Enlarge / The Pentagon in its natural habitat—Arlington, Virginia—in 2018. Amazon is continuing to fight the Department of Defense over a $10 billion contract, as the Pentagon has completed its review of the deal and determined once again that it was correct to award the entire project to Microsoft. The DOD launched bidding for the […]
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Image copyright Getty Images The US Defense Department has determined that 20 top Chinese firms, including Huawei, are either owned by or backed by the Chinese military. The list, seen by US media, features video surveillance firm Hikvision, China Telecoms, China Mobile and AVIC. The determination could lay the groundwork for new US financial sanctions
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In a paper published on the preprint server Arxiv.org, researchers at Facebook describe wav2vec 2.0, an improved framework for self-supervised speech recognition. They claim it demonstrates for the first time that learning representations from speech, followed by fine-tuning on transcribed speech, can outperform the best semi-supervised methods while being conceptually simpler, achieving state-of-the-art results using
Four days after leak publisher DDoSecrets circulated private documents from more than 200 law enforcement agencies across the United States, Twitter has permanently suspended its account and falsely claimed that the site may infect users with malware. “Your account, DDoSecrets, has been suspended for violating the Twitter rules,” this email, which Twitter sent to the
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Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino The Federal Communications Commission has reversed course on whether to let SpaceX and other satellite providers apply for rural-broadband funding as low-latency providers. But Chairman Ajit Pai said companies like SpaceX will have to prove they can offer low latencies, as the FCC does not plan to “fund untested technologies.”
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Blender’s ability comes from the immense scale of its training data. It was first trained on 1.5 billion publicly available Reddit conversations, to give it a foundation for generating responses in a dialogue. It was then fine-tuned with additional data sets for each of three skills: conversations that contained some kind of emotion, to teach
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Has the Houseparty app been hacked or is sabotage to blame? NurPhoto via Getty Images Houseparty is one of the must-have apps for people self-isolating or in lockdown during the coronavirus pandemic. With more than 10 million downloads from Google Play, and daily downloads increasing from 24,795 per day on February 15 to an astonishing
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Mailchimp has released its first annual report since 2016, highlighting a number of key milestones for the email platform turned all-in-one marketing platform. The company claims a 60.51% share of the email industry, supporting over 12 million customers. Its closest competitor comes in at only 9.52%. Why we care Mailchimp — along with a number
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A report is being circulated as proof that the App Store has been infected by malware apps that could steal your data one day. Only, AppleInsider has been examining the research for some time, and it is baseless exaggeration, riddled with inaccuracies. Security firm Wandera claims multiple apps by AppAspect Technologies contained “clicker Trojan” code
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Co-op and its media buying agency Dentsu Aegis Network have teamed up to create the first-ever ad campaign that uses custom Google algorithm tech that optimises for viewer attention. The algorithm optimises online media buying after campaign assets have been put through eye-tracking research. Using attention as a key variable is a departure from conventional
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