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Google’s Pixel Slate Shows Up at Benchmark With Core i7, 16GB RAM – Droid Life

If Google shows off a new Pixel tablet on October 9 that’s powered by Chrome OS, expect it to be as high-end as previous Chrome OS-powered Pixel devices. A device under the codename “nocturne,” which is thought to be Google’s Pixel Slate (rumored name), stopped off at GeekBench to reveal some specs.

A handful of benchmarks were run and they all show a Google device under that “nocturne” name with 16GB RAM and a dual core Intel Core i7-8500Y processor. It’s also running Android 9 “Pie.”

Most Chromebooks (maybe all of them) that are capable of running Android apps, currently run Android 7.1.1 (the Pixelbook does). This is the first appearance of Android 9, which could mean that we’ll not only get new Pixelbook and Pixel Slate devices in a week, we may also see an Android update within Chrome OS. That’s big news.

The thing to keep in mind here is that these specs are not on the low-end. If were you were hoping that Google would go light on the Pixel Slate or Pixelbook specs in order to make their computing devices more affordable, I doubt that’s happening. Google is targeting the high-end, even if that high-end is Chrome OS and the sell there has remained a difficult one for many.

// Chrome Unboxed | Geekbench

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Huawei Watch GT Leak Suggests 7 Day Battery Life

Battery life is often the major concern of smartwatch customers and Huawei may address that with its upcoming wearable device. A new Huawei Watch GT leak has surfaced and it suggests that the smartwatch may have 7 day battery life. The company is expected to launch this smartwatch alongside its new Mate 20 devices later this month.

The Huawei Watch GT reportedly features a 1.39 inch circular AMOLED display and will be available in two variants, Classic/Fashion and Sport. The leaked image is apparently of the former. The Sport variant may have an all black look.look with a silver bezel.

We can see two large buttons on the side which will be used to control some functions. It would obviously have touch input as well. The Huawei Watch GT will be water resistant so it could be used for swimming and may also have NFC and GPS.

It reportedly features a 420mAh battery which may last for up to 7 days. That would be partly made possible by the new energy efficient smartwatch processor, the Snapdragon Wear 3100, that Qualcomm unveiled a few weeks back. However, it’s not confirmed if the Huawei Watch GT will indeed come with this cheap. That being said, it would certainly be running Google’s Wear OS.

As far as the price is concerned, the Huawei Watch GT is expected to cost between €190-229. The company will obviously confirm pricing for all major markets once it officially announces its next smartwatch which its fans have been waiting for since the spring of 2017.

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Pictar Pro grip turns your smartphone into a makeshift DSLR

Smartphone cameras these days can almost rival DSLRs in many ways, especially with their more convenient portability and general purpose functions. There are still, however, things that a dedicated camera will always be able to do better, like offering tactile and more precise physical controls and having a viewfinder that works under the brightest of days. Rather than spend twice on a smartphone and a camera, miggo is offering a more practical alternative: the Pictar Pro Advanced camera grip that transforms your iPhone or Android phone into one.

We’ve all seen accessories that promise to make your smartphone into an honest to goodness camera. Some do it through lenses, other through cases. miggo’s Pictar is different. It utilizes your smartphone’s already capable cameras and lenses but instead adds a grip with the wheels and buttons that pro photographers love. That idea sold well both on Kickstarter two years ago and even after the campaign ended. Now miggo is back with a pro version that adds a whole lot more.

You’d be surprised at how many features you can cram into a handy grip that only occupies half your smartphone’s body. In this round, the Pictar Pro gains four larger control wheels and buttons, including one for exposure compensation, multi-state shutter release, zoom rocker, and a smart wheel that can cycle through different modes. The grip also features built-in wireless charging so you won’t have to worry (too much) about your phone dying in the middle of a shoot.

The most interesting innovation in the Pictar Pro, however, is the Viewfinder. Yes, you can attach a viewfinder to make it easier, even possible, to take your best shots even when you can’t make out your phone’s screen because of the bright sunlight. What it does is to shrink the camera apps preview into a small window that you could then view through a smaller, distraction-free and glare-free screen. Just like a real camera!

