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DeepMind AI’s AlphaStar achieves Grandmaster level in StarCraft II with 99.8% efficiency

Earlier this year in January, Google’s DeepMind AI AlphaStar had defeated two professional players, TLO and MaNa, at StarCraft II,…

5 years ago

Netflix open sources Polynote, an IDE-like polyglot notebook with Scala support, Apache Spark integration, multi-language interoperability, and more

Last week, Netflix announced the open source launch of Polynote which is a polyglot notebook. It comes with a full…

5 years ago

Linux Foundation introduces strict telemetry data collection and usage policy for all its projects

Last week, the Linux Foundation introduced a new policy around the collection and usage of telemetry data. As per this…

5 years ago

Are we entering the quantum computing era? Google’s Sycamore achieves ‘quantum supremacy’ while IBM refutes the claim

Two days ago, Google astonished many people around the world with claims that they have achieved a major milestone in…

5 years ago

PostGIS 3.0.0 releases with raster support as separate extension

Last week, the PostGIS development team released PostGIS 3.0.0. This release works with PostgreSQL 9.5-12 and GEOS >= 3.6. If…

5 years ago

OpenAI’s AI robot hand learns to solve Rubik Cube using Reinforcement learning and Automatic Domain Randomization (ADR)

A team of OpenAI researchers shared their research of training neural networks to solve a Rubik’s Cube with a human-like…

5 years ago

Facebook releases PyTorch 1.3 with named tensors, PyTorch Mobile, 8-bit model quantization, and more

Yesterday, at the PyTorch Developer Conference, Facebook announced the release of PyTorch 1.3. This release comes with three experimental features:…

5 years ago

California bans the distribution of political deepfakes ahead of 2020 Presidential election

Yesterday, the California bans political deepfakes, government passed a law that makes it illegal to distribute deepfakes or deceptively edited…

5 years ago

Adobe bans accounts of all Venezuelan users in compliance with the US sanctions

The U.S. based software company Adobe Inc. announced yesterday that will be canceling all subscriptions and deactivating all accounts for…

5 years ago

Google’s DNS over HTTPS encryption plan faces scrutiny from ISPs and the Congress

On September 29, the House Judiciary Committee scrutinized Google’s plans for using DNS over HTTPS (DoH) this is “because of…

5 years ago