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Driverless vehicle competition revs-up with Uber’s AI startup acquisition
Uber acquires an AI research startup for self-driving automobiles as it looks to take-on transportation and shipping competition like John D. Rockefeller did over 100 years ago. Uber launched the Uber...
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Can software benefit the PR industry? This Medellin startup already bet on it
In the digitized world nearly every industry has been forced to invest in software development in order to remain competitive, yet the PR industry has been slow to adopt this concept. Public Relations,...
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5 Ways drones are transforming life across the planet
As drones become more advanced and affordable, their applications are spreading like the very wildfires they are now helping to extinguish. Human creativity and desire to innovation irreversibly have...
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Microsoft’s mission to democratize AI must resist temptation for oligarchy
Microsoft aims to democratize AI by investing in Artificial Intelligence startups and partnering with key players, but it must resist the temptation of becoming an oligarchy. Microsoft Ventures...
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Born out of Slack, Yodel grows up to be standalone phone app with bright future
In the world of entrepreneurs, startups are their babies, and Yodel is growing up to be ahead of the customer service class. Bad customer service costs US businesses $62 billion a year – and customers...
View Article5 Facts You Should Know About Machine Learning and AI
Over the years, computer-programming languages have been evolving, but the greatest milestone to date has been the removal of the complicated programming. This has been achieved through a series of...
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Electric Vehicles: Why Aren’t The Options More Diverse?
For many people, electric vehicles are the future. Tesla and a handful of other companies have made great progress in the last few years, and we’re seeing countries across the world install charging...
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Is there nothing that can’t be faked with vocal, facial manipulation?
Between Adobe Voco and Stanford University’s Face2Face technologies, virtually any person dead or alive can be imitated with vocal and facial manipulation. There is a great line from the 1993...
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Is Apple’s research paper on AI a blueprint for mapping human emotions?
Apple’s research paper on Artificial Intelligence (AI) focuses heavily on studying facial and hand expressions, with hints of mapping human emotions. The highly-technical paper entitled “Learning from...
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Amazon wins patent for mothership to launch delivery drones from the sky
Amazon is awarded a patent to develop a flying warehouse that will act like a mothership to launch delivery drones from its base in the sky. Labeled as an Airborne Fulfillment Center (AFC), Amazon’s...
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World’s largest electronics manufacturer may solve human rights violations by...
The world’s largest electronics manufacturer with a reputation for human rights abuses, Foxconn, looks to replace human workers with robots in three phases at its Chinese factories. If you own any...
View ArticleOverdrafts are Hitting Millennials and Minorities Hardest: Tech From Around...
Millennials are earning a lot less money than their parents’ generation and coupled with a much higher cost of living in major cities in the US, young people are having to make an art-form out of...
View Article2016 Saw Huge Improvements in FemTech; Here’s Why
In December of last year 20 million dollars was raised by Ida Tin for a menses-tracking app. Before that, a remote medicine fledgling company called Nurx rounded up over five million dollars for a...
View ArticleFord will link smartphones with touchscreens to allow safe, verbal control
Drivers of Ford 2018 models will be able to sync their smartphones with their in-vehicle touchscreens to give verbal commands while keeping their eyes on the road. In order to combine safety with...
View Article‘AI will represent a paradigm shift in warfare’: WEF predicts an Ender’s...
AI will have a profound impact on the future of warfare, international security, and stability, according to a World Economic Forum Global Risk report. The weaponization of AI will represent a paradigm...
View ArticleTechnology Which Could Save Thousands of Lives on the Road Each Year
FedEx made headlines in 2014, after one of its delivery trucks in Orlando hit a tour bus of students, killing ten people including the driver. The backlash called for improved safety measures on buses...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Acquisition of AI Startup Maluuba is like Hera’s Gift to Pandora
Greek Mythology may provide us with a lesson in curiosity as Microsoft acquires AI startup Maluuba to make machines more curious. Just as Hera, the wife of Zeus, gave Pandora the gift of curiosity, so...
View ArticleTo democratize AI Microsoft CEO warns against tech giant worship, hubris
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warns against hubris and worshiping the major tech giants in the company’s quest to democratize AI. Speaking at the DLD tech conference in Munich, Germany, Mr. Nadella said...
View ArticleSpaceX Internet satellites are a direct threat to price-hiking ISPs
If Elon Musk’s SpaceX succeeds in beaming Internet from space, what will it mean for the future of price-hiking, data capping ISPs and even Mars colonization? SpaceX has a simple mission — to enable...
View ArticleA Swyfft $7.5M investment into big data aims to demystify home insurance
When it comes to home insurance, outdated pricing methodologies and a lack of insight lead to inaccurate pricing that require a big data solution. Homeowners typically spend at least $1,000 a year to...
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