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Google Quick Draw Launched, a Web Game That Showcases the Prowess of Neural Networks

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Google seems to be currently obsessed with neural networks, which uses human-like systems to bring contextual understanding to machine learning. On Tuesday, the company announced the implementation of the technique for its translation tool and now its latest mini-game 'Quick Draw' showcases how this technology can be both impressive and fun at the same time. Although the name of the web game suggests that it might have something to do with the Wild West, Quick Draw asks players to draw doodles of a certain word that is shown to them. Then the players have to draw the doodle using just their mouse cursor and then company's artificial intelligence gets into action. It tries to guess the word from the doodle being drawn by the player and if your doodle is not up to the mark, you don't get any points. Interested readers can check out the game over  here .

Nvidia Debuts Tesla P100 Accelerator With 15B Transistors for AI, Deep Learning

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Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang used the opening keynote of the company's annual GPU Technology Conference to announce a massive new processor designed specifically for deep learning. The Tesla P100 is the first shipping product to use Nvidia's new Pascal architecture, and is made up of 15.3 billion transistors, which the company says makes it the largest microchip ever fabricated. The Tesla P100 is built using a new 16nm FinFE manufacturing process and uses 16GB of HBM2 graphics memory which is integrated onto the same chip substrate, which results in memory bandwidth of up to 720GBps. Peak performance is rated at 21.2 Teraflops for half-precision instructions, 10.6 Teraflops for single-precision and 5.3 Teraflops for double-precision workloads. Up to eight Tesla P100 chips can be interconnected using Nvidia's NVLink bus. The Tesla P100 is claimed to deliver over 12x the performance of Nvidia's previous generation Maxwell architecture in neural network training scen

YouTube for Android and iOS Revamped, Gets Better Recommendations

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YouTube Android and iOS app on Tuesday got a facelift as the company updated the app's home feed design and also improved the recommendation engine. The team also introduced Bumper ads for short YouTube videos. Until now users saw a similar  YouTube  home feed design on the Android and iOS app like they did on the desktop. However, after the update the app's feed design focuses on large, high-resolution thumbnails of videos with as little text as possible. The new design also prominently shows profile icons of the creators under their videos. More options to remove the video from the feed, add it to Watch Later list or playlist, saving the video offline, and share it on other platforms can be accessed from the three dot more icon on the right side of each video listing. In addition, groups for recommended videos have now been completely removed as all the videos now appear in a single ranked list. We are not sure how well the interface changes will go down with users.

Google Brain Makes Use of Neural Networks to 'Enhance' Pixelated Images

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Some technologies depicted in sci-fi movies appear too far-fetched at times but now it seems like the 'zoom and enhance' method, often used to identify crime suspects from pixelated photos, is closer to reality than ever. Google Brain research team has come up with a technology that is able to produce detailed pictures from originally pixelated source images with the help of two neural networks. The neural networks - Conditioning and Prior - enable Google Brain's software to generate pictures that are much more detailed than the original pixelated 8x8 images. At this point, we would like to clarify that the extra detail is not produced from the source image itself but is added by the best possible guesses made by the software. The technique used by Google Brain for producing extra detail by the software essentially consists of two parts. First, the Conditioning neural network takes the original pixelated 8x8 picture, compares them with other images available on

SpaceX to Launch 10th Resupply Ship to Space Station Next Week

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US aerospace major SpaceX has targeted February 18 for the launch of its 10th cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station for NASA. The SpaceX Dragon resupply ship is targeted to lift off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center. "Targeting February 18 for Dragon's next resupply mission to the @Space_Station ? our 1st launch from LC-39A at @NASA's Kennedy Space Center," the Hawthorne-headquartered company  tweeted  on Wednesday. "The Expedition 50 crew trained today for the robotic capture of the SpaceX Dragon and studied how the brain adapts to living in space. Three crew members also conducted an emergency drill aboard the International Space Station," NASA researchers wrote in a blog post on the same day. The tenth commercial resupply mission from SpaceX will deliver advanced space research to improve disease-fighting drugs, observe Earth's climate and automate spacecraft navigation, the US space a

Fire at Samsung SDI Factory; Faulty Batteries Blamed

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A minor fire that broke out at a Samsung SDI factory in China on Wednesday was caused by waste products including faulty batteries, the Korean company and local emergency services said. The fire broke out at the  Samsung Electronics Co Ltd  affiliate's factory in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin earlier on Wednesday and has been extinguished, a Samsung spokesman said, adding that there were no casualties or significant impact to the plant's operations. The fire broke out not on the production line itself but in a part of the facility used for waste, including faulty batteries, said Samsung SDI spokesman Shin Yong-doo. He added that most of the factory was running as normal. The local fire department, however, said on its microblog that the fire was caused by batteries inside the facility. The "material that caught fire was lithium batteries inside the production workshops and some half-finished products", the Wuqing branch of the Tianjin Fire Depar

Xiaomi Mi MIX Running Android 7.0 Nougat Spotted in Benchmarks; Update Likely to Start Soon

