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Google Announces Anthos Support for Multi-Cloud is Generally Available
In a recent blog post, Google announced that Athos support for multi-cloud is generally available. With Anthos, customers can now consolidate all their operations across on-premises, Google Cloud, and other clouds starting with AWS and Microsoft Azure as it is currently in preview.
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Microsoft and Google Release New Benchmarks for Cross-Language AI Tasks
Research teams at Microsoft Research and Google AI have announced new benchmarks for cross-language natural-language understanding (NLU) tasks for AI systems, including named-entity recognition and question answering. Google's XTREME covers 40 languages and includes nine tasks, while Microsoft's XGLUE covers 27 languages and eleven tasks.
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Google Introduces Service Directory to Manage All Your Services in One Place at Scale
In a recent blog post, Google introduced a new managed service on its Cloud Platform (GCP) called Service Directory. With this service, Google allows customers to publish, discover, and connect services consistently and reliably, regardless of the environment and platform where they reside.
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Google and Apple Jointly Working on Contact Tracing for iOS and Android
Google and Apple announced a joint effort to create a Bluetooth-based contact tracing solution for iOS and Android. This initiative aims to provide a tool to fight the spread of the COVID-19 virus by alerting participants who have been in contact with someone who has been positively diagnosed.
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Google's SEED RL Achieves 80x Speedup of Reinforcement-Learning
Researchers at Google Brain recently open-sourced their Scalable, Efficient Deep-RL (SEED RL) algorithm for AI reinforcement-learning. SEED RL is a distributed architecture that achieves state-of-the-art results on several RL benchmarks at lower cost and up to 80x faster than previous systems.
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Code Search Now Available to Browse Google's Open-Source Projects
Code Search is used by Google developers to search through Google's huge internal codebase. Now, Google has made it accessible to everyone to explore and better understand Google's open source projects, including TensorFlow, Go, Angular, and many others.
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Google Introduces TensorFlow Developer Certification
Google has launched a certification program for its deep-learning framework TensorFlow. The certification exam is administered using a PyCharm IDE plugin, and candidates who pass can be listed in Google's world-wide Certification Directory.
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Google Announces Cloud AI Platform Pipelines to Simplify Machine Learning Development
In a recent blog post, Google announced the beta of Cloud AI Platform Pipelines, which provides users with a way to deploy robust, repeatable machine learning pipelines along with monitoring, auditing, version tracking, and reproducibility.
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Google's MediaPipe Machine Learning Framework Web-Enabled with WebAssembly
Google recently presented MediaPipe graphs for browsers, enabled by WebAssembly and accelerated by the XNNPack ML Inference Library. As previously demonstrated on mobile (Android, iOS), MediaPipe graphs allow developers to build and run machine-learning (ML) pipelines, to achieve complex tasks.
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Google Announces Beta Launch of Cloud AI Platform Pipelines
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) recently announced the beta launch of Cloud AI Platform Pipelines, a new product for automating and managing machine learning (ML) workflows, which leverages the open-source technologies TensorFlow Extended (TFX) and Kubeflow Pipelines (KFP).
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TensorFlow Quantum Joins Quantum Computing and Machine Learning
TensorFlow Quantum (TFQ) brings Google quantum computing framework Cirq and TensorFlow together to enable the creation of quantum machine learning (ML) models.
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Go Gets New Reflection-Based Protocol Buffers API
Go's new bindings for protocol buffers, Google's language-neutral data interchange format that aims to replace JSON for high-performance applications, aim to merge the protocol buffer type system within Go's type system and enable its manipulation at runtime.
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Google Expands Open Images Dataset and Adds New Localized Narratives Annotation
Google AI has just released a new version (V6) of their photo dataset Open Images, which now includes an entirely new type of annotation called localized narratives. These multimodal descriptions of images incorporate synchronized voice, text, and mouse trace annotations that provide more in-depth training data for what is already one of the largest open "source annotated" image datasets.
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CNCF Fund a Bug Bounty Program for Kubernetes
The Kubernetes Product Security Committee has launched a new bug bounty program, funded by the The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), to reward security researchers for finding vulnerabilities in the Kubernetes' codebase, as well as the build and release processes, with bounties ranging from $100 to $10,000.
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Developers Can Now Get Access to Google Glass Enterprise 2
Google has removed restrictions for official third-party resellers to sell Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 directly to developers. Far from opening Google Glass to consumers, this decision aims to make it easier to develop specialized enterprise applications based on Google Glass Enterprise Edition.