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The Engineer Behind Samsung’s Speech Recognition Software

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Every time you use your voice to generate a message on a Samsung Galaxy mobile phone or activate a Google Home device, you’re using tools Chanwoo Kim helped develop. The most rewarding part of my career is helping to develop technologies that my friends and family members use and enjoy,” Kim says.

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Elon Musk makes it to TIME Magazine’s list of 100 Most Influential People in AI

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The list includes notable leaders in artificial intelligence such as OpenAI’s Sam Altman and NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang, as well as Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis. When DeepMind was bought out by Google in 2014, Musk became concerned that the tech giant would not take AI safety seriously.

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NIO's battery swap network open to other brands, just like cloud service, says William Li

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Cloud services around the world, whether they are offered by Microsoft, Google and Amazon in the United States or Alibaba, Tencent and Huawei in China, they all have one thing in common: The companies themselves are the primary users. You certainly can't achieve this kind of service if you're not the biggest user yourself," he said.

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How the Huawei Fight is Changing the Face of 5G

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Meng's arrest on fraud charges was widely seen as part of that campaign. Part of the problem was a lack of alternatives. In 2018, a U.K. With US companies barred from doing business with Huawei, Google could no longer license its Android operating system—the operating system that runs most of the world's phones—to Huawei.

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Competing Visions Underpin China’s Quantum Computer Race

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Like their competitors IBM , Google , Honeywell , and D-Wave , both Chinese companies profess to be developing "full stack" quantum businesses, offering access to quantum computing through the cloud coupled with their own suite of algorithms, software, and consulting services.

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Lux forecasts global driver assist market to grow to $102B market by 2030

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Although “ the hype around autonomous vehicles often reaches levels that defy logic ,” Lux tartly notes, the foundational technologies that are being progressively deployed as part of that technology roadmap can be rationally analyzed for opportunity. Partial autonomy features lag in onset but grow to a $22.7 billion opportunity by 2030.

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In 1989, General Magic Saw the Future of Smartphones

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Skeuomorphic design began to wane in the mid-2000s, as Microsoft, Google, and Apple embraced flat design. Part of the shift away from skeuomorphism was purely functional; as devices added more applications and features, designers needed a cleaner display to organize information. Gone were needless animation and 3D effects.

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