Mark Zuckerberg on why the world needs Facebook and the ‘Fifth Estate’

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In a speech today, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg defended false political ads and talked about why Facebook shouldn't be broken into separate companies.

Bosch’s new ‘ear’ for the Space Station’s Astrobee robot will let it ‘hear’ potential mechanical issues

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Bosch is set to launch a new AI-based sensor system to the International Space Station that could change the way astronauts and ground crew monitor the ISS’s continued healthy operation. The so-called “SoundSee” module will be roughly the size of a lunch box, and will make its way…

Google taps evolution for state-of-the-art AI video understanding models

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Video understanding is an AI subfield that not only underpins systems capable of sussing out semantics automatically, like web-video classifiers and sport activity recognizers, but that’s at the cornerstone of robot perception and navigation systems. Unfortunately, devising machine learning models that take advantage of videos’ spatio-temporal information isn’t easy, nor is identifying those that aren’t …

FlightHub and tech working together to improve the customer experience

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In 2020, FlightHub and JustFly will launch “LUCY”, an intelligent assistant dedicated to online customer service and improving the customer experience.

Better fact-checking for fake news

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New research reveals biases in fake news datasets and improves the use of automatic detectors.

Work management platform Asana launches new automation tools

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Work management platform Asana today announced the launch of a new feature that will take the work out of some of the most mundane and repetitive tasks on its platform. Asana Automation, as the new feature is called, allows users to create their own “if this then that” rules, but also f…

Corelight raises $50 million to monitor networks for intruders

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Corelight, a startup developing cybersecurity solutions atop the open source Zeek project, has raised $50 million in venture capital.

Yandex’s self-driving cars have driven 1 million miles

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Russian tech giant Yandex revealed that its autonomous car fleet has driven a collective 1 million miles without humans behind the wheel.

Asana launches automation tools, including a rules builder to sidestep repetitive tasks

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Team and task management platform Asana is introducing a suite of new tools to help businesses automate repetitive processes.

Invoca raises $56 million to apply AI and analytics to voice calls

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Invoca, which provides business tools that apply AI and analytics to voice calls, has raised $56 million in a funding round.

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Ubuntu 19.10 arrives with edge capabilities for Kubernetes, integrated AI developer experience

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Following 25 weeks of development, Canonical today released Ubuntu 19.10. Highlights include new edge capabilities for Kubernetes, an integrated AI developer experience, and the fastest GNOME desktop performance yet. You can download Ubuntu 19.10 from here. Kubernetes (stylized as k8s) was originally designed by Google and is now maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation …

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Skydio 2 Dock enables autonomous factory, warehouse, and industrial operations

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Skydio 2 Dock, an accessory for the recently announced Skydio 2, aims to enable persistent operations in enterprise domains.

Microsoft’s UniLM AI achieves state-of-the-art performance on summarization and language generation

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In a new paper, Microsoft researchers propose UniLM, an AI framework that achieves state-of-the-art results on summarization and language generation tasks.

In the Accelerator over the Sea

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In our oceans the scale of disasters is measured in millions, billions, and trillions, while solutions amount to single digits: individuals or institutions working to impact a chosen issue with approaches often both brilliant and quixotic. Putting such individuals in close contact with both whales …

Pod is a new social network that wants you to meet in person

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Pod is a new social network for Android and iOS designed to help its members meet offline, instead of just connecting online.

Facebook’s ReAgent is a toolkit for reinforcement learning and reasoning AI

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Facebook today announced the release of ReAgent, a toolkit that can evaluate, create, and deploy decision-making AI systems in production.

Apply now to speak at Transform 2020, the premiere AI event for business leaders

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Transform is the most important AI event of the year for business and technical leaders, and it’s earned that reputation because of the caliber of speakers.

Pensando Systems raises $145 million for custom hardware that processes data at the edge

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Networking startup Pensando Systems has emerged from stealth with over $145 million for its custom software-defined edge services platform.

Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global is buying a startup that uses neuroscience to boost app usage

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When Arianna Huffington stepped down from her role at the Huffington Post to start Thrive Global, she said the goal of her new business was to help a generation “avoid the burnout that all too often comes with success today.” In practice, that has meant creating a business that sells mi…

Quantemplate raises over $12 million for AI insurance and reinsurance data solutions

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Quantemplate, a startup developing AI data solutions tools for insurers and reinsurers, has raised over $12 million in venture capital.

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Everything announced at the Made by Google 2019 event

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From Pixel phones and Pixelbooks, to earbuds and routers, here's a recap of everything announced at the 2019 Made by Google event.

Databricks brings its Delta Lake project to the Linux Foundation

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Databricks, the big data analytics service founded by the original developers of Apache Spark, today announced that it is bringing its Delta Lake open-source project for building data lakes to the Linux Foundation and under an open governance model. The company announced the launch of Delta Lake ea…

Healx raises $56 million to combat rare diseases with AI

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Healx, a startup that's using artificial intelligence to expedite drug discovery for rare diseases, has raised $56 million in a funding round led by Atomico.

