If you’re looking for something to keep you busy while you’re stuck at home, a gaming laptop is an excellent choice. Not only are they great for gaming, but you can also use it for watching movies, listening to music, or even video production. Newegg has an excellent deal right now on an Asus TUF […]
Facebook partners with AWS on PyTorch 1.5 upgrades, like TorchServe for model serving
Facebook’s PyTorch has grown to become one of the most popular deep learning frameworks in the world, and today it’s getting new libraries and big upgrades, including stable C++ frontend API support and library upgrades like TorchServe, a model-serving library developed in collaboration with Amazon Web Services. The TorchServe library comes with support for both […]
Adverity raises $30 million to collect, prep, and analyze marketing data
Adverity, a data analytics startup targeting applications in media, marketing, and ecommerce, today announced that it raised $30 million in equity financing, bringing its total raised to $50 million. By accelerating R&D and growth within Adverity’s offices domestic and abroad, the fresh capital could help the company’s customers — among them Ikea, Red Bull, Unilever, […]
Xbox Series X Pre-Order Guide: Notification Sign-Ups, Release Date, And More
Since the reveal of Xbox Series X at last year’s Game Awards show, Microsoft has slowly trickled out information about its next-gen Xbox console. We’ve seen what the Xbox Series X and its controller look like and learned details about the console’s specs, as well as how the Xbox Series X will handle backward-compatibility. The […]
Unlearn.ai raises $12 million to accelerate clinical trials with ‘digital twins’
Unlearn.ai, a company that designs software tools for clinical research, today announced that it secured $12 million in equity financing. Unlearn’s “digital twin” approach to trials, in which digital models are used in place of real test subjects, could reduce the number of people required to run a trial without sacrificing standards of evidence. Unlearn’s […]
Switch Lite Back In Stock At GameStop, Best Buy (For Now)
While it’s certainly not as crucial as hand sanitizer, tissues, toilet paper, and other household goods, the Nintendo Switch console is also seeing a major national shortage right now, as major retailers respond to increased demand for online goods due to the coronavirus outbreak. The $300 console is seeing increased demand as more people find […]
Language may help AI navigate new environments
In a new study published this week on the preprint server Arxiv.org, scientists at the University of Toronto and the Vector Institute, an independent nonprofit dedicated to advancing AI, propose BabyAI++, a platform to study whether descriptive texts help AI to generalize across dynamic environments. Both it and several baseline models will soon be available […]
You Can Still Get Nintendo Switch Lite Bundles At GameStop
The Nintendo Switch is currently seeing a major worldwide shortage, the likes of which we haven’t seen since its release in 2017. People are clamoring to get their hands on the console, most likely due to being stuck inside because of the coronavirus pandemic as well as the timely release of Animal Crossing: New Horizons. […]
AI researchers propose ‘bias bounties’ to put ethics principles into practice
Researchers from Google Brain, Intel, OpenAI, and top research labs in the U.S. and Europe joined forces this week to release what the group calls a toolbox for turning AI ethics principles into practice. The kit for organizations creating AI models includes the idea of paying developers for finding bias in AI, akin to the […]
Matternet CEO: Drones would be helpful right now if we could deploy them at scale
You’d think that a company that delivers medical samples, by drone, would thrive in today’s COVID-19 environment. But even when you’re well equipped with relevant technology, like San Francisco-based Matternet, the world has become so topsy-turvy that you might face just as many troubles as any other business. Because Matternet supplies services to the health […]