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Our favorite robot vacuum of all time is great for pet hair--and it just got a major price cut

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Purchases you make through our links may earn us a commission. When it comes to robot vacuums, there's no better machine on the market than the iRobot Roomba i7 . It costs a whopping $799.99--gulp. If shelling out $800 on a cleaning tool isn't in your budget, take heart: This stellar device is currently on sale for a massive discount. Get expert shopping advice delivered to your phone.


The 5 best Amazon deals you can get this Wednesday

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Purchases you make through our links may earn us a commission. Black Friday and Cyber Monday may have come and gone but us deal-hunting experts know that the incredible bargains aren't over yet--as long as you know where to look. In addition to the copious Cyber Week sales that are still running, Amazon has its usual bevy of online markdowns to shop from, and, as always, we're here to present you with the top five deals we've found on the site today. Get expert shopping advice delivered to your phone. Sign up for text message alerts from the deal-hunting nerds at Reviewed. From sizable discounts on our favorite iRobot Roomba vacuums to this 33,000 -rated Philips Sonicare electric toothbrush that's going for less than $35, there are plenty of fantastic items worth scooping up this Wednesday.


Introducing AWS Panorama โ€“ Improve your operations with computer vision at the edge

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Yesterday at AWS re:Invent 2020, we announced AWS Panorama, a new machine learning (ML) Appliance and SDK, which allows organizations to bring computer vision (CV) to their on-premises cameras to make automated predictions with high accuracy and low latency. In this post, you learn how customers across a range of industries are using AWS Panorama to improve their operations by automating monitoring and visual inspection tasks. For many organizations, deriving actionable insights from onsite camera video feeds to improve operations remains a challenge, whether it be increasing manufacturing quality, ensuring safety or operating compliance of their facilities, or analyzing customer traffic in retail locations. To derive these insights, customers must monitor live video of facilities or equipment, or review recorded footage after an incident has occurred, which is manual, error-prone, and difficult to scale. Customers have begun to take advantage of CV models running in the cloud to automate these visual inspection tasks, but there are circumstances when relying exclusively on the cloud isn't optimal due to latency requirements or intermittent connectivity.


AWS Announces Five Industrial Machine Learning Services

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Together, these five new machine learning services help industrial and manufacturing customers embed intelligence in their production processes in order to improve operational efficiency, quality control, security, and workplace safety. The services combine sophisticated machine learning, sensor analysis, and computer vision capabilities to address common technical challenges faced by industrial customers, and represent the most comprehensive suite of cloud-to-edge industrial machine learning services available. This is why more than a hundred thousand customers are using AWS for machine learning, and why customers of all sizes and across all industries are using AWS services to make machine learning core to their business strategy. To learn more about AWS's new industrial machine learning services, visit https://aws.amazon.com/industrial/.


AI and ERP - Post COVID-19 Scenario in Retail Management

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In the post covid world, AI and ERP will redesign Retail Management trends. It will change the way consumers shop and bring efficiency for businesses in various ways. The scenario of the retail industry is continuously evolving and changing due to the covid-19 outbreak. The future of retail is quite exuberant as it gives consumers the option to shop in some of the most exciting ways. Progress is already in the making due to technology and innovation through Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Data Analysis, etc.


Customizing your machine translation using Amazon Translate Active Custom Translation

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When translating the English phrase "How are you?" to Spanish, would you prefer to use "ยฟCรณmo estรกs?" or "ยฟCรณmo estรก usted?" instead? Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service that delivers fast, high-quality, and affordable language translation. Today, we're excited to introduce Active Custom Translation (ACT), a feature that gives you more control over your machine translation output. You can now influence what machine translation output you would like to get between "ยฟCรณmo estรกs?" or "ยฟCรณmo estรก usted?". To make ACT work, simply provide your translation examples in TMX, TSV, or CSV format to create parallel data (PD), and Amazon Translate uses your PD along with your batch translation job to customize the translation output at runtime.


Deep learning helps robots grasp and move objects with ease

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In the past year, lockdowns and other COVID-19 safety measures have made online shopping more popular than ever, but the skyrocketing demand is leaving many retailers struggling to fulfill orders while ensuring the safety of their warehouse employees. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have created new artificial intelligence software that gives robots the speed and skill to grasp and smoothly move objects, making it feasible for them to soon assist humans in warehouse environments. The technology is described in a paper published online today (Wednesday, Nov. 18) in the journal Science Robotics. Automating warehouse tasks can be challenging because many actions that come naturally to humans--like deciding where and how to pick up different types of objects and then coordinating the shoulder, arm and wrist movements needed to move each object from one location to another--are actually quite difficult for robots. Robotic motion also tends to be jerky, which can increase the risk of damaging both the products and the robots. "Warehouses are still operated primarily by humans, because it's still very hard for robots to reliably grasp many different objects," said Ken Goldberg, William S. Floyd Jr. Distinguished Chair in Engineering at UC Berkeley and senior author of the study.


Amazon SageMaker Pipelines โ€“ Purpose-built CI/CD service for machine learning โ€“ Amazon Web Services

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Amazon SageMaker Pipelines is the first purpose-built, easy-to-use continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) service for machine learning. With SageMaker Pipelines, you can create, automate, and manage end-to-end ML workflows at scale. Since it is purpose-built for machine learning, SageMaker Pipelines helps you automate different steps of the ML workflow, including data loading, data transformation, training and tuning, and deployment. With SageMaker Pipelines, you can build dozens of ML models a week, manage massive volumes of data, thousands of training experiments, and hundreds of different model versions. You can share and re-use workflows to recreate or optimize models, helping you scale ML throughout your organization.


Cyber Monday 2020: The 20 best deals on Apple, Samsung, Coach, Hulu and Roku you can still get

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Purchases you make through our links may earn us a commission. Cyber Monday is almost over, but the best deals of the day are mostly still available. We've spent weeks preparing for the best Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals. You can see our full list of the best Cyber Monday deals, but below you'll find the top 20. Some of these items are at the best prices we've ever seen and encompass things such as Hulu, Playstation Plus, Coach bags, iRobot Roomba vacuums, Apple Watches, Rokus and more.


The Best Cyber Monday Home, Kitchen, and Parenting Deals

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When we tested the Roomba i3, it had some navigational flubs. Still, it's the most affordable robot vacuum that iRobot offers with the all-important self-emptying bin, and it includes a few other features we love, like the easy-to-clean, proprietary rubber rollers. Roborock has slowly become one of my favorite robot vacuum manufacturers. Each from its S series offers great battery life and large bin sizes. Product reviewer Parker Hall likes this vacuum a lot too.