Fortnite’s ‘safety and fairness’ ban actually hurts users and developers
Google researchers use quantum computing to help improve image classification
ProBeat: Microsoft’s Surface Duo is dead on arrival, regardless of price
Google open-sources LIT, a toolset for evaluating natural language models
Problematic study on Indiana parolees seeks to predict recidivism with AI
Epic’s antitrust case against Apple’s App Store monopoly
Amazon launches Braket quantum computing service in general availability
AI researchers devise cheap data collection method to scale training robots
Researchers propose using ‘rare word’ dictionaries to bolster unsupervised language model training
Researchers find people are more receptive to social robots during the pandemic
An Apple One services bundle is pointless if consumers only save $2-$5
How the pandemic is influencing robotics research
Keeper Security raises $60 million to protect companies from data breaches
Check Point researchers uncovered Alexa flaw that exposed personal information and speech histories
Research shows natural language benchmarks don’t measure AI models’ general knowledge well
Researchers claim bias in AI named entity recognition models
Locomation completes public road trial of semi-autonomous truck convoy tech
AI startup steps in to unlock the puzzle of infertility with machine learning
Gong raises $200 million to surface sales insights with AI
Varjo raises $54 million to bring VR with ‘human eye’ resolution to more industries
What Kamala Harris’ record says about major AI policy issues
WordPress 5.5 arrives with lazy loading, sitemap, automatic updates for plugins and themes
Google details 50 new Classroom and Meet features for the pandemic school year
Facebook claims it proactively detected 95% of hate speech removed in Q2 2020
Researchers use AI classifiers to expose potential vulnerabilities in Microsoft remote desktop
Standard Cognition partners with Circle K on cashierless convenience stores
IBM, Grillo, and the Linux Foundation partner on early earthquake detection systems
Pinterest expands lipstick Try on feature to over 10,000 shoppable shades
AI cybersecurity startup Elisity raises $7.5 million to protect networks from attack with AI
Google’s Lookout can now detect paper currency and read document text aloud
Google rolls out earthquake detection and new in-car features for Android
Atomwise raises $123 million to accelerate drug discovery with AI
K2View raises $28 million to automate enterprise data unification
Simpplr raises $10 million for its AI-powered intranet platform
Hyundai-Aptiv joint venture promises commercial autonomous vehicles by 2022
University of Michigan study advocates ban of facial recognition in schools
Mux raises $37 million to streamline video delivery and analytics
Researchers find ‘inconsistent’ benchmarking across 3,867 AI research papers
