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PowerPoint and Skype gain live captions and subtitles
Real-time captions and subtitles are heading to PowerPoint and Skype, the company today revealed in a pair of announcements timed…
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Google’s Inclusive Images Competition spurs development of less biased image classification AI
Bias is a well-established problem in artificial intelligence (AI): models trained on unrepresentative datasets tend to be impartial. It’s a…
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Alibaba’s speech recognition algorithm can isolate voices in noisy crowds
Chinese conglomerate Alibaba is one of the world’s largest ecommerce companies, but increasingly, it’s turning its attention to artificial intelligence…
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Xprize gives an update on $5 million AI competition
Artificial intelligence (AI) can be a force for good — or so asserts XPrize, a nonprofit organization that aims to spark…
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The economics and tradeoffs of ad-funded smart city tech
In order to have innovative smart city applications, cities first need to build out the connected infrastructure, which can be…
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AI Weekly: 6 important machine learning developments from AWS re:Invent
This week in Las Vegas, Amazon rolled out dozens of new features, upgrades, and new products at AWS re:Invent. Here’s…
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Hypergiant Sensory Sciences raises $5 million to track critical infrastructure with AI
Texas entrepreneur Dave Copps has launched Hypergiant Sensory Sciences, which uses AI to help companies understand their physical environments. Copps…
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Volvo and Luminar demo advanced lidar tech that gives autonomous cars detailed view of pedestrian movements
Volvo and and autonomous vehicle sensor company Luminar gave a glimpse into the future of autonomous cars at the Automobility…
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Myth: Consumers are uncomfortable sharing their data
A combination of widespread fake news and massive data breaches has led marketers to believe that consumers are wary of…
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Censys, a search engine for internet-connected devices, raises $2.6 million led by GV and Greylock
Ann Arbor-based cybersecurity startup Censys today announced that it has raised a $2.6 million seed round led by GV and Greylock.…
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