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The company said its development team collected samples from across the country to understand pronunciations and variations in different languages. Flipkart is rolling out the feature for its Android app’s users starting today, with an iOS update coming later. Through this feature, you can search for products, understand product details, add them to cart, and place an order. Flipkart claims that the AI assistant is conversational, so you’ll feel like you’re talking to your neighborhood shopkeeper....

Citing SEC docs filed on Monday, BI calculated Berkshire held roughly 964.5 million Apple shares on September 30, worth nearly $112 billion dollars. But Berkshire disclosed $91.5 billion in Apple stock on June 30, and, after taking Apple’s closing share price into account (as well as a 4-to-1 stock split), BI reckons this meant Berkshire owned 1.003 billion individual Apple shares at the end of 2020’s second quarter. That implies Buffett sold roughly 39 million Apple shares last quarter, which represents 3....

Rather than a witness table in Washington, the execs will line up to testify via videoconferencing, which will be broadcast online on House Judiciary’s official YouTube channel. Members of House judiciary’s antitrust subcommittee have been investigating claims of unfair competitive practices and anti-consumer ruses against these tech giants for over a year. In that window, they’ve reviewed hundreds of hours of interviews and over 1.3 million documents about the companies....

The potential rewards of integrating AI into your business are immense. According to the 2020 McKinsey Global AI Survey, AI is contributing more than 20% of EBIT for an elite group of AI practitioners. Additionally, these AI High Performers spend more of their budget on AI initiatives than competitors. They also have the capabilities to develop AI solutions in-house, instead of depending on external suppliers. As Data Science matures, so does the pressure for the field to actually live up to the hype....

If you’re an AI developer, there’s a good chance you think the answer is: benchmarks. But that’s not the whole story. The big idea Benchmarks are necessary, important, and useful within the context of their own domain. If you’re trying to train an AI model to distinguish between cats and dogs in images, for example, it’s pretty useful to know how well it performs. But since we can’t literally take our model out and use it to scan every single image of a cat and dog that’s ever existed or ever will exist, we have to sort of guess how good it will be at its job....

This is more than just an aesthetic frivolity. You might’ve used your big brain to surmise that a waveguide has something to do with ‘guiding’ the sound ‘waves.’ If so, congratulations — you’re a smarty pants. But why, exactly, do you want to guide sound waves? Why would waveguides guide waves? In general, a speaker designer will use a waveguide to improve the integration between the different drivers on a speaker — to help the sound of a tweeter better match the sound of a woofer....

Been near technology in the past couple of years? Then you’ll have definitely seen 4K plastered across pretty much every screen or bit of media. But what actually is it? And why’s it called that? Well, we’ve got the answers! What is 4K? Basically, it’s a type of display resolution. And what’s resolution? When it comes to displays and screens, resolution is simply the number of pixels (AKA colored dots) they can show....

Internet of Things (IoT) technology is everywhere today, from the home to the office. One of the less familiar yet more exciting applications of IoT devices is in vehicles. One application of this technology, telematics, has seen rising popularity in both consumer and commercial circles–and it’s easy to see why. Telematics covers a broad spectrum of technologies, from GPS navigation to IoT-enabled maintenance computers. Now, you can find all of these features on a single device, sometimes built into the vehicle itself....

That’s why we reached out to three thought leaders whose companies are highly invested in artificial intelligence and the future. Without further ado, here are the predictions for AI in 2023: First up, Alexander Hagerup, co-founder and CEO at Vic.ai, told us that we’d continue to see the “progression from humans using AI and ML software to augment their work, to humans relying on software to autonomously do the work for them....

That project has allowed a new generation of researchers like me, currently a postdoctoral fellow at the National Cancer Institute, to identify novel targets for cancer treatments, engineer mice with human immune systems and even build a webpage where anyone can navigate the entire human genome with the same ease with which you use Google Maps. The first complete genome was generated from a handful of anonymous donors to try to produce a reference genome that represented more than just one single individual....

Style guides have a long history in the writing process. They’ve always affected more than what counts as good content. They affected our writing process and behaviors, our sense of community, even our egos. As AI pushes the style guide another step, how will it push us along too? Stacking style manuals The early style guides came in the form of manuscripts and books, mainly out of academia and journalism....

Why can’t we put a space station on the Moon? – Ronak, aged 17, Jaipur, India A space station on the Moon could be very useful. It would provide future space missions with a stopping point between leaving the Earth and reaching further into the Solar System or even the Milky Way. One reason we haven’t built a space station on the Moon is that we don’t send people there very often....

Computer Space, made by the small company Nutting Associates, seemed to have everything going for it. Its scenario – flying a rocket ship through space locked in a dogfight with two flying saucers – seemed perfect for the times. The Apollo Moon missions were in full swing. The game was a good match for people who enjoyed science-fiction movies like “2001: A Space Odyssey” and “Planet of the Apes” and television shows like “Star Trek” and “Lost in Space,” or those who had thrilled to the aerial combat of the movies “The Battle of Britain” and “Tora!...

With the states locked in an arms race to one-up each other on being the most privacy protective, the end result over the next four to five years could be a patchwork of state regulations resulting in not only a compliance nightmare for companies, but also a wildly uneven distribution of privacy rights for consumers. To avoid this scenario, I believe the future of data regulation in the US must come from Congress, and it must create a pre-emptive federal standard....

All I can figure is, we’re exactly two months away from the FBI’s birthday and team Trump’s determined to get the old agency the perfect gift this year. Or maybe Trump just really likes losing money. For those out of the loop here’s a video of Trump’s spokesperson discussing the matter yesterday: “I do think that we’re going to see Pres. Trump returning to social media, in probably two or three months, with his own platform....

A data-driven strategy is only half the solution Don’t get me wrong, being a data-driven organization in today’s world is critical to ensure businesses remain competitive but I’d challenge the common understanding of what being data-driven actually means. Does having a data lake or warehouse and a business intelligence team qualify you as a data-driven organization? How do you attribute being data-driven to business performance? Can you really say data is driving your business success if you’re still using Excel for your analysis and reporting?...

From Chuck Berry and Chet Atkins to Richards, Hendrix and Clapton to Tom Morello, St. Vincent and Jack White, you’ve seen one of those guitar gods strut across the world and thought that that would be the best life ever. While all those music legends have an undeniable package of talents, it all stems from the power of the guitar. Know how to play — and play it well — and you earn respect as both an artist and as an incredibly cool dude....

We are just beginning to understand the long-term consequences of this change, for worker wellbeing, for how work is carried out and for society and economies as a whole. As a work psychologist, I am interested in how these pandemic-induced changes affect individual people’s wellbeing, their behaviour and their attitudes – and what the broader effects for society as a whole might be. The pandemic is increasingly understood as a shock, an event beyond our control that disrupted our normal ways of working and living....

By our current best estimates, the trip to Mars will only take about seven to nine months. That’s not so bad, but the astronauts will likely want to return. And they also have to account for the fact that Earth and Mars have two different orbits. This means that the shortest route (per the Hohmann transfer plan) to Mars only happens once every 26 months. Astronauts could be looking at more than three years away from a habitable environment, a person tends to get hungry in that time....

The company says the new “Private Sign In” feature ought to make it easier for users to customize their feed and benefit from the recommendation engine without the fear of having their account tied to an email address. Up until now, users had to enter an email address to open an account, or simply use their Pornhub account to log in. “Private Sign In” will be available through a “private experience widget” included in the sign-in page....