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Galaxy S10, S10e and S10 Plus: Price, release date and everything you need to know about Samsung's new phone

The Independent - Tech

Samsung has announced a range of new state-of-the-art smartphones, 10 years after its first ever flagship Galaxy S-series smartphone. The Galaxy S10 comes in three variants - the Galaxy S10e, Galaxy S10 and Galaxy S10 - and features a number of new features, including an ultrasonic in-screen fingerprint sensor and ground-breaking camera. The S10 includes a triple rear camera system, which includes an ulta-wide and telephoto lens to take pictures ranging from landscapes to "incredible" close-ups. "With this camera, what you see is what you get," said Suzanne De Silva, director of product marketing at Samsung. Samsung partnered with Instagram to allow Galaxy S10 users to upload images to the photo-sharing app directly from the camera.


5 women advancing AI industry research

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is a rapidly growing industry that's perpetually impressing people with what's possible. Those advancements wouldn't happen without the people working tirelessly to research innovations. Many of the people pushing artificial intelligence forward are male, and that's evidence of a known gender gap associated with the industry. Concentrated efforts are needed to tackle the problem, but it's a situation that could change. The five women here are among those leading the way in AI research and inspiring everyone by their dedication.


Technology Is Threatening Our Species' Survival โ€“ Member Feature Stories โ€“ Medium

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As an evolutionary anthropologist, I have spent my career working to understand the mechanisms of human relationships and the role they play in our daily lives. Our sociability sits at the very center of what it means to be human; I have witnessed that as I have studied the love between parents and children, the sense of belonging that bonds soccer fans, or the camaraderie of an army unit. But the emergence of social media, and more recently artificial intelligence, continues to have a profound impact on how our social relationships function, and the essential benefits we derive from them. After water, food, and shelter, the single most powerful influence on our health and happiness is the strength of our social connections. Our relationships with friends, family, and colleagues underpin our emotional lives through a complex set of neurological, psychological, genetic, and behavioral adaptations.


The Next Frontier: Healthcare Artificial Intelligence Consulting

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There is an undeniable truth that Artificial Intelligence, which we will refer to simply as AI, is the next frontier for the healthcare industry. Several sources have already pegged the market to be worth $36.1 billion by 2025. For those of you who like simple language; the way AI works is by having it developed through machine learning, natural language processing, and deep learning. This process is controlled by programmers, who in a lot of cases are independent contractors. Regulatory frameworks will soon be created to govern this new boom, with consulting and online training courses becoming the next cash cows milking this industry for profits.


Nike Adapt BB sneakers stop working after Android app breaks

The Independent - Tech

People's shoes are crashing after a Nike app stopped working. Nike's new Adapt BB shoes have been hailed as the future of sneakers, after they were released just days ago. They use futuristic motors to allow them to be precisely tightened up automatically, without any shoelaces or other input. All of that can be controlled by an app, which allows people to slip on the shoes and then let the motors do the work of tightening them up, in a way shoelaces would traditionally work. They use much the same technology that allowed Nike to recreate the self-lacing shoes from Back To The Future in a limited run.


Evolutionary Algorithms are the New Deep Learning

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Deep learning (DL) has transformed much of AI, and demonstrated how machine learning can make a difference in the real world. Its core technology is gradient descent, which has been used in neural networks since the 1980s. However, massive expansion of available training data and compute gave it a new instantiation that significantly increased its power. Evolutionary computation (EC) is on the verge of a similar breakthrough. Importantly, however, EC addresses a different but equally far-reaching problem.


Trump's Artificial Intelligence Strategy: Aspirations Without Teeth

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On Feb. 11, the White House released an executive order on "Maintaining American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence" (AI)--the latest attempt to develop a national strategy for AI. The order envisions the United States taking significant steps to increase research and development efforts while reforming its executive agencies to better compete with the Chinese government's investments in AI development through its Made in China 2025 plan. Although the order is full of promising language and constructive suggestions for executive agencies, it is unlikely to have much of a long-term effect without further support from Congress. The executive order has three basic prongs. First, it charges executive agencies to "prioritize AI" across several dimensions.


Who is winning the artificial intelligence race?

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In a recent talk at Stanford, Kai-Fu Lee says China has taken the lead. Lee is a venture capitalist and author of "AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley and the New World Order." Who's winning the worldwide competition to develop and exploit artificial intelligence? Not the U.S., says Kai-Fu Lee, a venture capitalist and author of AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley and the New World Order. Although researchers and tech companies in the U.S. hold the lion's share of AI patents and are responsible for key breakthroughs in the field, the game has changed, and China is taking the lead.


This New AI-Based Text Prediction Tool Can Write Better Than Many Humans

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Moving on with the future of artificial intelligence (AI), a text prediction tool can now create a whole article based on the command of one single sentence. Researchers believe that while it can simplify a lot of academic tasks, there are numerous potential threats attached to it as well. A non-profit artificial intelligence research organisation, OpenAI has recently introduced its model called GPT-2 which is developed to write content like humans. With a context of nearly eight million pages fed in it, the model can easily predict about the next word or even whole article after you insert your own sentence to start the topic. Once fed, it will start producing results which are surprisingly more accurate than the human imagination.


Google admits it didn't tell Nest users about built-in mic, but was 'never intended to be secret'

FOX News

Google could face a backlash over privacy after admitting that Nest users were not told about the existence of a microphone on their devices. Early this month, Nest Secure was updated to allow users to enable Google Assistant, the tech giant's virtual-assistant technology, to be used by the system's hub and keypad. However, Nest users apparently did not know a microphone even existed on their security device. According to Business Insider, the existence of a microphone was not disclosed in any of the device's product materials. "The on-device microphone was never intended to be a secret and should have been listed in the tech specs. That was an error on our part. The microphone has never been on and is only activated when users specifically enable the option," a Google spokesperson told Fox News via email.