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August 22, 2017
This afternoon Microsoft announced Brainwave, an FPGA-based system for ultra-low latency deep learning in the cloud. Early benchmarking indicates that when using Intel Stratix 10 FPGAs, Brainwave can…
Read articleAugust 22, 2017
Samsung’s Bixby voice assistant is now global after it expanded into over 200 countries today. Bixby is Samsung’s answer to Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa and other virtual assistants.…
Read articleAugust 21, 2017
Despite countless attempts and millions in venture capital, the calendar, one of the most ubiquitous work tools, has remained largely unchanged for as long as I can remember.…
Read articleAugust 19, 2017
The startup behind the Prisma style transfer app is shifting focus onto the b2b space, building tools for developers that draw on its expertise using neural networks and…
Read articleAugust 14, 2017
Poncho, the betaworks-backed weather service, has raised $2.4 million in seed funding led by Lightspeed Ventures. Poncho launched out of betaworks the same year as Giphy and Dots,…
Read articleAugust 12, 2017
Last night, OpenAI’s Dota 2 bot beat the world’s most celebrated professional players in one-on-one battles, showing just how advanced these machine learning systems are getting. The bot…
Read articleAugust 11, 2017
U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis is concluding his tech tour of the West Coast today with a visit to Google’s Mountain View campus. Mattis spent time at Amazon and…
Read articleAugust 10, 2017
There are a million and one services for voice transcription on the market. But even with just one job to do, I’ve never seen a service that can…
Read articleAugust 9, 2017
Starcraft II has been a target for Alphabet’s DeepMind AI research for a while now – the UK AI company took on Blizzard’s sci-fi strategy game starting last…
Read articleAugust 8, 2017
Brands have long been able to search for company mentions on social media, but they’ve lacked the ability to search for pictures of their logos or products in…
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