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Parse.ly raises $6.8M to help publishers know their audience
New York-based startup Parse.ly announced today that it has closed a $6.8 million funding round for its analytics platform for publishers. The Series B round was led by existing investors Grotech Ventures and Blumberg Capital, and it also included participation by other previous investors, including Felton Group, FundersClub and DreamIt. This brings Parse.ly’s total funding to $12.85 million. ...
AI pioneer Andrew Ng’s online courses let anyone learn about deep learning
Deep learning is one of today’s hottest trends in the technology industry, but it is a complicated subject for anyone who is not a data scientist or an engineer. Coursera Inc. co-founder Andrew Ng, who is one of the leading pioneers in the ongoing artificial intelligence revolution, wants to make it easier for more people to ...
Converseon raises $5M to make sense of social data using AI
Social media has become a treasure trove of information for a wide range of businesses, but before they can get any value out of all that data, they have to find a way to make sense of it. New York-based startup Converseon Inc. believes that its artificial intelligence platform is the key to understanding social data, ...
New AI can spot anthrax in under one second
Several anthrax attacks in the early 2000s left the public terrified of unidentified white powders, but unfortunately, recognizing anthrax requires both expert knowledge and time. A team of scientists from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology may have found a solution to this problem using artificial intelligence, which they say can save valuable time by spotting ...
UK publishes security guidelines to protect self-driving cars from hackers
The United Kingdom Sunday published a new set of cybersecurity requirements for self-driving cars that encourages automakers to protect connected vehicles from hackers. According to the U.K.’s Department for Transport and the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure, cybersecurity is as vital to connected vehicles as any other safety measures. “Whether we’re turning cars into Wi-Fi ...
Tencent shuts down rogue chatbots for badmouthing China’s government
The Chinese government is not known for taking criticism lightly, which explains why Tencent Holdings Ltd. hastily took down a pair of chatbots that went rogue and started spouting anticommunist rhetoric on its popular messaging app. The two chatbots were named BabyQ and XiaoBing, which were represented by a cute penguin and a little girl, respectively, on ...
Facebook translations now rely entirely on neural networks
With more than 2 billion users, Facebook Inc. has to deal with dozens of different languages on its social network, which poses a bit of a barrier to the company’s new mission to “bring the world closer together.” Facebook hopes that artificial intelligence will be the answer to this problem, and today the company announced ...
Google and MIT develop AI that improves pictures before you even take them
Most camera apps touch up photos after you take them, but Google Inc. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a new machine learning algorithm that makes your pictures better before you even take them. This week at Siggraph, an annual computer graphics conference, researchers from MIT and Google demonstrated a new camera system that uses ...
IBM and Sony squeeze 330 terabytes onto a tiny tape cartridge
One day we may finally reach the limit of how much data we can fit on a physical storage device, but IBM Corp. and Sony Corp. have teamed up to prove that we have not reached that day yet. The two companies revealed today that they have developed the technology to store a record-breaking 330 terabytes of ...
HP announces a more powerful virtual reality backpack aimed at businesses
After teaming up earlier this year to create the Omen X backpack gaming PC that can power a virtual reality headset, HP Inc. and Nvidia Corp. today announced another VR backpack, this time for the enterprise. Mobile VR technology has come a long way in the last few years, but it still does not hold a candle to the power and fidelity ...