Tech News from Simmons Systems (Page 492)

Tech News from Simmons Systems

Kia Unveils EV6 Teaser and New Naming Strategy for Electric Future

Kia releases teaser images of the EV6, its first dedicated battery-electric vehicle built on a shared platform with Hyundai. The automaker also introduces a new "EV" prefix naming scheme to clearly identify its future electric lineup.

PayPal Expands Crypto Capabilities With Acquisition of Security Startup Curv

PayPal acquires digital asset security firm Curv to bolster its cryptocurrency team and prepare for new crypto product launches across its platforms. The reported deal value ranges between $200 and $300 million.

voice assistants

White-Label Voice Assistants Poised to Dominate Podcast Discovery

As podcast listenership surges past 100 million Americans, white-label voice assistants emerge as the unlikely winners in the battle for audio discovery. These customizable platforms offer device manufacturers a powerful alternative to Big Tech's dominant voice ecosystems.

Automation Platform Zapier Acquires No-Code Education Startup Makerpad

Zapier makes its first-ever acquisition by purchasing Makerpad, a no-code education platform and community. The deal allows Makerpad to operate independently while helping Zapier expand its reach in the rapidly growing no-code movement.

reinforcement learning

Reinforcement Learning Framework Enables Robust Walking in Bipedal Robots

Researchers develop a model-free reinforcement learning method that trains robust locomotion policies in simulation and successfully transfers them to the real Cassie bipedal robot.

Meta Unveils DINO for Unsupervised Computer Vision Object Segmentation

Meta introduces DINO, a self-supervised Vision Transformer method that achieves state-of-the-art computer vision results while automatically segmenting objects without any labeled data or specific segmentation objectives.

vision transformers

Self-Supervised Vision Transformers Reveal Surprising New Capabilities

Researchers introduce DINO, a self-supervised method that gives Vision Transformers unique properties like explicit semantic segmentation without labels. The approach achieves 80.1% top-1 accuracy on ImageNet using linear evaluation.

Honda Secures World's First Legal Approval for Level 3 Autonomous Vehicles

Honda makes history by earning the first-ever government approval to sell Level 3 self-driving cars in Japan. The automaker plans to launch the equipped Honda Legend before March to handle congested highway traffic.

Honda Leases First Level 3 Autonomous Vehicle to Japanese Drivers

Honda releases 100 units of its flagship Legend sedan equipped with a Traffic Jam Pilot system, making it the first approved Level 3 self-driving production car available to consumers.

General Motors Selects Qualcomm Snapdragon Ride Chips for Ultra Cruise System

General Motors chooses a trio of Qualcomm processors to power its upcoming Ultra Cruise automated driving system. The technology aims to handle 95% of driving scenarios on all paved roads starting in 2023.

Facebook Trains Billion-Parameter Image AI Using One Billion Unlabeled Instagram Photos

Facebook develops SEER, a massive computer vision model that partly teaches itself by grouping one billion public Instagram images before fine-tuning on labeled data.

Facebook Builds Massive AI by Training on One Billion Instagram Photos

Facebook develops SEER, a billion-parameter computer vision system that learns to recognize objects by pretraining itself on a billion unlabeled Instagram images before fine-tuning on labeled data.

artificial intelligence

AI Tackles Piano Playing and Unfolds Sealed 17th Century Letters

Researchers use computer vision to recreate piano music from silent video and deploy advanced algorithms to virtually unfold fragile historical letters. These creative applications show how artificial intelligence extends into arts and humanities.

Canada Faces Complex Regulatory Shifts in Energy and Infrastructure Sectors

Canadian energy and infrastructure businesses encounter increasingly complex rules and strict compliance requirements as the nation reaches a major regulatory turning point.

Facebook Unveils SEER: AI Model That Learns to Recognize Images Without Labels

Facebook introduces SEER, a self-supervised AI model that teaches itself to identify objects in photos using unlabeled Instagram data. The breakthrough system outperforms existing models while significantly reducing training time.