Business Innovation visa holders exempt from Australia's COVID-19 travel ban
As at 14 September 2020, there were 10,591 Business Innovation and Investment (Provisional) visa holders outside of Australia.
Baidu’s smart home group seeks to raise capital at a $2.9 billion valuation
The group responsible for developing Baidu's voice platform, DuerOS, will seek to raise capital at a $2.9 billion valuation.
Fujitsu to expand Western Sydney data centre
Western Sydney Phase 2 will add 4,500 square metres of technical area and 20 megawatts of new capacity.
Influence of number of membership functions on prediction of membrane systems using adaptive network based fuzzy inference system (ANFIS)
Avian Influenza (AI) is a complex but still poorly understood disease; specifically when it comes to reservoirs, co-infections, connectedness and wider landscape perspectives. Low pathogenic (Low-path LP) AI in chickens caused by less virulent strains of AI viruses (AIVs)—when compared with highly pathogenic AIVs (HPAIVs)—are not even well-described yet or known how they contribute to wider AI and immune system issues.
AI can detect COVID-19 in the lungs like a virtual physician, new study shows
New research shows that artificial intelligence can be nearly as accurate as a physician in diagnosing COVID-19 in the lungs. The study also shows the new technique can also overcome some of the challenges of current testing.
Who thought political ads featuring Deepfake Putin and Kim trashing the US was a good idea?
A not-for-profit called RepresentUS, working with creative media agency Mischief @ No Fixed Address, recently used the popular Deepfake AI system to create a pair of political ads featuring actors digitally manipulated to look like Vladmir Putin and Kim Jong Un mocking the current state of US politics.
Pentagon Is Clinging to Aging Technologies, House Panel Warns
Despite the Pentagon’s talk of embracing quantum computing and artificial intelligence, the politics of killing off old weapons systems is so forbidding that the efforts often falter.
Microsoft Edge to get a web screenshot utility
New "Web capture" feature is currently being tested in Edge Dev and Edge Canary builds.
Harnessing big data and artificial intelligence to predict future pandemic spread
During COVID-19, artificial intelligence (AI) has been used to enhance diagnostic efforts, deliver medical supplies and even assess risk factors from blood tests. Now, artificial intelligence is being used to forecast future COVID-19 cases.
ExamSoft’s remote bar exam sparks privacy and facial recognition concerns
To administer bar exams in 20 different states next week, ExamSoft is using facial recognition and collecting the biometric data of legal professionals.
Google’s Smart Cleanup taps AI to streamline data entry
Smart Cleanup, an AI-powered Google Sheets feature that automatically detects and removes duplicates and more, is now generally available.
LinkedIn open-sources GDMix, a framework for training AI personalization models
LinkedIn recently open-sourced GDMix, a framework for training the sort of AI personalization models used in search engines and ecommerce websites.
Google’s Cloud TPUs now better support PyTorch
Courtesy of PyTorch/XLA (a now generally available Python library), Google's Cloud TPUs can better support Facebook's PyTorch machine learning framework.
Quantum computing meets cloud computing: D-Wave says its 5,000 qubit system is ready for business
Quantum-as-a-service can solve in minutes the problems that might take classical computers a whole day to work through.
Machine learning to automated daydreaming: academics map future of AI
Imperial academics have plotted the roles that AI could play in our future society in a new map that connects reality to science fiction.
VR specialist in the movie industry passes time by creating photorealistic images of Roman emperors
Daniel Voshart, a CG specialist in Hollywood who normally works on creating special effects sequences for movies, has been spending his pandemic downtime using his skills to create photorealistic images of Roman emperors. Voshart describes his work in an article on the online publishing platform Medium.
Applying machine learning to keep employees safe and save lives
Bigmate is using machine learning to reduce workplace accidents, help companies detect potentially ill employees during COVID, and aid in natural disasters.
Arm unveils new chips for advanced driver assistance systems
Chipmaker Arm today announced new hardware solutions designed to handle autonomous vehicle perception and decision-making workloads.