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Facebook launches Messenger Kids, a chat app for children
Like many online companies, Facebook Inc. has had a longstanding rule forbidding children under 13 from having their own accounts. Today the social media giant took a step away from that restriction with the launch of Messenger Kids, a standalone chat app specifically designed for young kids. “Whether it’s using video chat to talk to grandparents, staying in touch with ...
General Motors will launch its own self-driving taxi service in 2019
General Motors Co. is one of many auto companies interested in the future of self-driving cars, and today the 109-year-old car maker announced that it plans to launch its own autonomous taxi service in 2019, going head to head with similar projects being developed by traditional rivals such as Ford Motor Co. and new competitors such as Alphabet ...
Apple helps doctors study heart health with new Apple Watch app
Apple Inc. joined the healthcare industry today with the launch the new Apple Health Study app for the Apple Watch, which gathers heart rate data for a medical study conducted by Stanford University. First announced at Apple’s big press event in September, the new app passively monitors users’ heart rhythms and heart rates for signs of atrial fibrillation or ...
Apple countersuit says Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips violate its patents
The ongoing legal spat between Apple Inc. and chip maker Qualcomm Technologies Inc. just got even more complicated, as Apple filed a new countersuit today claiming that the Snapdragon processors that power many Android devices infringe on Apple’s patents. Reuters reported that Qualcomm filed a lawsuit against Apple in July, claiming that some of Apple’s devices illegally ...
Terbium Labs raises $6M for its AI that watches the dark web for stolen data
Terbium Labs, a Baltimore-based security startup that monitors the dark web for stolen data, announced today that it has raised $6 million in funding round led by Glasswing Ventures, bringing total funding to $15 million. Every business likes to believe that its cybersecurity systems are unbreachable and that its customers’ data will always be safe, but companies like Target ...
Judge delays Uber-Waymo trial again, ‘can no longer trust’ what Uber says
It looks like Uber Technologies Inc. may have another rough year ahead of it. A federal judge decided today to once delay Uber’s trial with Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo again, giving Waymo’s lawyers time to new evidence suggesting that Uber trained its employees to steal trade secrets. Waymo first accused Uber of stealing key parts of its self-driving car tech in February, and Waymo originally sought up ...
Waymo’s self-driving cars have traveled 4 million miles on public roads
Waymo LLC, Alphabet Inc.’s self-driving car division, has been testing its vehicles on public roads for a few years, and this week the company announced that its cars have already traveled more than 4 million miles. Waymo began as an internal project at Google LLC in 2009, and in 2012 one of its vehicles became the first ...
Here’s how Facebook is using AI to help suicidal users
Facebook Inc. announced in March that it was exploring ways to use artificial intelligence to help suicidal users, and today the social network revealed several ways that it has been using its AI to prevent suicides. Guy Rosen, vice president of product management at Facebook, said in a statement that it’s important to spot signs ...
Google DeepMind is helping neural nets decide how they want to learn
There is no one teaching style that works perfectly for every student, and it turns out that the same can be said for neural networks, the computing systems that power many of today’s smartest artificial intelligence programs. Enterprises can waste a lot of time and money if they pick the wrong way to train their neural nets, but DeepMind Technologies ...
Google DeepMind announces new research partnership to fight breast cancer with AI
When it is not playing videos games or conquering the world of Go, DeepMind Technologies Ltd. puts many of its machine learning resources toward improving healthcare, and today the Alphabet Inc.-owned company announced a new research partnership to fight breast cancer using artificial intelligence. As part of the new partnership, DeepMind will be teaming with a group of ...