Samsung on Thursday launched its new Galaxy Note 9 flagship phone at the Barclays Center in New York, home of the Brooklyn Nets. It’s a massive, great phone, as you might expect, and it costs a bomb. But there was much more that Samsung showed off, including Fortnite’s Android debut, the Galaxy Home smart speaker and a …
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Google, one of the top companies in the hot area of artificial intelligence, will begin letting customers directly use its custom processors for the technology starting in October. Google’s TPUs, or tensor processing units, accelerate AI tasks like understanding voice commands or recognizing objects in photos. Today, Google will let you pay to do that kind of work on its …
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Google Duplex is a technology that’s designed to work for people, not take their jobs — at least, according to Google. When Google unveiled Duplex at its I/O conference in May, it caused quite a stir. The technology is an expansion of its Google Assistant AI that is meant to sound much more human. Google says the main purpose of …
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There’s always one person. Seventeen takes. And Karen’s blinking. But no need to host an intervention — Facebook plans to fix your photos with AI. The company released a research paper this week, authored by two Facebook engineers, which outlines a new method of recreating eyes in photos using what’s known as a “exemplar generative adversarial network” or ExGAN. It’s …
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No slow-mo? No worries. Nvidia wants to help you turn any old video shot on your phone into a blur-free, slow-motion masterpiece, and it’s using artificial intelligence to do it. Researchers at the company have developed a new deep-learning system that can convert standard video into slow-mo by adding additional frames after the video has been shot. The result would …
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Samsung’s making another big bet on artificial intelligence. The company on Wednesday said its Silicon Valley-based Samsung NEXT business has launched a new fund to invest in early-stage startups “solving AI problems, as well as those using AI to solve computer science problems.” The Q Fund doesn’t have a cap, but it falls under Samsung NEXT’s overall $150 million investment …
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Damn. Asus is loving the multi-screen laptops this year. Fresh after announcing its new ZenBook Pro lineup — the laptop that comes complete with 5.5-inch full-HD touchpad, because one screen is so passé — Asus took to the stage at Computex in Taipei on Wednesday to unveil its vision of the future: the Precog dual-screen laptop. That’s right, where we’re …
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Intel has finally crossed the last threshold of artificial intelligence — re-creating the adorably grungy and slightly out-of-sync sounds of your high school rock band. The chipmaker pulled out all the stops at its Computex keynote in Taipei on Tuesday, with its senior vice president and GM of client computing, Gregory Bryant, unveiling brand-new eighth-gen Intel Core chips, showing off …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Siri was more than happy to chat about Apple’s WWDC on Monday, but it turns out she was talking about last year’s developers conference. Now, if you ask Siri about Apple’s upcoming WWDC, the digital assistant says, “You can get all the details …
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Considering its work with Cortana, Microsoft’s acquisition of Semantic Machines makes perfect sense. Announced Sunday, the purchase is designed to bolster not just Microsoft digital voice assistant Cortana but also social chatbots like XiaoIce, which has had up to 30 billion conversations across China, Japan, the United States, India and Indonesia. Berkeley, California-based Semantic Machines describes itself as developing the …
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