Neowin News Feed for: Cnn

Samsung News starts rollout in the United States, bringing balanced coverage

Paul Hill — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 01:06:02 +0000

Samsung News has begun rolling out to users in the United States. It aims to give users a more balanced view of the news by bringing in articles from a range of diverse sources, on the left and right. Read more...

Microsoft starts rolling out automatic music detection and noise suppression to Teams

Usama Jawad — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 05:56:01 +0000

Microsoft has announced some audio enhancements for Teams. Machine learning-based noise suppression is now enabled by default while automatic music detection will be rolled out in the coming months. Read more...

Researchers accelerate sparse inference on XNNPack and TensorFlow Lite for realtime apps

Ather Fawaz — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 06:20:01 +0000

XNNPack and TensorFlow Lite now support efficient inference of sparse networks. Researchers demonstrated substantial speedups in inference times on realtime gesture detection and background blur apps. Read more...

Researchers have now used neural networks to pinpoint qubits in large-scale quantum computers

Ather Fawaz — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 06:50:01 +0000

A team at the University of Melbourne has trained a CNN to pinpoint qubit atom locations in a 2D lattice of phosphorus atoms, which is a proposed design choice for large-scale quantum computing. Read more...

Apple adds Covid-19 section to news app to fight fake news

Paul Hill — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 16:18:02 +0000

Apple has launched a new section in its news app to help people find verified information about the Covid-19 disease. It also includes the latest case figures and tips to help you fight the disease. Read more...

Google AI model outperforms traditional methods of weather prediction

Ather Fawaz — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 06:52:01 +0000

Researchers at Google AI employed a trained convolutional neural network in nowcasting precipitation. The results were instantaneous and more accurate than traditional methods in certain scenarios. Read more...

Neural network system has achieved remarkable accuracy in detecting brain hemorrhages

Ather Fawaz — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 04:32:01 +0000

Researchers at UC Berkeley and UCSF School of medicine have trained a convolutional neural network system that can detect brain hemorrhages with near-perfect accuracy within seconds. Read more...

Microsoft envisions efficient 4D tracking using deep learning methods

Hamza Jawad — Sat, 14 Sep 2019 07:52:01 +0000

The 4D tracking techniques would use 4D dynamic solid modeling of a cluttered space by collecting depth data from 3D cameras. These modeling concepts can then be applied in a number of use cases. Read more...

Larry Page-funded Kitty Hawk shows off single-seat flying machine

Paul Hill — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 16:16:02 +0000

Kitty Hawk has unveiled its newest iteration of the Flyer vehicle. The "flying car" doesn't need a license to operate as it doesn't meet the weight requirement to be classified as a plane. Read more...

New LeakerLocker Android ransomware threatens to dox victims if demands are not met

Dreyer Smit — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 15:02:01 +0000

With ransomware in the news almost every week, a new threat called LeakerLocker has emerged that affects Android users by extorting money from them, in exchange for not spreading private information. Read more...

CNN to become the latest to retire its Windows Phone app

Rich Woods — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 22:00:01 +0000

CNN will be the latest company to kill its Windows Phone 8.1 app, as it plans to retire it on July 18. The app has already been removed from the Windows Store, as has the Windows app. Read more...

Bing Pulse to be used by MSNBC and CNN during State of the Union 2015 broadcast

Shreyas Gandhe — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 21:54:01 +0000

MSNBC and CNN, two of the biggest news networks in the US will enable their viewers to vote and discuss the State of the Union speech from President Obama in real time on January 20. Read more...

NeoBytes :) The US elections featured CNN announcers using a Surface as an iPad stand

Steven Johns — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 09:58:01 +0000

Microsoft partnered up with CNN for the elections coverage and gave the news team a bunch of Surfaces to proudly display, but some of the announcers couldn't let go of their iPads during the event. Read more...

CNN social media accounts compromised by SEA [Update]

Jett Goldsmith — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 00:32:41 +0000

More social media accounts have been compromised today by the Syrian Electronic Army - this time belonging to a major American news network CNN. Read more...

Bill Gates thinks Jeff Bezos's Amazon flying delivery drone plan is "optimistic"

John Callaham — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 15:47:18 +0000

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said Monday in a TV interview that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' vision of delivering packages via automated flying drones is perhaps on the "over-optimistic end" of things. Read more...

Path and Flipboard coming to Windows Phone 8; Oggl Pro coming to Lumia 1020

John Callaham — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 17:52:23 +0000

Nokia has announced a number of new third party Windows Phone 8 apps , including Path, Flipboard and Oggl PRO, the latter of which will be released exclusively for the newly revealed Lumia 102 Read more...

CNN launches official Windows 8 app; Microsoft Sports app updated

John Callaham — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 01:05:37 +0000

The CNN TV news network has finally launched its official Windows 8 app in the Windows Store today, and Microsoft has also released an update for its in-house Sports app. Read more...

Online trolls: "The Internet got the best of me"

Michael Collado — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 22:55:31 +0000

Anonymity online has been the double edged sword of Internet expression since cloaked commentary was allowed on every piece of media, from the tech blogs to the established periodical empires. And sometimes, the established tech... Read more...

CNN Senior Editor fired over tweet; are we taking Twitter too seriously?

Tzvi Friedman — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:31:26 +0000

All it took was a few hastily typed words. In what may not seem like a blip on the technology news radar screen, a high-ranking CNN news editor was fired on Wednesday over a simple tweet.... Read more...

CNN and FBI think Google Earth is in real-time

Benjamin Rubenstein — Tue, 04 May 2010 14:15:10 +0000

Gawker (taken from Geekosystem) has posted what will likely be today's biggest laugh in the tech world. Live on CNN, anchor Don Lemon was speaking with former FBI Assistant Director, Tom Fuentes, regarding the recent... Read more...