When it comes to the tech industry, you will already be well acquainted with the speed at which technology can change and improve. From the way our everyday devices function, to how they look, behave – and the accuracy with which they predict our needs – we are rapidly assimilating technology within our lives that, […]
Smite Adds Avatar: The Last Airbender Battle Pass Today
Smite’s mid-season update 7.7 adds the Avatar: the Last Airbender battle pass and makes changes to the game’s main mode, Conquest. Aang, Zuko, and Korra are all being added to the game as skins for existing gods Merlin, Susano, and Skadi, respectively. The Avatar: the Last Airbender battle pass includes two skins for Aang, Zuko, […]
Ghost Recon Breakpoint AI Squadmates Update Delayed To Mid-July
Ghost Recon: Breakpoint’s Title Update 2.0.5–which was targeting a June launch for PC, PlayStation 4, Stadia, and Xbox One–has been delayed, developer Ubisoft Paris confirmed. The studio is now folding that patch into the larger 2.1.0 update that’s supposed to arrive sometime in mid-July. According to a recent developer update, the 2.1.0 patch will come […]
AI tools could improve fake news detection by analyzing users’ interactions and comments
In a paper published on the preprint server Arxiv.org, researchers affiliated with Microsoft and Arizona State University propose an approach to detecting fake news that leverages a technique called weak social supervision. They say that by enabling the training of fake news-detecting AI even in scenarios where labeled examples aren’t available, weak social supervision opens […]
AI Weekly: Autonomous vehicle companies pivot to charitable deliveries during the pandemic
Early on, the pandemic — which passed a grim milestone in the U.S. this week of over 100,000 dead — motivated the shuttering of businesses deemed nonessential out of concern for workers’ well-being. One industry heavily affected was self-driving vehicles, whose operators and developers were forced to pause pilots under guidance from state and local […]
U.S. funds AI project to enable millisecond-level 5G spectrum sharing
Artificial intelligence promises to rapidly solve puzzles that would stump the most agile human brains, so the U.S. government is funding a project that will put AI’s potential to the test. Today, the Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) announced that it has received U.S. Department of Defense funding to test a city-scale AI system that will […]
Facebook’s AI convincingly inserts people into photos
In a paper published last week on the preprint server Arxiv.org, scientists affiliated with Facebook AI Research and Tel Aviv University propose a novel technique for inserting people into existing images in a photorealistic, high-resolution way. It taps AI that creates a semantic map of a person and estimates the pose of other people in […]
ProBeat: Microsoft’s AI supercomputer was the best of Build 2020
This week, Microsoft hosted a vastly different Build, its developers conference and biggest event of the year. Build 2020 had plenty of big news for businesses, developers, and business developers. There was unexpected news and expected news. Even Microsoft haters had plenty to discuss. Cloud and AI announcements abounded for good reason. But the highlight […]
AI Recreates Pac-Man From Scratch, Without Any Human Input
Today, one of gaming’s most recognizable icons turns 40. And to celebrate, Nvidia and Bandai Namco have partnered up to recreate Pac-Man, only this time without any actual human input. Using Nvidia’s GameGAN, the company has successfully trained an AI model to recreate and play Pac-Man without the use of a game engine. Instead, the […]
How AI and remote collaboration tools could help the construction industry get back to work
In the two-plus months of global lockdown, much of the digital debate has focused on the pandemic’s longterm impact on the global workforce. Remote working has suddenly become the norm for millions of people, and companies like Twitter have already confirmed that employees will be able to continue working remotely indefinitely. Whether this trend proliferates […]