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Google to boost Cuba’s Internet speed with local servers
Alphabet Inc.’s Google has hastily completed a new deal with Cuba’s state-run telecom that will bring high-speed Internet servers to the island nation. According to Google, the deal will greatly improve speeds for many of Cuba’s Internet users, particularly for Google’s services. “Google and Cuba’s national telecom provider ETECSA have signed an agreement to deploy ...
Amazon’s Twitch chat gets nicer with AI-powered moderation
Amazon.com Inc.-owned livestreaming platform Twitch announced today that it will be introducing a new moderation tool called AutoMod, which combines machine learning and natural language processing to make Twitch chat a little bit nicer. Like most online communities, Twitch deals with its share of toxic users. Popular streamers often must appoint moderators from their communities to deal with ...
AMD chases after Nvidia with graphics chips for machine learning
When it comes to high-end computer graphics, Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. have been the Coke and Pepsi of the industry for more than a decade, though the gap between the two has widened in recent years thanks in part to Nvidia’s rapid expansion into machine learning. Now AMD is trying to play ...
Magic Leap reportedly struggling to live up to hype for its augmented reality platform
Florida-based startup Magic Leap Inc. has built up a lot of hype around its mysterious augmented reality platform — about $4.5 billion in hype actually. But so far we have only seen a few demo videos offering a brief glimpse of what the tech will supposedly be able to do. Now, it turns out that some of those ...
Slack forms partnership with Google for native Drive support
Hot on the heels of Facebook Inc.’s announcement about app integrations for Workplace, Slack Technologies Inc. announced today that it has formed a partnership with Google Inc. to bring native Google Drive support to Slack. “Turns out many of you love using Slack and Google together — so much so that millions of Google Drive files are ...
Facebook Workplace gets serious about enterprise with custom app integrations
If Slack was not worried about Facebook Workplace before, it definitely should be now. Facebook Inc. announced today that its enterprise-focused communication tool will now allow third-party apps to be integrated into it. Workplace’s new “custom integrations” allows businesses to tie Facebook’s platform directly to in-house or third-party tools, enabling a numbers of new functions. A ...
Google’s DeepMind open-sources its 3D AI training platform
DeepMind, the Google Inc.-owned machine learning firm behind AlphaGo, has announced that it is open-sourcing DeepMind Lab, a gamelike platform aimed at training artificial intelligences to navigate and interact with 3D environments. According to DeepMind, the training framework’s 3D environment is better for developing AI agents because it more closely resembles the real world, which is ...
Facebook looks to AI to solve its fake news problem
A few weeks ago, Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg downplayed complaints about fake news on Facebook, claiming that “more than 99 percent of what people see is authentic.” Now it seems that Facebook is taking those complaints a little more seriously. Company executives outlined some of the social network’s plans for dealing with fake news ...
Reuters algorithm tracks and sources breaking news on Twitter
International news organization Reuters revealed this week that it has been working on its own algorithm to catch breaking news on Twitter, giving journalists detailed alerts as events unfold. According to Reg Chua, executive editor for data and innovation at Reuters, the algorithm makes life easier for journalists who are always racing to be first. “A large ...
Adblock Plus still legal in Germany — for now
Adblock Plus will be safe for another day in Germany, as Eyeo GmbH, the company behind the ad-blocking browser extension, has won its sixth court case against a publisher that tried to shut it down. This time, Eyeo’s opponent was Spiegel Online, which is the online counterpart to Der Spiegel, one of the largest news ...
