Taking a photo in poor lighting can often result in something too pixelated and noisy to be useful. Advanced software processing on some phones and cameras can fix moderate noise, but a new project from Nvidia, MIT, and Aalto University uses AI to correct for extreme levels of noise. Even if the “Noise2Noise” system has never seen an image before, it can . Noise2Noise is a , which means you need to train it with lots of data. The team used 50,000 images from the ImageNet database, which contains clear, high-resolution images. Of course, the network needs to see noisy images in order to understand how to de-noise them.
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Detroit, the granddaddy of all North American auto shows, the self-proclaimed most important auto show, is about to shift its annual time slot from the dead of winter to late spring. Motown’s crappy weather plus competition from CES made it necessary. That’s according to reports in the Detroit and Detroit . The North American International Auto Show (), as Detroit is called, will run as scheduled Jan. 14-27, 2018, then in 2020 shift to a June date. It’s expected there would be more outdoor events than in the past. (Actually, it’d be hard for there to be fewer.)
As the fall draws closer, analysts have turned their attention to Apple’s product lines and expected upcoming refreshes. The overall expectation is that the company will introduce multiple new handsets — we’ve heard talk of three models — and be sunsetting others. Overall, some trim is definitely due. Right now, Apple sells the iPhone SE, 6s and 6s Plus, 7 and 7 Plus, 8 and 8 Plus, and the iPhone X. If this were Samsung, such a lineup would constitute the number of Galaxy sub-brands it sells in one specific country, not the entirety of its product line. But for Apple, this is actually quite a few phones, and the company is pretty likely to downsize.
A little over two years ago, AMD announced that it had formed a new joint venture with THATIC (Tianjin Haiguang Advanced Technology Investment Co., Ltd) to build custom SoCs for the Chinese server market. The deal was instrumental in keeping AMD cash-positive at the time. AMD had lost $660M in 2015 and $497M in 2016, and the cash and licensing revenue from the deal helped keep the lights on while the firm worked to finish Ryzen. Now, the fruits of that labor are finally hitting the market. The Chinese company Hygon has begun shipping new “Dhyana” x86 CPUs based on AMD IP.
ARM has been making a splash in the HPC world lately, thanks to new efforts from companies like Fujitsu and HPE. Now, Samsung has jumped on board with its own announcements about a long-term partnership to extend ARM manufacturing capabilities into 7nm and 5nm nodes. Samsung claims its 7nm LPP (Low Power Plus) and 5nm LPE (Low Power Early) will enable ARM’s Cortex-A76 to hit clock speeds in excess of 3GHz. , Samsung also gave an update on its own foundry nodes and rollout progress. The company will begin rolling out 7nm LPP in the back half of this year, but won’t actually start using EUV until the first half of 2019.
A new paper suggests that Uranus might still contain evidence of the catastrophic impact that knocked it on to its side and shaped much of its evolutionary history. If it’s accurate, there are some incredibly exciting discoveries lurking within the ice giant’s mantle. If we held a competition for weirdest planet in the solar system, Uranus would easily win. Not only does it orbit in retrograde (a characteristic it shares with Venus), its orbital inclination is 98 degrees. This means it orbits essentially on its side, with its north and south poles approximately where its equator should be. It also radiates very little heat.
HTC partnered with Google to launch the Android platform, but it has struggled to remain relevant in the face of ever-increasing competition from the likes of Samsung, Huawei, and Apple. The company has been losing money quarter after quarter for years, but this may be the beginning of the end. After releasing its latest flagship phone, HTC’s sales fell by the largest margin yet. According to HTC’s latest numbers, it (2.2 billion Taiwanese dollars) during June. That compares to $226.5 million (6.9 billion Taiwanese dollars) in June of 2017. This is . Sales were even a few million lower than they were in May, suggesting an ongoing downward trend.
There’s a lot of totally understandable excitement in the scientific community around exploring the Jovian moon Europa. With NASA planning to launch two multi-billion dollar missions to Europa, some scientists are pointing out that a much more tempting target is . Saturn’s moon Enceladus has many of the same properties as Europa, and our greater knowledge of this moon could make it easier to detect life. Europa entered the public consciousness thanks to the revelation that it most likely has a subsurface liquid ocean under the ice sheet. Tidal forces from Jupiter’s massive gravity keep the planet’s interior warm enough for the sea to remain in this state, but we don’t know much more.