Recovering “lost dimensions” of images and video

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Model could recreate video from motion-blurred images and “corner cameras,” may someday retrieve 3D data from 2D medical images.

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Mira marries NLP with computer vision to create a rich, search-powered shopping experience

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Although it bills itself as a "beauty search engine," the AI technology underpinning Mira's platform is applicable to many rich online shopping experiences.

Google’s Pixelbook Go team focused on fixing bugs instead of adding features

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The Pixelbook Go doesn't have much in the way of new features, but it packs improved Android app compatibility and better Bluetooth.

Google roasts Apple on computational photography: ‘It’s not mad science’

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Did you catch the surprising but subtle moment in Made by Google '19 when a Pixel camera researcher discussed the physics behind computational photography?

Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL specs: What Google changed

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A specs comparison of Google's Pixel 3 versus Pixel 4 as well as Pixel 3 XL versus Pixel 4 XL, including price, dimensions, features, and cameras.

Watch OpenAI’s ‘human-like’ robot solve a Rubik’s Cube one-handed

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There’s always been something so annoying about people who found the need to stack additional challenges onto solving a Rubik’s Cube quickly, whether it was doing it blind-folded or while juggling or one-handed. While it might have just been a challenge for them, it also seemed like a n…

Zoom rolls out AI-powered transcripts, note-taking features, and more

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Zoom today announced a slew of new features heading to its conferencing solution platform, including real-time transcripts powered by Otter.

OpenAI teaches a robotic hand to solve a Rubik’s cube

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OpenAI has developed an AI model, trained with a novel method, to effectively "teach" a robotic hand how to solve a Rubik's cube.

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Next-gen Google Assistant works in near real-time, offers speech transcription

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Google Assistant with Pixel 4 comes with near real-time responses to queries, automatically transcribe voice recordings, and engage in multi-turn exhanges.

Google debuts Nest Mini with wall mount and dedicated ML chip

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The latest version of Google's Nest Mini comes with a wall mount so you can put it anywhere you want and dedicated chip for machine learning.

Google unveils the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL with gesture recognition and dual rear cameras

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Google took the wraps off of the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL at a hardware event in New York City. Here's everything you need to know.

Google unveils Nest Wifi Router and Nest Wifi Point with Google Assistant built in

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Google's Nest Wifi Router and Nest Wifi Point, which repalce Google Wifi, are a mesh router and beacon set fully compatible with Google Assistant.

Pixel Buds with hands-free Google Assistant will arrive in 2020

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Google's latest version of Pixel Buds come with a dedicated chip for on-device machine learning and long range Bluetooth.

Google’s Pixelbook Go has a 4K screen and twin far-field microphones

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At an event in New York City, Google announced the Pixelbook Go, the successor to the circa-2017 that substantially improves upon the original.

Pinterest bucks ‘black box’ social media trend with greater user controls

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Pinterest's new controls are designed to give users greater insight into which activities inform the recommendations that appear in their feeds.

MIT CSAIL fights fake news with AI

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In a pair of studies published out of MIT's CSAIL, researchers investigated the challenges associated with detecting fake news and false statements.

CleverTap raises $35 million for AI that tracks and builds customer engagement

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CleverTap, a startup developing cloud-based customer management and engagement tracking tools, has raised $35 million in funding.

Gita is a $3,250 personal cargo robot that follows you around

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Vespa maker Piaggio has officially launched Gita, a $3,250 personal cargo robot that follows you around with all your stuff.

How causal inference is helping companies innovate and grow

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Companies are making use of causal inference in two key scenarios: the planning side and the impact assessment side of their business.

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Moral Machine is learning how we want self-driving cars to kill

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Moral Machine measures socal responses to decisions faced by self-driving cars. While the data is intriguing, forging ethical consensus remains elusive.

UiPath acquires ProcessGold and StepShot to help businesses identify RPA opportunities

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UiPath today acquired StepShot and ProcessGold to beef up tech for identifying process automation, part of an overhaul of its RPA platform.

Facebook Portal review: WhatsApp integration needs work

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Review In recent weeks, Facebook’s Portal unit rolled out a number of new devices and features. Facebook’s video chat device is coming to the workplace, and Portal TV for watching video with friends during video calls is due out next month. And today, Facebook begins to ship the Portal Mini and second-generation Portal smart display for $129 …

How to watch the Made by Google 2019 stream

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It’s that time of year again. Google’s Made by Google 2019 event kicks off at 10 a.m. Eastern (7 a.m. Pacific) today in the heart of New York City, marking only the second time the company’s hosted a product briefing of this scale outside of the Bay Area. And thanks to countless leaks, it looks …

Square Off launches Kickstarter campaign for AI-based connected chess boards

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Square Off is moving connected board games further today with the launch of a Kickstarter campaign for its Square Off Neo and the Square Off SwapBoard.

Level Home raises $71 million from Walmart to imbue locks with connected smarts

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Level Home, a Redwood City-based startup backed by Google and Walmart, is developing products that imbue traditional locks with internet-connected smarts.

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Google’s AI explains how image classifiers made their decisions

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Google and Stanford researchers detail in a new paper an AI model that explains how image classifiers made their decisions.