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DRDO Offers Short-Term Online Courses In Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security

Education | Written By Bhoomika Aggarwal | Monday January 25, 2021

The Defence Institute of Advanced Technology under the Department of Defence Research and Development has started two short-term online programmes on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) and Cyber security.

Google Suspends Second AI Ethics Researcher, Union Says

Agence France-Presse | Friday January 22, 2021

Google has suspended an artificial intelligence (AI) ethics researcher weeks after dismissing another member of the team, Timnit Gebru, a recently formed union said.

Lucknow Police Deploying AI Cameras to Recognise Facial Expressions of Women in Distress and Alert Officers

Jagmeet Singh | Thursday January 21, 2021

The Lucknow police is deploying facial recognition technology backed by artificial intelligence-enabled security cameras that will read expressions of women in distress and alert their nearest police station.

Google Investigates Another Ethical AI Team Member Over Handling of Sensitive Data Following Timbit Gebru Exit

Reuters | Wednesday January 20, 2021

Google is investigating a member of its ethical AI team and has locked the corporate account linked to that person after finding that thousands of files were retrieved from its server and shared with external accounts, the company said.

Google "Investigates" AI Researcher Over Handling Of Sensitive Data

World News | Reuters | Wednesday January 20, 2021

Alphabet Inc's Google is investigating a member of its ethical AI team and has locked the corporate account linked to that person after finding that thousands of files were retrieved from its server and shared with external accounts, the company said on Wednesday.

General Motors Teams Up With Microsoft to Accelerate Rollout of Electric, Self-Driving Cars

Associated Press | Wednesday January 20, 2021

General Motors is teaming up with Microsoft to accelerate its rollout of electric, self-driving cars. In the partnership announced Tuesday, the companies said Microsoft’s Azure cloud and edge computing platform would be used to “commercialise its unique autonomous vehicle solutions at scale.”

Facebook to Use AI in Predicting if COVID-19 Patients Need Better Healthcare

ANI | Tuesday January 19, 2021

Facebook is publishing a research conducted by its artificial intelligence (AI) unit in an effort to help healthcare providers predict in advance if a COVID-19 patient may need more intensive care solutions and adjust resources accordingly.

Google AI Makes Two Hybrid Bakery Recipes; Can Machines Cook Better Than Humans?

Neha Grover | Thursday January 14, 2021

Google put one of its AI tools to creating two strange hybrid bakery recipes. One of cakie - a fusion of cake and cookie, and the other one of brekkie - an amalgamation of bread and cookie.

From PBX to Bixby, How Samsung Research Evolved in India Over 25 Years

Jagmeet Singh | Tuesday January 12, 2021

Samsung’s research and development (R&D) has been evolved a lot in the last 25 years. Dipesh Shah, the Managing Director of the Samsung R&D Institute India-Bengalore (SRI-B) told Gadgets 360 that it moved from building technologies for call centres to developing advanced voice intelligence for Bixby and bringing vision AI to mobile devices.

D-Link Launches ‘World’s First’ Wi-Fi 6 Adapter, Wi-Fi 6 AI Mesh Routers at CES 2021

Tanishka Sodhi | Tuesday January 12, 2021

D-Link launched a Wi-Fi 6 USB 3.0 adapter and two Wi-Fi 6 AI mesh routers at CES 2021. The adapter is claimed to be the ‘first such Wi-Fi 6 USB 3.0 adapter in the market.’ It has speeds up to 574Mbps in the 2.4GHz band and 1,200Mbps in the 5GHz band.

Samsung at CES 2021: SmartThings Cooking Service, JetBot 90 AI+ Cleaner, Bot Handy Robot Debut

Jagmeet Singh | Tuesday January 12, 2021

Samsung on Monday hosted its CES 2021 event to launch SmartThings Cooking service, JetBot 90 AI+ home cleaning bot, and Bot Handy robot with the ability to pick things up.

LG webOS 6.0 Introduced for Its 2021 Smart TV Lineup With New UI; Magic Remote Gets NFC Support

Tanishka Sodhi | Friday January 8, 2021

LG webOS 6.0 has been introduced for its 2021 OLED, QNED Mini LED, NanoCell, and UHD smart TVs. It will have an updated home screen that the company says will provide faster access to the most frequently-used apps. The new Magic Remote will have hot keys for Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and Disney +.

OpenAI Unveils DALL·E and CLIP AI Models That Create and Classify Images

Jasmin Jose | Thursday January 7, 2021

DALL·E is one of two new GPT-3 models from OpenAI. It can create images from any text input fed to it. The other is called CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training) that classifies images into categories from arbitrary texts. DALL-E has raised questions regarding copyrights issues since it sources images from the Internet.

Dell Launches Wide Range of Latitude, Precision Laptops and OptiPlex Modular Desktops

Jagmeet Singh | Tuesday January 5, 2021

Dell on Tuesday launched the Latitude 9420, Latitude 7520, Latitude 5420, and Precision 3560 laptops and OptiPlex 7090 Ultra as well as OptiPlex 3090 desktops. The company also launched the UltraSharp 40 Curved WUHD Monitor as well as three video conferencing-supported monitors in 24-, 27-, and 34-inch sizes.

IIT Kharagpur To Train Scientists, Engineers In High-Performance Computing, AI

Education | Reported by Press Trust of India | Saturday January 2, 2021

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur has received a project to impart training to students, faculty, scientists, researchers in high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence, the institute said in a statement.