{"id":234724,"date":"2017-10-26T10:17:02","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T08:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=234724"},"modified":"2017-10-26T10:19:55","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T08:19:55","slug":"android-8-1-beta-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/234724-android-8-1-beta-launched.html","title":{"rendered":"Android 8.1 beta launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has launched the <a href=\"https:\/\/android-developers.googleblog.com\/2017\/10\/android-81-developer-preview.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>developer beta<\/strong><\/a> of Android 8.1 &#8220;Oreo&#8221;, which features its new Neural Networks API.<\/p>\n<p>The API brings hardware-accelerated execution of machine learning models that have already been trained.<\/p>\n<p>According to Google, the Neural Networks API was designed as a foundation layer for frameworks like TensorFlow Lite and Caffe2.<\/p>\n<p>The Android 8.1 developer preview also updates Autofill, making it easier\u00a0for password managers to use the framework.<\/p>\n<p>While the Android 8.1 beta is available to developers, it won&#8217;t launch for users until December.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/228421-how-neural-networks-think.html\">How neural networks think<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has launched the developer beta of Android 8.1 &#8220;Oreo&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":225973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934],"tags":[45545,46904,167],"class_list":["post-234724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","tag-android-8-oreo","tag-android-8-1","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234724"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234736,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234724\/revisions\/234736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}