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(Reuters) — Two leading U.S. lawmakers, both sharp critics of China, urged Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday to consider dropping China’s Huawei from helping to build next-generation 5G telecommunications networks. Senators Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat, and Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican, said they had “grave concerns” about the … [Read more...] about U.S. legislators urge Canada to block Huawei from 5G networks

This was one of the busiest weeks in recent memory for AI assistants from Facebook, Google, and Amazon, as each of these companies began to roll out the new category of smart display devices with AI assistants, speakers, and a screen. In the same week that a new wave of Echo devices came to market like the Echo Dot and Echo Show, Google debuted the Home … [Read more...] about AI Weekly: Amazon, Facebook, and Google fight scandals and sell smart displays

Separating a single person’s voice from a noisy crowd is something most people do subconsciously — it’s called the cocktail party effect. Smart speakers like Google Home and Amazon’s Echo typically have a tougher time, but thanks to artificial intelligence (AI), they might one day be able to filter out voices as well as any human. Researchers at Google … [Read more...] about Google researchers use AI to pick out voices in a crowd

On Tuesday, Google unveiled the Home Hub, a device that delivers visual interaction with Google Assistant. A lot of what we know about the Home Hub was leaked beforehand. The same can be said for the Pixel 3, Pixel Stand, and the Pixel Slate. What’s baffling — and what might be the biggest surprise of everything that came out of Google’s biggest hardware event … [Read more...] about The curious case of Google Home Hub’s missing camera

Leveraging the extra “depth” data found in certain recent iPhone photographs, Facebook today announced a new feature called 3D Photos: images that look flat at first, but can be examined from different angles either through Facebook itself, or using Oculus VR headsets. The basic premise of a 3D Photo is that the dual cameras on the iPhone 7 Plus, 8 Plus, X, and … [Read more...] about Facebook’s new 3D Photos use iPhone camera data to simulate depth