AT&T will roll out network technology to help 5G battery life | Light reading

5G devices have long suffered from relatively poor battery life compared to 4G and 3G gadgets. The situation was important enough for iPhone maker Apple to install a setting within its iOS operating system that allows users to funnel their traffic from 5G to preserve phone battery life. iPhone screen More recently, network monitoring firm … Read more

Network, IAM, and cloud are the top 3 cybersecurity spending priorities for 2023

Go to our on-demand library to view VB Transform 2023 sessions. Register here Attackers are so relentless in innovating new breach techniques that cyber defenses deployed in 2022 have already weakened, with even more serious attacks arriving in 2024. Most cybersecurity leaders (71%) say that their organizations have experienced three or more security incidents in … Read more

New AI research proposes VanillaNet: a new neural network architecture that emphasizes elegance and simplicity of design while maintaining remarkable performance in computer vision tasks

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.12972 Artificial neural networks have advanced significantly in recent decades, driven by the idea that greater network complexity translates into better performance. These networks can perform a variety of human-like tasks, including facial recognition, speech recognition, object identification, natural language processing, and content synthesis, which include several layers and many neurons or processing blocks. Modern … Read more

Comcast expands broadband network in Hampton County

Comcast is working to connect more than 600 underserved homes and businesses in Hampton County, South Carolina by October 1. The network expansion will provide households and businesses of all sizes with access to the Xfinity 10G network. Today’s announcement follows Comcast’s initial entry into the market last year, when the company connected more than … Read more

Researchers from ETH Zurich and Microsoft present LightGlue: a deep neural network that learns to match local features in images

https://github.com/cvg/LightGlue Matching corresponding points between images is critical for many computer vision applications, such as camera tracking and 3D mapping. The conventional approach is to use scattered points of interest and high-dimensional representations to match them based on their visual appearance. However, accurately describing each problem becomes difficult in scenarios with symmetry, weak textures, or … Read more