Phiar, a Palo Alto-based startup that is using artificial intelligence and augmented reality to enhance vehicular navigation, is finally making its long-awaited AR driving app available for the first time -- albeit in a limited fashion. The company today announced the start of a private beta program for iPhone users, and plans to expand the program to Android devices later in 2020. Founded by experts in computer vision and machine learning, Phiar spent 2018 and 2019 raising funds and developing its mobile app, which is designed to serve as an augmented navigational head-up display (HUD) that sits on a car's dashboard. Instead of filling a phone's screen with a 2D or 3D map, the app can superimpose guidance lines, arrows, and icons atop live camera feeds of streets. Phiar notes that the app automatically picks visible AR overlays by looking at the road, lighting, weather, and objects present in the live video, drawing pathways using either lines or higher contrast patterns that will be more visible as you drive.

Shares of AMD, which will report earnings next week, rose 1% to a record high. Nvidia shares were also up 1%. Intel's stock was up 8.6% at $68.75, a level it has not seen since the peak of the dotcom boom in 2000, propelling the broader Nasdaq and the Philadelphia SE Semiconductor Index to record highs. Other major chipmakers such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSMC) and Texas Instruments have also given upbeat forecasts this month, cementing hopes of a rebound in the market that fell nearly 12% in 2019, according to research firm Gartner. However, Intel has struggled with delays in its 10nm chip technology, losing its lead to rival TSMC in the race to supply to the "new data economy", which includes 5G, autonomous vehicles and artificial intelligence.

The researchers say that their model achieves state-of-the-art performance with respect to dynamic deblurring and leads to better restoration results compared with several baselines. "By comprehensively fusing the deblurring features from different domains, [our model is] able to reconstruct the image with explicit structure and semantic details," wrote the paper's coauthors. "Such a design leads to a unified, human-aware, and attentive deblurring network.

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He uses this tick-tock ratcheting of tension and brief, bright flares of action to move the plot -- an extended, punctuated chase scene that starts early and continues through 400 pages. Verity and Eunice are the rabbit. The hounds are contract assassins, military contractors, tech-bros in over their heads. And Gibson, in his Gibsonian way, just keeps winding the wire around his explosive core, looping in gig-economy surveillance applications, outlaw makers, a barista, a time-traveling robot, a housewarming/launch party complete with helicopter assault.

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) recently acquired Xnor.ai, a Seattle-based start-up that develops low-power, edge-based artificial intelligence tools. Apple didn't disclose the terms of the deal, but GeekWire claimed that the deal was worth about $200 million. Apple reportedly paid a similar amount for Turi, another Seattle-based company that specializes in machine learning and AI, in 2016. Apple also recently acquired British AI start-up Spectral Edge for an undisclosed sum. But those acquisitions are just the tip of Apple's AI iceberg.

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Among companies building and deploying artificial intelligence, and the consumers making use of this technology, trust is of paramount importance. Companies want the comfort of knowing how their AI systems are making determinations, and that they are in compliance with any relevant regulations, and consumers want to know when the technology is being used and how (or whether) it will impact their lives. Source: Morning Consult study conducted on behalf of the IBM Policy Lab, January 2020. As outlined in our Principles for Trust and Transparency, IBM has long argued that AI systems need to be transparent and explainable. That's one reason why we supported the OECD AI Principles, and in particular the need to "commit to transparency and responsible disclosure" in the use of AI systems. Principles are admirable and can help communicate a company's commitments to citizens and consumers.

Researchers at the University of Michigan have been exploring the need to set ethics standards and policies when it comes to the use of artificial intelligence, and they now have their own place to do so. The university has created a new Center of Ethics, Society and Computing (ESC) that will focus on AI, data usage, augmented and virtual reality, privacy, open data and identity. According to the center's website, the name and abbreviation alludes to the "ESC" key on a computer keyboard, which was added to interrupt a program when it produced unwanted results. "In the same way, the Center for Ethics, Society and Computing (ESC -- pronounced'escape') is dedicated to intervening when digital media and computing technologies reproduce inequality, exclusion, corruption, deception, racism or sexism," the center's mission statement reads. The center will bring together scholars who are committed to "feminist, justice-focused, inclusive and interdisciplinary approaches to computing," the university said in a news release.

HOLLYWOOD,: Academy Award winning special effects creator Dennis Muren (holding star) poses for ... [ ] photos with director James Cameron (L) and Star Wars creator George Lucas (R), who kneels next to Star Wars characters R2D2 and C3PO during a ceremony honoring Muren with a star on the famous Hollywood Walk of Fame 03 June 1999 in Hollywood, CA. Muren has won eight Oscars in the visual effects category including work on "Terminator 2", "Jurassic Park" and all of the Star Wars films. The release of the film "Dolittle" has landed with a thud. During its first week, the box office receipts came to a disappointing $29.5 million. Keep in mind that the film–which stars Robert Downey Jr.–cost Universal Pictures $175 million to produce.