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Google will reveal the Pixel 2 phone on Oct. 4
Google Inc. today announced that it will finally reveal its new Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL phones on Oct. 4, and much like the recently revealed iPhone 8 and iPhone X, we already have some pretty good ideas of the new features coming to Google’s flagship phone. The original Pixel, which launched in October 2016, ...
Augment raises $5M to boost customer service with AI
No one likes calling a customer service line, but it can be especially frustrating when the customer service rep puts you on hold multiple times to look up answers that you would expect them to know already. San Francisco-based startup Augment Solution Inc. wants to solve this problem using artificial intelligence. Today, the company emerged from stealth mode ...
Homeland Security bans Kaspersky software amid Russian espionage concerns
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security today ordered government agencies to stop using software made by Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab. Kaspersky, which has been under investigation for several months for alleged espionage activity, had already been removed from the General Services Administration’s list of approved vendors in June. The new Binding Operational Directive from the DHS officially bars ...
Sophia Genetics raises $30M for AI that reads DNA to diagnose illnesses
Healthcare has become a key industry for the ongoing artificial intelligence revolution, and major players such as IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc. all have their own health AI projects. Sophia Genetics may not have the same industry clout as IBM or Google, but the Switzerland-based big-data company is looking to shake up healthcare with ...
The iPhone X was the real star of the big Apple event
Apple Inc. today introduced a new range of iPhones, including a top-of-the-line $999 iPhone X sporting an edge-to-edge “Super Retina” display that looks considerably different from previous iPhones. And that wasn’t all, during a product-packed event in the new Steve Jobs Theater on Apple’s new campus in Cupertino, California. During the event, Apple also announced ...
AI recreates Super Mario Bros. by watching gameplay videos
There are plenty of artificial intelligence agents that have learned to beat video games, but now a team of scientists have taken it one step further by creating an AI that can actually make its own games just by watching someone play them. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology published a new paper called “Game Engine ...
Report: Twitter is testing a feature to make tweetstorms a lot easier
Twitter Inc. may be testing a new feature that will make it easier for users to bombard their followers with long strings of tweets. Matt Navarra, Director of Social Media for The Next Web, tweeted a screenshot on Sunday that showed a secret feature that allows users to send long messages divided into multiple tweets. There have ...
Uber under FBI scrutiny over ‘Hell’ software it used to track Lyft drivers
Uber Technologies Inc. can’t seem to catch a break. The ride-hailing company is already dealing with both its recovery from a high-profile sexual harassment probe and its ongoing legal battle with Waymo, and now it looks like Uber might also be in trouble with the FBI. The Wall Street Journal reports that the FBI has launched a probe into Uber’s “Hell” software, ...
Facebook and Microsoft build open-source project to make neural nets more portable
Facebook Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have teamed up to create an open-source tool that makes it easier for artificial intelligence developers to transfer their projects to different frameworks without having to start over from scratch. The Open Neural Network Exchange, or ONNX, is intended to be a standardized format that will allow deep learning models trained on one framework ...
IBM invests $240M to build a joint AI research lab with MIT
IBM Corp. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced today that they are teaming up to build a new joint research lab aimed at furthering the development of artificial intelligence. Over the next 10 years, IBM says that it will invest $240 million in building the new lab, which will focus on four “pillars” of AI research: AI ...