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Samsung's new digital assistant, Bixby, tries to push past voice recognition toward true AI

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The Galaxy S8 smartphone can see, listen, and learn. Bixby can be summoned by voice or with the press of a physical catch on the new Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+.  Utilizing voice summons with a cell phone is just the same old thing new, however Samsung's new advanced right hand, Bixby, goes past voice acknowledgment, to join profound learning and extended visual hunt to make it feel more like a genuine computerized partner living in your gadget.  Bixby attracts quick correlations with Apple's Siri, and Google's Assistant, yet while we regularly consider those as just voices, Samsung portrays Bixby has its own card-based visual interface to pass on data. Voice is only one a player in the condition. Alternate angles are vision (like utilizing the camera to check a QR code, discover the cost of a book in light of its cover, or interpret content), updates, and proposals. Bixby is the umbrella term for those four brilliant capacities.  Sriram Thodla...

This building hanging from an asteroid is absurd—but let’s take it seriously for a second

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Because cranes definitely never fall. Have you at any point needed to wake up and see the bend of the Earth? Or, on the other hand needed to live only inside? Shouldn't something be said about go to bed some place above Ecuador and wake up close Cuba? Well uplifting news, weirdos—there's an engineer out there considering you.  Welcome to the Analemma tower. Nothing says 'welcome home' like the vacuum of space. It's around 32,000 meters high (that is 104,987 feet) and it dangles from a space rock by a link numerous kilometers long. On the off chance that it wasn't at that point self-evident, this is not a building that exists yet, and it's not a practical arrangement. But on the other hand it's not a joke. The firm that planned it, the Clouds Architecture Office, represents considerable authority in peculiar applied outlines. Dissimilar to different planners who worry about senseless things like aux...

AI and deep learning can now help you be more popular on Twitter

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PI, the Post Intelligence Mascot To make the AI more accessible, Post Intelligence created this mascot. What is the point of Twitter? The 11-year-old microblogging platform is a social network, a broadcasting tool, a public relations platform, a joke incubator, and a news aggregator. It’s a daunting medium, but with the help of a little AI, it doesn’t have to be. At least, that’s the premise of Post Intelligence, a social media assistant tool launched this week by a pair of former Google executives. “We’re dubbing it the world’s first AI-based media assistant,” says Bindu Reddy, co-founder and CEO of Post Intelligence. “It focuses on problems in the realm of social media which humans find difficult to do, that require a lot of brain energy, like simply establishing a social media presence, getting followers, writing engaging things, making insightful comments.” To this end, a user signs into Post Intelligence with a social media account, and within two minutes ...

Apple's iOS 10.3 update is freeing up gigabytes of storage space on iPhones

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If you update your  iPhone  to iOS 10.3 today, you'll likely find that you have an extra gigabyte or more of free storage space available on the phone's internal memory. For that, you can thank Apple's new file system, called APFS, which replaces the Hierarchical File System that has been used in one form or another for three decades. The Apple File System (APFS for short) was originally announced at Apple’s 2016 Worldwide Developer’s Conference and will eventually spread across all of Apple’s product lines, from the high-end MacBook Pro all the way down to the Apple Watch, later this year. In addition to improved storage efficiency, APFS is also made with increased ability to maximize advantages offered by solid state media. More importantly, the file system was engineered with modern security in mind. "It's been built with encryption as a primary feature, from the very beginning, as we brought this idea to fruition," Eric Tamura, a manager focusing ...

Screens of the future could be made with transparent silver

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There's a decent shot you're taking a gander at—or through—some indium tin oxide (ITO) at this moment. This clay material behaviors power, yet is straightforward, which makes it urgent for the creation of screens of numerous sorts, similar to those on cell phones and LCD TVs. Be that as it may, indium isn't hauled out of the ground specifically—it's a side effect of refining different metals—and the U.S. necessities to import it from spots like Canada and China. Subsequently, scientists have been searching for a feasible ITO swap for over 10 years, and it might come as a super-thin layer of silver. It isn't so much that indium is madly costly—it cost about $109 per beat by and large a year ago, on the free market—nor is it extraordinarily uncommon. In any case, "its supply is settled," Ioannis Kymissis, a partner educator of electrical building at Columbia University, says, "in light of the fact that there's no genuine essential source....