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May 7, 2018
At the Microsoft Build developer conference today, Microsoft and Chinese drone manufacturer DJI announced a new partnership that aims to bring more of Microsoft’s machine learning smarts to commercial…
Read articleMay 7, 2018
At its Build developer conference this week, Microsoft is putting a lot of emphasis on artificial intelligence and edge computing. To a large degree, that means bringing many…
Read articleMay 4, 2018
Ever since Google created Kubernetes as an open source container orchestration tool, it has seen it blossom in ways it might never have imagined. As the project gains…
Read articleMay 1, 2018
A couple of years ago I was eagerly expectant of an app that would identify anything you pointed it at. Turns out the problem was much harder than…
Read articleApril 30, 2018
The pond-dwelling Hydra is not a very complex little animal but it does have a complex repertoire of moves that aren’t clear until after extensive human observation. Examining…
Read articleApril 26, 2018
Zurich-based DeepCode claims that their system — essentially a tool for analyzing and improving code — is like Grammarly for programmers. The system, which uses a corpus of…
Read articleApril 18, 2018
What if there’s a drug that already exists that could treat a disease with no known therapies, but we just haven’t made the connection? Finding that connection by…
Read articleApril 10, 2018
Cambridge, U.K.-based startup Spectral Edge has closed a $5.3M Series A funding round from existing investors Parkwalk Advisors and IQ Capital. The team, which in 2014 spun the business out…
Read articleApril 9, 2018
UK startup Juro, which is applying a “design centric approach” and machine learning tech to help businesses speed up the authoring and management of sales contracts, has closed…
Read articleApril 5, 2018
Retro video games have been a useful platform for machine learning research for years, and the systems created have been creeping through the classics, mastering them as they…
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