Part of the magic that makes the Pictar Pro possible is the Pictar App. In addition to providing pro-level camera controls, it can also recognize the smartphone being used and adjust its settings accordingly. And, yes, it is also responsible for that almost magical viewfinder feature. Best of all, you don’t need to do much to get started. Just slide the phone in, start the app and you’re good to go.

Despite all those features, the Pictar Pro retains its predecessor’s handy design and improves on it. A cold shoe connector lets you add a mic or a flash to really look and sound like a pro. It also supports a tripod attachment so you won’t grow gorilla arms. The grip is also designed to fit all sizes of iPhones from the 6 to XS to whatever comes next, including Plus size models, as well as Android phones. All that for only $119 on Kickstarter if you’re fast enough, $129 to $189 depending on your reward options, and $245 if you wait until it hits the market.

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Researchably’s AI parses medical research for pharmaceutical companies

Medical papers’ verbiage makes them difficult to digest quickly. In fact, according to a recent study, they’ve become demonstrably more difficult to read over the past century, thanks to a rise in science-specific jargon. The authors concluded that about one-fifth of texts were “beyond the grasp” of even people who had studied English for 17 years.

That’s why Maciej Szpakowski, a graduate in acoustical engineering and computer science from the University of Southampton, founded Researchably (previously FuseMind), a startup that employs artificial intelligence (AI) — specifically natural language processing — to parse and extract key information from research papers. It’s focused squarely on the domain of life science and was selected this year by the University of California Berkeley’s SkyDeck accelerator.

Researchably’s solution is designed for pharmaceutical companies, Szpakowski explained, whose researchers spend countless hours (as many as 1,500 annually) analyzing and reviewing scientific journal articles.

“Biomedical research communicated in published literature underpins the pharma industry. Our AI platform makes the entire process of research review exponentially more efficient,” he said. “The improvement at Sanofi is remarkable. Our platform is freeing up that time.”

The company’s AI first categorizes papers at a high level, determining whether they’re observational or experimental in nature. It then susses out the meaning of the literature by searching for synonyms, expanded acronyms, and relationships between keywords. Finally, based on factors including individual researchers’ specialties and expressed interests, it autonomously decides whether to pass the research along.

To date, Researchably has built a specialized database of 30 million papers, 340,000 clinical trial records, 750,000 patents, and tens of millions of company and researcher profiles. It claims it’s able to cut the amount of time spent scanning a paper from 13 minutes to less than a second, and that, moreover, it’s able to spot errors human reviewers sometimes miss.

“Typically, there are three of 10 papers incorrectly categorized, which means important information is not being funneled to the right people who need it,” he said. “Researchably practically eliminates those [oversights].”

Of course, it isn’t the only one setting AI loose on academic journals.

Berlin-based Iris.ai uses URLs and descriptions of specific questions to return a map of matching documents grouped by topic. The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence’s Semantic Scholar, meanwhile, can not only highlight key findings in publicly available research from across the web, but identify which are the most influential or controversial.

Yet other examples of paper-parsing AI include IBM’s Watson platform, which in 2014 sourced findings from 100,000 papers to successfully predict the interactions of a tumor-suppressing protein, and DARPA’s Big Mechanism, a $45 million program aimed at developing software that can read cancer research papers and integrate them into a single model.

But Szpakowski maintains that Researchably is one of the first to make market inroads. In show of confidence in the tech, French firm Sanofi and other unnamed pharmaceutical companies agreed to pilot the startup’s tech.

“Working with Researchably is looking into the future of the pharmaceutical industry. Reviewing scientific information is fundamental to everything we do, and they are disrupting how that happens, making it much faster, far simpler, and much more accurate,” said a Sanofi communications lead involved with the pilot.

Researchably raised $100,000 million in funding in June, after completing a year in the University of Southampton’s Future Worlds accelerator.

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