(Reuters) — The Australian government launched a controversial coronavirus tracing app on Sunday and promised to legislate privacy protections around it as authorities try to get the country and the economy back onto more normal footing. Australia and neighboring New Zealand have both managed to get their coronavirus outbreaks under …
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Flytrex today announced the launch of a drone delivery service in Grand Forks, North Dakota. In collaboration with drones-as-a-service company EASE Drones, the Grand Forks Region Economic Development Corporation, the Northern Plans Unmanned Aerial System Test Site, and the City of Grand Forks, the startup will deliver food, medicine, and …
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OpenAI today launched Microscope, a library of neuron visualizations starting with nine popular or heavily neural networks. In all, the collection encompasses millions of images. Like a microscope can do in a laboratory, Microscope is made to help AI researchers better understand the architecture and behavior of neural networks with …
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Multiplayer VR melee game Ironlights is launching on April 9 for PC VR headsets via Oculus and Steam, as well as on the Oculus Store for Oculus Quest for $ 20. The game ran a successful Kickstarter campaign earlier in the year, and is now launching a full release after a limited …
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In 2016, Australian firm TPG Telecom won the bid to become Singapore’s fourth telco. Then in December last year, TPG announced that it will offer free mobile service for a year to the first 20,000 users who register their interest. Due to such positive interest, TPG has relaunched the free one-year trial in March 2019 …
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Today, following the launch of a Facebook program that’s matching developers with organizations to build solutions that inform people about COVID-19, Facebook revealed the steps it’s taking to help Messenger users stay connected. Via a new hub — the Messenger Coronavirus Community Hub — the network is providing tips and …
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Following the launch of its 2020 Call for Code Global Challenge, IBM today announced that it will coordinate an effort to provide over 200 petaflops of computing power to scientists researching COVID-19, the coronavirus that’s sickened over 300,000 people. The company anticipates that the capacity will be used to develop …
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Google today announced machine images, a new type of Compute Engine resource in Google Cloud that contains all the information required to create, back up, or restore a virtual machine. The company claims it’ll reduce the time network admins and data scientists spend managing their cloud environments by eliminating extra …
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Google AI today released TensorFlow Constrained Optimization (TFCO), a supervised machine learning library built for training machine learning models on multiple metrics and “optimizing inequality-constrained problems.” The library is designed to help address issues like fairness constraints and predictive parity and help machine learning practitioners better understand things like true …
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