as that’s what suggests Google isn’t just looking at the video title and tags to figure out what products are in the video....

Until recently, journalists scoffed at the idea of an AI capable of doing their work. AI could gather facts, write simple reports, and publish with a dizzying frequency human writers could never touch, but they weren’t as creative. They were, in fact, a complete failure at writing human-centric copy, the sort of prose that dances off the page, keeping readers engaged from beginning to end. But that could be changing....

Since lockdown measures around the world have forced gyms and health clubs to close, many more people are exercising outside, where it’s free. The side effect is that everyone has seemingly pivoted to fitness tracking app, Strava. Seriously, the amount of notifications telling me my Facebook friends have just joined Strava has been kind of surprising. Not because I don’t have any friends, but because I don’t really expect this kind of behavior from them....

Planning for how to deal with disasters — natural, financial or otherwise — is a part of running a small business. And while storm season does provide an impetus, a company should always have a backup plan in mind in order to mitigate potential data loss. That’s why I asked a panel of YEC entrepreneurs the following question: In the face of storm season, what can small businesses do to help protect their data — and teams — from potential disasters?...