Computer vision researchers build an AI benchmark app for Android phones – TechCrunch

A group of computer vision researchers from ETH Zurich need to do their bit to enhance AI development on smartphones. To wit: They've created a benchmark system for assessing the performance of multi major neural network architectures used for common AI tasks. The app, called AI Benchmark, is available for download on Google Play and can run on any device by Android 4.1 or higher — generating a score the researchers describe as a "final verdict" of the device's AI performance. AI tasks being assessed by their benchmark system include image classification, face recognition, image deblurring, image super-resolution, photo enhancement or segmentation. For Samsung processors, the researchers flag up that all the company's devices are continue running Android 8.0 but AI acceleration is only available starting from Android 8.1 and above.

AMC TV now has its own Android TV app

To that end, AMC has just launched an Android television app. AMC has had an Android app for years, but this one is specifically for Android TV. The app requires a cable provider login and provides ad-supported full episodes of AMC's hits like "The Walking Dead," "Preacher," and, er, the other "Walking Dead." You can grab the app now on the Play Store (or, of course, from APK Mirror). As of writing, the Play Store listing says there are "0+" installs, extremely hurry up if you need to feel like you were on board before everybody else.

Leaked Android app shows message scheduling is coming to Google's Gmail

as declared in A recent build of Google's Gmail app for Android detects that the service going to eventually backing email scheduling. Although scheduling email sounds like a task abused by spammers, there are legitimate reasons for delayed messages. Microsoft's Outlook client alavailiable provides message scheduling. Currently Google has not officially announced email scheduling, nor does the code provide any indication of the time the service going to arrive. But even if the app does contain code for message scheduling, the service likely isn't live yet, or is currently attached to just a handful of beta testers.

YouTube adding swipe gestures for skipping videos in Android app

YouTube adding swipe gestures for skipping videos in Android app01 August 2018YouTube has been rolling out a handful of features lately but as most of the times, some of them are available to just choose number of users in a soak analisis before being introduced to the wider public. The laanalisis update brings backing for swiping to skip to the next or go back to the previus video but it's continue not available to everyone. The gestures are pretty intuitive and replaces the forward and back buttons that appear on the video the time you tap on it. The transition animations shown in the video below remind us of Android P's recent apps switcher. Take a look at the videos below, the first one recorded by the new gestures enabled When the 2nd one shows the current state of YouTube's Android app.

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