Holistic’s open-source tools counter AI development risks

Woman punching illustrating the launch of Holistic AI open-source tools to counter artificial intelligence software development risks and algorithmic bias.

Holistic has unveiled an open-source library to help counter AI development risks and build fairer and more responsible systems.

The library – dubbed Holistic AI OSL – arrives at a crucial moment when organisations are increasingly deploying AI systems across sensitive domains including recruitment, healthcare, and financial services. Recent studies suggest that 65% of AI researchers and developers still consider bias a significant challenge in their work.

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23 October 2024 | Artificial Intelligence

Android’s CameraX library gets dual camera functionality boost

A person wearing two cameras to illustrate Google updating the CameraX library for Android mobile developers with improved dual camera functionality.

Android developers are set to benefit from an update to the CameraX library that improves its Dual Concurrent Camera feature. The enhancement, introduced in the 1.5.0-alpha01 release, simplifies the implementation of simultaneous streaming from two different cameras.

Donovan McMurray, Developer Relations Engineer at Google, wrote in a blog post: "CameraX will now handle the composition of the two camera streams as well."

This expanded functionality builds upon the...

18 October 2024 | Android