Archive for the ‘AI’ Category
Thursday, September 10th, 2020
Richard Yu, Executive Director and CEO of Huawei delivered the opening keynote address for the second annual Huawei Developer Conference in a live broadcast, unveiling the latest updates on HarmonyOS, Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) and EMUI11.
Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei Consumer Business Group addressing the attendees at the Huawei Developer Conference. Image credit: Huawei.
During the keynote, Huawei announced upcoming major updates for:
- HarmonyOS 2.0
- EMUI 11
- HMS Core 5.0
- HUAWEI HiLink
- HUAWEI Research
A brief summary of the updates below.
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Tags:CEO, China, conferences, events, Huawei, keynotes
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Friday, September 4th, 2020
IFA 2020 Special Edition (3-5 September) is into its second day in Berlin press conferences by a slew of industry participants.
Day 2 of IFA 2020 Special Edition (3-5 September) in Berlin.
Here’s a sampling of what industry leaders shared today.
Dr. IP Park, President & CTO, LG Electronics shared that it has achieved a milestone in its developments in smart home living because “with this level of digital integration, we’re really beginning to build an evolving, connected and open eco-system of smart products and services that can deliver so much more than the sum of its parts – going above and beyond device-level thinking to unlock a whole new world of potential at the system-level.”
“We really need to make sure we understand the shocks to come in this market. What are we going to do to be vigilant to understand the next wave and how we might react and how we are going to put our teams in a position where they can make better decisions,” said Sean O’Neill, Chief Product Officer at GfK.
Matthias Ginthum, CMO BSH Hausgeräte envisaged that “we at BSH want to be the first company in our industry to neutralize the direct carbon dioxide emissions of all our locations worldwide.”
For Frederic Langin, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, TCL Europe; TCL’s mission is “to make life intelligent with innovative technology to make our customers’ lives easier and smarter.”
Looking forward, Yannick Fierling, CEO Haier revealed that “Haier will introduce new solutions – based on an ecosystem built from the Internet of Things – for turning the group vision of Smart Home and Smart Living into reality.”
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Tags:Berlin, BSH, events, Germany, Haier, Honor, Huawei, Hyundai, IFA, IFA 2020, IFA GPC, LG, Miele, Opel, Schneider, TCL
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Thursday, March 26th, 2020
At its online global launch event, Huawei has just launched its latest flagship P40 line-up and three new devices. Local Pricing & Availability will be announced at the Singapore launch tomorrow. Stay tuned.
Richard Yu, CEO, Huawei Consumer Business Group launches the anticipated flagship P40 series 5G smartphones and three other new devices – Sound X speaker, Watch GT2e, and Gentle Monster Eyewear.
As expected, the P40 Series offers 5G and pushes the frontier in smartphone photography, with its Leica camera system and AI engines.
The series comprises three models:
- Huawei P40 (799 Euros, 8GB+128GB, 7 April)
- Huawei P40 Pro (999 Euros, 8GB+256GB, 7 April)
- Huawei P40 Pro+ (1,399 Euros, 8GB+512GB, June)
A new smart photography feature enables users to easily remove passers-by and reflections in a photo.
The Huawei P40 series pushes the envelope for mobile phone photography.
Bolstered by Huawei’s largest CMOS sensor yet and intelligent AI capabilities, the Huawei P40 Series offers its most advanced smartphone camera to date.
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Tags:Android, Devialet, flagship, Gentle Monster, global, Huawei, launch, Leica, P40, prices, smartphones, smartwatches, Sound X, speakers, Watch GT, wearables
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Thursday, March 5th, 2020
You can now ask Google Assistant to read aloud the text on a webpage – basically turning any webpage into a podcast! The new functionality is now available on all Android phones.
Check out the video about the new Read It feature for Google Assistant in Android phones.
Nowadays we consume so much content on our tiny smartphone screen – news, articles, stories etc.
For older folks with failing eyesight, or anybody with visual or reading difficulties, Google Assistant can now read web articles on your smartphone browsers out loud.
How to have a page read aloud
When a web article is displayed on the browser in your Android phone, you can say, “Hey Google, read it” or “Hey Google, read this page” – Google Assistant will immediately read aloud the content of the web page, using a voice of your choice.
To help you follow along, your browser will automatically scroll the page and highlight words as they’re read aloud.
You can also alter the reading speed, jump forward or backwards by 30sec and 10sec respectively or skip to any part of the web page.
I’ve always wished that I could consume web content while I’m driving.
At the moment, you can only do that if it’s a podcast, or unless you just listen to the audio of a video, because you got to keep your eyes on the road while driving.
So I listen to the news or radio, or my own music while I drive.
With the ability of Google Assistant to read aloud web pages, I don’t have to postpone perusing a web article until when I can read it myself.
I can listen to it when I’m driving, or taking a bus or train (using earphones) so that I don’t have to strain my eyes reading on a moving vehicle.
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Tags:Android, assistant, Google, Internet, new arrivals, OS, software, voice
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Friday, January 3rd, 2020
Atish Gude, NetApp’s Chief Strategy Officer shares three predictions for 2020, putting the spotlight on 5G, Blockchain and infrastructure virtualisation solutions.
* This article is contributed by Atish Gude, based on his professional experience and personal opinions.
What does 2020 hold in store?
2019 was a year of rapid innovation – and disruption – for both the IT industry and the broader business community.
With the widespread adoption of hybrid multicloud as the de-facto architecture for enterprise customers, organisations everywhere are under tremendous pressure to modernise their infrastructure and deliver tangible business value around data-intensive applications and workloads.
Multiclouds & Virtualisation
As a result, organisations are shifting from on-premises to leverage public cloud services, building private clouds, and moving from disk to flash in data centers – sometimes concurrently.
