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Pros and cons: Our quick verdict on the Huawei Mate 9

Engadget

The most interesting thing about Huawei's latest flagship, the Mate 9, is actually invisible to the naked eye. Under the hood, the phone uses machine learning to anticipate which apps you're going to use when, allowing for supposedly smoother performance. What the phone would have been like without this AI, we don't know, but we can say that the performance feels brisk throughout. If fluid day-to-day use seems like table stakes, you might also be impressed with the long battery life, bright display and the fact that it actually has a headphone jack. Unfortunately, what's otherwise a great phone stumbles with low-light photography, as well as some heavy-handed software tweaks that will turn off Android purists.


Honda, SoftBank want to make cars your new best friends

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Honda, SoftBank want to make cars your new best friends TOKYO -- Honda Motor and SoftBank Group announced a research collaboration Thursday on the use of artificial intelligence in cars, with a goal of creating vehicles that are more than just a machine for transporting people from point A to point B. The two Japanese companies aim to give cars the ability to read the moods and learn the preferences of drivers, not only through cameras and sensors but also by conversing with them. Honda and SoftBank envision the car as less of a tool and more like a member of the family. SoftBank Chairman Masayoshi Son invited Honda R&D President and CEO Yoshiyuki Matsumoto on stage Thursday at an event for corporate customers in a hotel here.


Sr. Staff Engineer of AI Robotics @ Huawei Technologies USA Inc.

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Futurewei Technologies Inc. (DBA Huawei R&D) is a leading global information and communications technology solutions provider. Through our dedication to customer-centric innovation and strong partnerships, we have established end-to-end advantages in telecom networks, devices and cloud computing. We are committed to creating maximum value for telecom operators, enterprises and consumers by providing competitive solutions and services. Our products and solutions have been deployed in over 170 countries, serving more than one third of the world's population. Futurewei has over 150,000 employees, approximately 70,000 of which are engaged in Research & development.


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A bag-of-paths framework for network data analysis

arXiv.org Machine Learning

General introduction Network and link analysis is a highly studied field, subject of much recent work in various areas of science: applied mathematics, computer science, social science, physics, chemistry, pattern recognition, applied statistics, data mining & machine learning, to name a few [4, 20, 30, 56, 61, 73, 96, 101]. Within this context, one key issue is the proper quantification of the structural relatedness between nodes of a network by taking both direct and indirect connections into account. This problem is faced in all disciplines involving networks in various types of problems such as link prediction, community detection, node classification, and network visualization to name a few popular ones. Preprint submitted to Elsevier January 2, 2018 The main contribution of this paper is in presenting in detail the bag-ofpaths (BoP) framework and defining relatedness as well as distance measures between nodes from this framework. The BoP builds on and extends previous work dedicated to the exploratory analysis of network data [54, 53, 67, 104]. The introduced distances are constructed to capture the global structure of the graph by using paths on the graph as a building block. In addition to relatedness/distance measures, various other quantities of interest can be derived within the probabilistic BoP framework in a principled way, such as betweenness measures quantifying to which extent a node is in between two sets of nodes [60], extensions of the modularity criterion for, e.g., community detection [26], measures capturing the criticality of the nodes or robustness of the network, graph cuts based on BoP probabilities, and so on.


AppleCould Sink $1 Billion Into Softbank's Mega Tech Fund

Forbes - Tech

Apple CEO Tim Cook responds to a question during a news conference at IBM Watson headquarters, in New York in April 2015. Days after Softbank billionaire Masayoshi Son met with Donald Trump to discuss a mega, $100 million investment fund that would funnel half itself into American companies, Apple may be getting in on the action. Apple has reportedly discussed putting some of its own money in what looks set to be history's biggest, technology-investment fund. Apple has talked to Softbank about investing up to $1 billion in the fund, according to reports in Reuters and the Wall Street Journal, which cites people familiar with the matter, and who cautioned that any investment from Apple had yet to be finalized. Such a move would bring Apple's cash, estimated to be worth some $200 billion and located mostly outside of the United States, into one of the world's biggest investment funds.


Skype Extends Live Translation to Calls on Landlines and Mobile Phones

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Microsoft is expanding its real-time Skype translation tool to cover calls made to mobile phones and landlines. The software giant has announced that Windows Insiders -- those who have signed up to access early builds of the Windows operating system -- can now access the new features through the Skype Preview app on Windows 10. Skype Translator was first introduced in English and Spanish back in December2014, and it has since expanded into a number of additional languages, including Mandarin, Italian, Russian, and Arabic. It uses artificial intelligence (AI) techniques such as deep-learning to train artificial neural networks, and it should continuously improve as it listens to more conversations. Essentially, it can convert spoken chats in almost real time across nine languages in total, and more than 50 languages in text-based instant messaging.


SoftBank CEO Promises Trump 50,000 New Tech Jobs Sci-Tech Today

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The holding company that owns the Kansas-based Sprint Corp. has pledged to invest up to $50 billion in U.S. startup companies and acquisitions. This vow was made by Masayoshi Son, chief executive of SoftBank Group, which owns Sprint. Son made the promise following a 45-minute meeting with President-elect Donald Trump yesterday. Son (pictured above) said SoftBank will make the investment from a $100 billion technology fund that the company previously said it would raise in part using its own capital and commitments from the Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund. First announced in October, the SoftBank Vision Fund will create as many as 50,000 tech jobs in the U.S, according to Son.


The Huawei Mate 9 stands out with long battery life and a little AI

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The Huawei Mate 9 stands out with long battery life and a little AI

Engadget

Huawei needs new tricks to differentiate its products from the crowd of Chinese phones permeating the US market, and it's turning to artificial intelligence to set it apart. The Mate 9 is a new Android device that offers a "Machine Learning Algorithm" that purports to learn your habits over time and optimize performance so that the device is more responsive. The Mate 9, which is expected to arrive in the US soon (although the exact timing is unknown), also has one of the largest displays on the market. We don't yet know how much it'll cost in the US, but we expect the Mate 9 to sell for about the same as it does in Europe (€699), which would make it slightly more affordable than other leading big-screen flagships too. That, along with the promised performance boost and supposedly safer battery tech, might be reason enough to consider the Mate 9 as your next large-screen smartphone.