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Facebook AI now fixes bugs like spellcheck corrects typos

Writing got a lot easier when spellcheckers and grammar checkers arrived on the scene. Now Facebook is using artificial intelligence to give programmers a similar boost with a tool called SapFix that’ll debug their software. “SapFix can automatically generate fixes for specific bugs, and then propose them to engineers for approval and deployment to production,” Facebook engineers Yue Jia, Ke …

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Smartwatches to rule nearly half of wearables market by 2022, says IDC

Smartwatches may be having their moment, but basic wearables like step-counting wristbands haven’t yet run out of time. So says market researcher IDC, which predicted on Thursday that shipments of smartwatches will nearly double by 2022, clocking in at 94.3 million units. That’s nearly half the total number of wearables to be shipped the same year, which IDC says should …

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