These transformations open the door to enormous potential, but also introduce the unintended consequence of rising IT complexity.
We predict that a demand for simplicity and customisability will be the number-one factor driving IT purchasing decisions in 2020.
Data-driven transformations
Vendors will need to provide customers modern, flexible technologies with the choice of how to use and consumes these technologies to meet evolving business models.
As IT departments look to de-emphasise maintenance and hardware, reduce overhead, and adopt pay-as-you-go models, simplicity and choice will be key.
Achieving this simplicity will serve as the foundation for companies as they navigate the exciting technological trends we’ve identified below.
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Tags:5G, AI, Blockchain, IoT, NetApp, predictions, Tech Focus, trends, virtualisation
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Tuesday, October 15th, 2019
AI Singapore has selected Dell Technologies High-Performance Computing infrastructure to enhance its Artificial Intelligence (AI) competencies.
Romain Bottier, HPC & AI senior solution architect, South Asia, Dell Technologies (left) and Laurence Liew, director, AI Industry Innovation, AI Singapore at the press conference.
Dell Technologies will provide three key computational building blocks for the new supercomputer at AI Singapore to help drive performance and flexibility for its researchers and to scale up its flagship 100 Experiments (100E) programme.
“AI Singapore is pleased to work with Dell Technologies to develop a thriving ecosystem for AI. The close collaboration between AI Singapore’s and Dell Technologies’ engineers has allowed us to co-design and customise a unique infrastructure to meet our AI research, development and AI model deployment needs that are aimed at showcasing the real-world benefits of AI and broadening its adoption in Singapore,” said Laurence Liew, director, AI Industry Innovation, AI Singapore.
At the same time, the Dell Technologies AI Experience Zone in Singapore will support AI Singapore’s efforts to increase AI understanding, education and adoption in Singapore.
Dell EMC PowerEdge servers are equipped with Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and Dell EMC PowerSwitch open networking switches and provide scalable business architecture, intelligent automation and integrated security, allowing AI Singapore to run demanding AI workloads within the data centre and in the cloud.
More details below from the press release.
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Tags:AI Singapore, DELL, Dell EMC, Singapore
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Saturday, August 17th, 2019
Predictronics is an AI-driven predictive maintenance analytics solutions provider headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.
TVS Motor (Singapore) Pte. Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of TVS Motor Company Limited, India, has signed definitive agreements to invest US$3.2 million in Predictronics Corporation, which specialises in providing end-to-end predictive maintenance analytics solutions.
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Tags:AI, analytics, Big Data, corporate, funding, IIoT, machine learning, predictive, Predictronics, TVS Motor
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Monday, July 22nd, 2019
The closing of the investment is subject to obtaining appropriate regulatory approvals.
TVS Motor (Singapore) Pte. Limited led this Series A funding in Scienaptic, an AI-powered decision platform.
TVS Motor (Singapore) Pte. Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of TVS Motor Company Limited, India, has signed definitive agreements to invest US$7 million in Scienaptic Systems Inc., a Delaware corporation, headquartered in New York City.
Scienaptic combines the latest big data technologies and proprietary machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms on its decision platform, “Ether”.
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Tags:AI, corporate, credit, Fintech, funding, insurance, Scienaptic, TVS Motor
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Wednesday, August 22nd, 2018
Acronis True Image 2019 offers AI-based Ransomware Shield and Blockchain authentication technologies to provide an additional layer of cyber protection for home users. Available now online: buy new from S$49.99, upgrade or try free for 30 days.
Acronis Founder and CEO, Serguei Beloussov, launched the new True Image 2019 in its Singapore office at Suntec Tower 3.
Acronis has released the 15-year Anniversary Edition of its personal backup software, Acronis True Image 2019.
Key capabilities of Acronis True Image 2019 include the following.
- (New) Acronis Survival Kit: An all-in-one universal recovery tool for your system.
- (New) Active Disk Cloning for Mac: Migrate all your data from your Mac to another device.
- Acronis Active Protection: AI fighting off ransomware attacks for you.
- Acronis Notary and ASign: Blockchain technology ensuring data integrity with notarisation and e-signing.
- Backup for Social networks: All your profiles are now defended.
More details below from the press release.
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Tags:Acronis, ASign, backup, Blockchain, data, digital signatures, launch, Notary, protection, ransomware, Singapore, software, True Image
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Tuesday, March 27th, 2018
Huawei has unveiled in Paris, France the new P20 and P20 Pro smartphones. These two new flagship models promise to continue Huawei’s focus on camera prowess in collaboration with Leica.
Update (2 April, 2018):
Singapore is one of the first few countries to launch the new phones. The prices, colours and availability of the Huawei P20 and Huawei P20 Pro in Singapore has been released. Read the details here.
The P20 and P20 Pro includes improvements to Huawei’s AI engine for enhanced camera functionality while the P20 Pro features the new Leica triple camera.
Key features of the Huawei P20 series include the following.
- The Huawei P20 Pro features a camera that promises to capture more light and detail with the new Leica triple camera, boasting what the company claims the smartphone industry’s highest pixel count.
- The Huawei P20 features a new Leica dual camera.
- Both includes Master AI which includes AI-driven professional photography settings and Huawei AIS – its AI stabilisation technology.
- Thin bezel, with new colours including a dynamic gradient finish.
- Features Kirin 970 processor with a dedicated NPU and EMUI 8.1 based on Android 8.1 for a premium and smooth user experience.
In addition to the P20 and P20 Pro, Huawei also unveiled the Porsche Design Huawei Mate RS (Race Sport).
Singapore will be one of the first few countries in the world to launch the Huawei P20 and Huawei P20 Pro in early April 2018.
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Tags:Android, flagship, France, Huawei, launch, Leica, P20, P20 Pro, Paris, smartphones, unveil
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