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A New Item for Your Holiday List: AI-Generated Fine Art

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Playform AI launched the limited-time exhibition this week with work from four artists, who include established names in the fine art word, new media specialists and a pseudonymous Instagram creator. The pieces range in price from about $60 to $1,500 and include wall prints, jigsaw puzzles, framed video screens and masks. The shop also features an augmented reality tool that allows prospective buyers to project artworks into their home before purchase. The startup is one of a handful of companies to venture into the AI art exhibition space as new advances in machine learning research have spawned a small but growing community of creatives, artists and technologists attempting to harness the power of AI in art. The key piece of a technology involved is a form of neural network called a generative adversarial network (GAN), which brands have already experimented with using for everything from deepfaked commercials to product design.


Stay In and Get Cozy With These Black Friday Video Game Deals

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Well before Black Friday, there were tons of gaming deals swirling around the internet, like dust kicked up by the release of two new consoles: the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. Now that the newest iterations are out, previous-gen games are seeing discounts all over the place. It's good timing with the holiday season upon us, but Covid-19 is still raging around the country, and most of us can't see family. Video games provide a great way to connect with loved ones at a safe distance. We hope our favorite Black Friday video game and accessory deals will help in these trying times.


NVIDIA Shield TV returns to all-time low of $129 before Black Friday

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If you like the Android TV ecosystem, NVIDIA's Shield TV is a great streaming option if you also want something a bit more powerful than a standard Chromecast. It's an even more compelling pick now that it's down to $129 in an early Black Friday sale -- that's an all-time-low price that has come around before, but not very often. This streaming device earned a spot in our holiday gift guide this year for being one of the more powerful dongles you can get thanks to NVIDIA's Tegra X1 processor. The company claims this chip is 25 percent faster than the X1 that came before it, and in the Shield TV, it's put to good use by helping power an AI-powered HD to 4K upscaler. That means lower-res footage will more closely resemble 4K footage when streamed with the Shield TV.


Nine top Black Friday eLearning deals

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Growth is fundamental to our personal and professional lives. It challenges us to become better people and make the most of every day. The idea of developing new soft and hard skills, although overwhelming at first, is much more manageable and achievable with the right structure and guidance. Those looking to embrace growth as we close out 2020, and head into a new calendar year, will want to check out this roundup of eLearning bundles on sale for Black Friday. Everything in this roundup is an additional 70% off for a limited time, which means now is a great time to pick up more skills and hit the ground running in 2021.


Black Friday 2020: Kohl's has incredible early vacuum deals on iRobot, Shark and more

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Purchases you make through our links may earn us a commission. The Kohl's Black Friday week deals event is underway with impressive markdowns on some of the best vacuum cleaners and top-rated robot vacuums you can buy. Not only are the early Black Friday prices fantastic, but Kohl's is also offering 15% off certain items, as well as Kohl's Cash bonuses to help you stack the savings this holiday season. Get expert shopping advice delivered to your phone. Sign up for text message alerts from the deal-hunting nerds at Reviewed. Use coupon code THANKS to score an additional 15% off on select vacuums.


Sony: More PlayStation 5 consoles will reach retailers by the end of the year

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Consumers and video game fans waiting to scoop up a PlayStation 5 will likely get more opportunities by the end of this year. In a tweet published Wednesday through its official PlayStation account, Sony said it will make more of its popular video game console available at retailers by the end of 2020. "Demand for PS5 is unprecedented," said Sony in its statement. "So we wanted to confirm that more PS5 inventory will be coming to retailers before the end of the year." Sony claims the launch of the PS5, first available on Nov. 12, was the company's biggest console launch ever.


Amazon Black Friday 2020: The best deals on Ring doorbells, Roomba vacuums, Samsung TVs, and more

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The Sony WH-1000XM4 noise-cancelling headphones are on an incredible discount right now at Amazon. Purchases you make through our links may earn us a commission. Black Friday week is here, and though we're just a few weeks beyond Amazon's Prime Day 2020 savings event, the retailer has a ton of new deals to check out. Amazon Black Friday deals started on November 20th and new deals are dropping all the time. Current deals include streaming sticks (get the all-new Fire Stick, Fire Stick lite or Fire Stick 4K for up to 40% off), brand-name French cookware, self-cleaning Roombas, Ring doorbells, and the best deal: Sony's spectacular noise-cancelling headphones.


Your guide to artificial intelligence and machine learning at re:Invent 2020

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With less than a week to re:Invent 2020, we are feeling the excitement and thrill, and looking forward to seeing you all at the world's premier cloud learning event. As always, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) continue to be on the list of top topics with our customers and partners. We're making it bigger and better this year with the first ever machine learning keynote, over 50 technical breakout sessions, live racing with the AWS DeepRacer League, and more. You'll hear from AWS experts as well as many of our customers including NASCAR, Intuit, McDonalds, Mobileye, NFL, Siemens Energy, and many others, across industries such as sports, finance, retail, autonomous vehicles, manufacturing, and more. To help you plan your agenda for the extravaganza, here are a few highlights from the artificial intelligence and machine learning track at re:Invent 2020.


Announcing the launch of Amazon Comprehend Events

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Every day, financial organizations need to analyze news articles, SEC filings, and press releases, as well as track financial events such as bankruptcy announcements, changes in executive leadership at companies, and announcements of mergers and acquisitions. They want to accurately extract the key data points and associations among various people and organizations mentioned within an announcement to update their investment models in a timely manner. Traditional natural language processing services can extract entities such as people, organizations and locations from text, but financial analysts need more. They need to understand how these entities relate to each other in the text. Today, Amazon Comprehend is launching Comprehend Events, a new API for event extraction from natural language text documents.


The 5 best Amazon Black Friday deals you can get this Tuesday

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This Tuesday, shop and save on smart speakers, robot vacuums and more on Amazon. Purchases you make through our links may earn us a commission. Eager to get a jumpstart on Black Friday discounts? Right now at Amazon, you can start shopping the Super Bowl of savings early and take advantage of solid deals on innovative, top-rated items, including smart speakers, wet/dry vacuums and more. Whether you're shopping for a smart robot vacuum that allows you to schedule cleanings ahead of time or the best rice cookers money can buy, these items can help make your everyday life run a little smoother, and who doesn't love that?