News & Reviews:   AI

Chinese subsidiary Canon Information Technology might have gone too far managing its employees. The firm is putting its employees under surveillance with AI-enabled smile recognition cameras that only let the smiling ones enter rooms or book meetings. This is probably one of the most dystopic ways used to enhance the workplace culture.

Food delivery is probably one of the services that people can't go without during the pandemic. To up the game, Grab has announced that it will start its pilot robot runner service at Paya Lebar Quarter Mall (a mall located in Singapore) to help in handling orders across several restaurants within the mall.

Mid-range chipsets are becoming more trendy now thanks to the market demands. In Qualcomm's latest development, the company have just announced a brand new Snapdragon 778G 5G Mobile Platform. Here's everything you need to know about the mid-range chipset.

Digital maps have become an important tool for many of us today. Apps like Google Maps help make navigation easier, but it's only going to get better from now on. In fact, Google plans to introduce over 100 more features in 2021, including Live View.

As many of you know, advances in technology lead to improved products and platforms. These advances are sometimes achieved with our help, indirectly or not. Now, Facebook has a new technology that takes advantage of the content uploaded by its users.

In order to combat the dip in fertility rate, Japan has plans to allocate around 2 billion yen (~RM78k) to fund an AI tech to help matchmake individuals to increase the birth rate in the country. While there are already human-run matchmaking services available, the AI system could potentially increase the success of getting individuals matched.

If you watch a lot of YouTube videos, there's a good chance that you might have come across some lengthy videos with chapter timelines. That said, it's also a lot of work for YouTubers to manually input the details which you can find in the description video. 

As you know, the Covid-19 cases in our country have hit an all-time high a few days ago. Our government has also started to applied stricter MCO rules across the red zones to prevent the virus from continuing spreading throughout the country. While it's obvious that the pandemic is far from coming to an end, Facebook is trying to fight it with the help of an AI algorithm.

Based on a statement by gizmochina, it seems that Xiaomi’s sub-brand Youpin has recently unveiled the Dabai super-power ion smart toilet that’s also voice-activated at the price of RMB3599 (~RM2221). However, due to the fact that it was crowdfunded, the smart toilet will go on sale for a cheaper price of RMB2288 (~RM1411) for a limited time.

Although this is the era of 5G, the technology hasn't been fully adopted by most of the major countries yet. As 5G is still on its way to global domination, Samsung has already started to focus on developing the next-generation 6G network. Today, things are getting real as they have shared their vision on 6G in black-and-white with the public.