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Xiaomi Mi MIX, a concept smartphone that's being sold in limited quantities in China, is likely to receive the Android 7.0 Nougat update soon. The Xiaomi smartphone has been spotted running the Android 7.0 Nougat update on a benchmark site. The Xiaomi Mi MIX Android Nougat isn't exactly a surprise as the Chinese company released an MIUI ROM based on Android 7.0 Nougat for its beta testers in December. The smartphone spotted at the Geekbench Browser benchmark is likely a test unit being tested ahead of the complete rollout. The benchmark was first spotted by GSMArena. Xiaomi has already confirmed to Gadgets 360 that the Mi MIX smartphone won't be coming to the Indian market. Making its debut at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in 2017, Xiaomi announced a new Mi MIX variant in White colour option. To refresh, the Xiaomi Mi MIX was  unveiled  as a limited edition concept smartphone, made in collaboration with French designer Philippe Stark, in October last y

Moto Z Series Gets a New Moto Mod - The 'Edge' LED Notification Light

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Smartphones these days are enroute to stagnation in form factor and design, but Lenovo brand Moto tried to break the monotony with its Moto Mods that can be slapped at the back of its Z series smartphones. The Moto Mods are accessories that can enhance some features on your Moto Z smartphones, while also beautifying them at the same time. Until now, Moto Mods have only been available from the company itself or big third-parties like JBL, with doors open for other smaller kickstarter projects to commence developing their own Moto Mods built out of developer programme. We are now seeing one of these smaller projects that is essentially a LED-notification light frame called the Edge. The 'Edge' Moto Mod is an Indiegogo project that aims to make you look at your phone only for the notifications that you want to look at. It is an RGB lighting system for Moto Z smartphones that glows when notifications arrive on your smartphone in four different patterns. You can personalise

HTC 10 evo Launched in India at Rs. 48,990: Release Date, Specifications, and More

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Taking after its dispatch in Taiwan in November, HTC on Thursday has brought one of its top-end cell phones to India - the HTC 10 evo. The cell phone is as of now accessible to purchase from the HTC India E-Store in its Pearl Gold shading variation, and has been evaluated at Rs. 48,990. To review, the HTC 10 evo is the worldwide variation of the HTC Bolt, which was propelled in the US in November also. In Taiwan, it was made accessible in Gunmetal, Silver, and Gold shading variations. The 32GB inbuilt stockpiling variation of the cell phone has been conveyed to India. Capacity is expandable through microSD card (up to 2TB). One of the greatest highlights of the HTC 10 evo is it packs USB Type C-empowered 'double versatile' earphones that tailor their yield to the client's ear structure and hearing. This is joined with HTC BoomSound Adaptive Audio. The HTC 10 evo sports a 5.5-inch QHD (1440x2560 pixels) show with Corning Gorilla Glass 5, and games a water-safe alum

Nubia Z9 mini Gets 4G VoLTE Support, Enhanced Camera Features With Latest Update

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ZTE's Nubia model contains introduced that its Z9 mini smartphone is having an up grade that delivers 4G VoLTE (voice earlier mentioned LTE) help alongside other features. The business suggests that the enhance is currently live and ZTE Nubia Z9 mini people can down load the upgrade through the formal Nubia India website. Aside against the 4G VoLTE service, the update too provides Android basic safety patches from Google as very well as digicam upgrades. The Nubia Z9 Mini (Review) enhance boosts Nubia UI to version Four.0. The brand name information out that the most up-to-date up grade too brings the firm's patented Body interactive Technological know-how with which consumers can engage with the cellphone through the screen edges. Other improvements extra via the new upgrade incorporate contemporary calendar application and a model fresh new "my file" for the usefulness of employ the service of of the prospective buyers Nubia Z9 mini people will comprise t

Nokia 6 Isn't Being Sold in Flash Sales, It Just Sells Out That Fast, Clarifies HMD Global

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Nokia Six, the comeback smartphone for Nokia, is endorsing which includes warm cakes inside of China. HMD Global, which owns rights to the Nokia brand, includes currently clarified that the Nokia Six was not currently being bought as a result of JD.com just after flash income design and style. HMD Worldwide wrote in direction of Nokia Energy User clarifying that the Nokia 6 is advertising much too quickly providing an affect that it may well be available under flash sale type. "Actually we incorporate been updating the inventory upon JD.com additional than 3 situations nevertheless those people have been historically absent inside minutes or hours, thus that's why on your own include the impression that we have been doing flash income," explained the HMD Worldwide personnel. The small business furthermore self-assured that far more Nokia Six techniques will be generated offered within China. "We will retain Present in the direction of JD for certain and at pre

iPhone 8 Tipped to Cost Above $1,000 Thanks to OLED Display

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There is been a large amount of speculation regarding the apple iphone Eight with standards and design and style changes currently being at the forefront. Sad to say, a clean article sheds some light upon the selling price vicinity the iPhone Eight may possibly fall in. Reportedly, the top quality unit manufacturing Apple's ten 12 months anniversary may perhaps properly be priced north of $1,000 (roughly Rs. 67,100) - because of in the direction of the advent of OLED exhibits. On top of that, the report as well claims that Apple may speak to it the iPhone X as a substitute of the mostly speculated iPhone Eight. Prompt Business enterprise cites people today familiar with the make any difference toward assert that there will be 3 versions that will release within just this slide. The initial two versions will be presumably be - a Four.7-inch iPhone 7s and a Five.5-inch apple iphone 7s Additionally - which will match LCD demonstrates. The iPhone Eight will be activity a 5.8-inch