Month: May 2020
A seventh Amazon employee dies of COVID-19 as the company refuses to say how many are sick
An Amazon warehouse worker in Indianapolis, Indiana, has died of COVID-19, the company confirmed. The death brings the known total of COVID-19 deaths at Amazon warehouses to seven, but Amazon’s process for notifying workers makes the true number difficult to determine. Several workers at IND8 first learned of the death…
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This new AI camera sensor could make CCTVs frighteningly smart
Sending images and videos to the cloud to be analyzed not only takes more time but also raises privacy concerns which is why Sony has announced the world’s first image sensors with built-in AI. The new IMX500 and IMX501 intelligent vision sensors incorporate a logic processor and memory which allows…
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Steam uses AI to find interesting games you already own
Valve launched Steam Labs late last year as a way to test out new features for its PC games store. While it already brought the machine learning-based Interactive Recommender from Labs to the regular Library, the latest client update adds a wrinkle w… Source
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Here’s Why Everyone On Facebook Is Talking About Woodstock And The Coronavirus
A surprising narrative about COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, is spreading: that fears of the pandemic are overblown because in 1969, the Woodstock music festival was held during a flu pandemic. The claim has been shared thousands of times via Facebook posts and memes. “Instead of shutting…
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Apple to launch a new iPad and a new iPad mini with bigger screens, says Ming-Chi Kuo
Apple is planning to launch a new 10.8-inch iPad and a new iPad mini with a screen that could be as large as 9 inches, according to a new investor note from Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo obtained by MacRumors. The note also mentions a potential 2022 release date for Apple’s…
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The new documentary ‘Spacedrop’ takes viewers inside a simulated space quarantine
“The first Asian Jew in fake space” — that’s how Josh Burstein introduced himself to me when we hopped on the phone earlier this week. The fake space in question is the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS), where NASA has been periodically isolating teams of astronauts to study…
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