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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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How Vannevar Bush Engineered the 20th Century

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To this day, Bush’s article—titled “As We May Think”—and his subsequent elaborations of networked information appliances are credited with shaping what would become the personal computer and the World Wide Web. And it deepened during the long Cold War. He was also a business innovator.

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Aclima partnering with Google to map outdoor air quality with Street View vehicles

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a San Francisco-based company that designs and deploys environmental sensor networks, is partnering with Google Earth Outreach to map and better to understand urban air quality. EPA provided scientific expertise in study design and instrument operations as part of a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with Aclima.

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Forget JPEG, How Would a Person Compress a Picture?

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But, as engineers, we are trained to ask if we can do better. For decades, scientists and engineers have attempted to distill aspects of human visual perception into better ways of computing the loss function. But when we push the compression envelope further, artifacts emerge, including blurring, blockiness, and staircase-like bands.

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Challengers Are Coming for Nvidia’s Crown

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Founded in 1993, Nvidia first made its mark in the then-new field of graphics processing units (GPUs) for personal computers. Because otherwise they can’t have fun, even if they have the best model,” says Jennifer Prendki , head of AI data at Google DeepMind. It’s hard to overstate Nvidia’s AI dominance. and 4 services.

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Ending an Ugly Chapter in Chip Design

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The crux of the clash was whether Google’s AI solution to one of chip design’s thornier problems was really better than humans or state-of-the-art algorithms. It pitted established male EDA experts against two young female Google computer scientists, and the underlying argument had already led to the firing of one Google researcher.

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Infiniti reimagines luxury SUVs with new three-row QX80 | Autocar Professional

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The QX80 is the first of the four new models announced in October 2023, as part of a comprehensive range refresh, signalling a product renaissance for the company. The latest Infiniti in Touch system comes with Google built in so that Google Maps, Google Play, and Google Assistant are the latest available.