Alphabet Inc's Google is betting this combination proves irresistible with the Tuesday launch of Google Clips, a pocket-sized digital camera that decides on its own whether an image is interesting enough to shoot. The $249 device, which is designed to clip onto furniture or other fixed objects, automatically captures subjects that wander into its viewfinder. But unlike some trail or security cameras that are triggered by motion or programmed on timers, Clips is more discerning. Google has trained its electronic brain to recognize smiles, human faces, dogs, cats and rapid sequences of movement. The $249 device, which is designed to clip onto furniture or other fixed objects, automatically captures subjects that wander into its viewfinder.

Mujoco is mostly a physics engine, and I'm willing to bet that whatever parts you're thinking of when you say it's "more" than a physics engine either exist in some form in Bullet and the rest, or aren't relevant for RL. The things you listed are engines that delegate to other projects for their physics simulation, and come with a ton of heavyweight baggage that you don't need to do RL.

Google's new camera, called Clips, is a small, intriguing device that feels experimental. It's a camera, but it has no screen to compose or view images. It comes with a case that has a clip, but it's not designed to be worn on your clothing. Most interestingly, it uses artificial intelligence to take photography out of your hands so it can capture moments on its own. Google intends this roughly 2-inch by 2-inch camera to be used by specific audiences--parents or pet-owners--who are interested in capturing a certain kind of scene: the candid moments when a child (or dog) does something cute that may happen too quickly for you to pull out your smartphone and open an app.

The goal of music highlight extraction is to get a short consecutive segment of a piece of music that provides an effective representation of the whole piece. In a previous work, we introduced an attention-based convolutional recurrent neural network that uses music emotion classification as a surrogate task for music highlight extraction, for Pop songs. The rationale behind that approach is that the highlight of a song is usually the most emotional part. This paper extends our previous work in the following two aspects. First, methodology-wise we experiment with a new architecture that does not need any recurrent layers, making the training process faster. Moreover, we compare a late-fusion variant and an early-fusion variant to study which one better exploits the attention mechanism. Second, we conduct and report an extensive set of experiments comparing the proposed attention-based methods against a heuristic energy-based method, a structural repetition-based method, and a few other simple feature-based methods for this task. Due to the lack of public-domain labeled data for highlight extraction, following our previous work we use the RWC POP 100-song data set to evaluate how the detected highlights overlap with any chorus sections of the songs. The experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our methods over competing methods. For reproducibility, we open source the code and pre-trained model at https://github.com/remyhuang/pop-music-highlighter/.

Automation through Artificial Intelligence (AI) has made the healthcare industry more efficient and sustainable. Not only it improves the recovery time with no postoperative complications in patients but also eases off the work of a surgeon.

The biggest night in Hollywood is around the corner, and with it comes the possibility for a fresh batch of records to be broken and history to be made. Below, a few of the biggest Oscar milestones that may come to fruition on Sunday night. Outside of the technical categories, sci-fi movies have always had a tough go at the Academy Awards. With rare exception, they're usually overlooked for Best Picture--but depending upon who you ask, Guillermo del Toro's Creature From the Black Lagoon–inspired love story between a woman and a fish-man is the current front-runner (or close to it). Though their respective films, 12 Years a Slave and Moonlight, were crowned Best Picture, Steve McQueen and Barry Jenkins didn't manage to take home the coveted directing award.

The very idea of the first camera from Google causes people to freak out. The tiny Clips camera, which arrived in stores Tuesday, decides on its own what to record. Whenever it's on, artificial intelligence inside is watching. "This doesn't even *seem* innocent," tweeted Elon Musk after Google announced Clips in October. When I first saw one, I couldn't shake the feeling Google had created the creepy surveillance contraption in Dave Eggers' Silicon Valley horror "The Circle."

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Sky has revealed a whole range of new updates to its Q boxes. The range of new features and tweaks will be arriving on viewers' TVs over the coming months. They include features like Spotify on the TV box, a doubling of the amount of the 4K content that will be available, improved voice functionality, and greater personalisation. The company will also change the design of the menus that are used to get around, including a new widescreen interface and a special mode for kids. Spotify is perhaps the most significant update, marking a major upgrade in the way that people can listen to music on their Sky box.

All of a sudden, Sky has become the prize in a bidding war between US media giants Fox and Comcast, but for now, it's business as usual on the ground. The pay-TV provider has today announced a number of new features coming to its Sky Q service, primarily focused on making the user experience more personalised. Machine learning will begin to play a more important role throughout -- surfacing different TV shows depending on the time of day, for example. The sports tab is also becoming better tailored, assessing your viewing habits and liaising with the Sky Sports app so it knows your favourite events and teams. These updates will feed into a "brand new widescreen user interface" that blends personal recommendations with a selection of on-demand TV curated by Sky.