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  • Xilinx and Numenta claim dramatic speed-up of neural nets versus Nvidia GPUs


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    The measure of success is throughput that trained neural networks are able to perform. XilinxThe benchmark performance carried out by Xilinx and Numenta was done on two common benchmark tests of machine learning algorithms. The implementations ...

  • Google More Than Doubles Its AI Chip Performance with TPU V4


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    TPU V4 (TPU stands for Tensor Processing Unit) reaches an entirely new height in computing performance for AI software running in Google data centers. A single TPU V4 pod, a cluster of interconnected servers combining about 500 of these process...

  • Google is trying to make its image processing more inclusive


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    It’s a long-standing problem that dates back to the days of film: image processing tends to be tuned for lighter skin tones and not that of black and brown subjects. Specifically, Google is making changes to its auto-white balance and exposure ...

  • Google aims to make a more inclusive camera


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    It’s a long-standing problem that dates back to the days of film: image processing tends to be tuned for lighter skintones and not that of black and brown subjects. Specifically, Google is making changes to its auto white balance and exposure a...

  • Amazon extends ban on police use of its facial recognition technology indefinitely


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    Council members in King County, Wash., where Amazon’s Seattle headquarters is based, are considering a local ban this month. And in Virginia, where Amazon is building its second headquarters, known as HQ2, state lawmakers just enacted one of th...

  • How resilient is your food company?


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    The food industry stays strong in any global crisis – it shows resilience, as the experts say. During a crisis, time seems to move at a faster pace, which also becomes evident in the companies of the food industry. Use of integrated systems to ...

  • Is Your iPhone Spying on You by Taking Invisible Photos? Apple Explains Infrared Camera


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    One of its selling points is the Face ID feature, where an iPhone identifies the user and automatically unlocks the phone without further prompting. They also note that the TrueDepth camera system has a tamper-detection feature. Also, note that...

  • Mindpeak Announces CE-IVD Mark for Artificial Intelligence Breast Cancer Cell Quantification


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    HAMBURG, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mindpeak, a European leader in computational pathology, announced today that it has received CE-IVD Mark for BreastIHC, an Artificial Intelligence software that detects and quantifies breast cancer cells, for ...