Source: iotevolutionworld.com Particle, an IoT platform, has raised $40 million in a series C round of venture capital. The purpose was to make the consumer and enterprise IoT easier for its customers. The company’s investors in this round include Qualcomm and Energy Impact Partners. The platform offers the necessities for customers’ companies to build IoT Read More
Source: bbc.com Or maybe it is just the latest example of the hype getting way ahead of the reality? On this week’s Tech Tent we find out what the big fuss is about something called GPT-3. OpenAI is a Californian company started in 2015 with a high-minded mission – to ensure that artificial general intelligence Read More
Source: pressroom.today The quantum of data generated, stalls the performance of traditional machine learning methods on a standstill, calling for enhanced reinforcement learning models such as deep learning – capable of training large neural networks. Building Deep Learning Neural Networks in Critical Infrastructure (CI): The process of Deep Learning such as classification, detection & localisation Read More
Source: photonics.com WASHINGTON, D.C., July 24, 2020 — Substituting a photonic tensor core for existing digital processors such as GPUs, a pair of engineers from George Washington University (GWU) has introduced a new technique for performing high-level neural network computations. In the approach, light energy replaces electricity, processing optical data feeds at a performance rate two Read More
Source: discovermagazine.com Deep in the bowels of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington DC sits a large metal cabinet the size of a walk-in wardrobe. The cabinet houses a remarkable computer – the front is covered in dials, switches and gauges and inside it is filled with potentiometers controlled by small electric Read More
Source: expresscomputer.in What’s your assessment of the Covid-19 disruption, in terms of the challenges and opportunities for the B2B e-commerce vertical?Covid-19 has proved to be a watershed moment for the online commerce industry. It has brought unprecedented disruption, tested the resiliency of business models and accelerated the pace of digital transformation. Lockdowns did pose a Read More
Source: analyticsinsight.net Robots and robotics, the two ambiguous terms, have gained more traction after the onset of the COVID-19 crisis. From automating the industry chains to monitoring the public crowd, the resourcefulness in the pandemic is undeniable. Before that, robots have already worked in environments or job lines that are deemed hostile or beyond the Read More
Source: analyticsinsight.net Becoming a data scientist is a relatively new career trajectory that merges statistics, business logic, and programming knowledge. Given the exponential amount of data being churned out via our smartphones, desktops, and the vast array of IoT devices throughout the world, governments and private enterprises are interested in gleaning insight from their extensive data collection Read More
Source: moneycontrol.com The fifth generation of wireless connectivity (5G) promises a 50-fold improvement in data speed over what a large majority of us use today. The future is ‘networked’. Long-anticipated opportunities from the Internet such as immersive gaming, augmented-reality product experience, virtual shopping aisles, adoption of self-driving cars and remote robotic precision surgeries will become Read More
Source: sg.channelasia.tech Big Data Exchange (BDX) has officially opened a new data centre in the Paya Lebar area of Singapore, more than three months after acquiring the facility from Telstra. Branded as SIN1, the new facility houses 1,800 racks with a 7.3MW power capacity, holding certificates such as UpTime Tier 3+ Design, SS564 GreenMark Gold Plus, Read More
Source: itproportal.com Automated machine learning (ML) sounds like the stuff of business leaders’ dreams. Take the question, ‘which customers should we focus our marketing budget on this year?’ ML can now deliver robust answers to these types of business questions even faster than before, through greater use of automation. Data in at one end, seriously Read More
Source: enterprisetimes.co.uk A monolithic architecture is one built from a single piece of material; therefore, a monolithic application has a single code base with multiple modules that are divided into business features and technical features. Microservices is an architecture used to separate a monolithic application into several independent services. A microservice application consists of a Read More
Source: palmbeach.floridaweekly.com Florida Atlantic University recently announced that the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, in collaboration with FAU’s Brain Institute, hired Susan Schneider, Ph.D., as William F. Dietrich Chair in Philosophy. Dr. Schneider will bring her experience in analyzing the moral and ethical issues related to artificial intelligence and machine consciousness to Read More
Source: aithority.com Veeam Software, the leader in Backup solutions that deliver Cloud Data Management, announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders quadrant of the 2020 Magic Quadrant for Data Center Backup and Recovery Solutions1. Not only does this mark the fourth time Gartner has recognized Veeam as a category Leader, but it is Read More
Source: labpulse.com A deep-learning system developed at Google outperformed general pathologists for Gleason grading of prostate cancer biopsies, company researchers reported in JAMA Oncology online July 23. The research comes from a deep-learning/artificial intelligence (AI) research team at Google Health in Palo Alto, CA. For the study, performance of the deep-learning system and general pathologists were compared Read More
Source: c4isrnet.com WASHINGTON — The U.S. intelligence community released artificial intelligence principles and an ethics framework on Thursday to ensure that intel organizations are safely and legally developing AI systems as the technology quickly evolves. The long-awaited principles and framework, released in two separate documents by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, are meant Read More
Source: techexplorist.com In industrial settings, robots often are used for tasks that require repetitive grasping and manipulation of objects. Soft robotic grippers and actuators have attracted increasing attention due to safer and more adaptable human-machine and environment-machine interactions than their rigid counterparts. Now, a team of engineers at Michigan State University has designed and developed a novel Read More
Source: hindustantimes.com Whenever we use our smartphone or any other similar gadget, we do something over data. Data is generated enormously with every passing second, just because the number of people using the internet is increasing, as well as the time they spend over the internet is also increasing exponentially. The data that is generated Read More
Source: theprint.in San Francisco: The increasing use of artificial intelligence is going to extract a heavy price in power unless the chip industry steps up and heads that off, according to one of the industry’s biggest companies. Data centers are on course to consume 15% of the world’s electricity by 2025, according to Applied Materials Inc., Read More
Source: healio.com Wikipedia defines artificial intelligence as: In computer science, artificial intelligence, sometimes called machine intelligence, is intelligence demonstrated by machines, unlike the natural intelligence displayed by humans and animals. While AI is usually focused on learning, pattern recognition and problem solving, it can be combined with robotics to perform or assist in the performance Read More
Source: techradar.com It’s safe to say we’ve been distracted for the last few years. While a tumultuous political, social and economic landscape has seized Britain, in the background a technological revolution has been taking place. No longer a futuristic concept, artificial intelligence (AI) is making its way into our lives right now. Self-learning machines are already found Read More
Source: universalnews.org Machine learning is a method that provides IT systems with the ability to learn automated and enhances incidents without being directly programmed. It can also be considered as a data analysis method that automates systematic model development. And we can introduce Machine Learning (ML) into a more familiar word, as an application of Artificial Read More
Source: itnews.iu.edu From decoding genomes to analyzing the contents of thousands of images and videos, artificial intelligence (AI) is redefining research. At Indiana University (IU), the Deep Learning (DL) Resource on Carbonate provides processing power and specialized support for over 100 projects across a wide range of fields that engage the potential of AI. Starting Read More
Source: securityboulevard.com The Age of Big Data has arrived. According to estimates, 90% of the data in the entire world has been generated in just the past two years. The growth will continue to accelerate, as the total installed base of internet of things (IoT)-connected devices is projected to reach 75.44 billion worldwide by 2025—a fivefold increase in Read More
Source: iotevolutionworld.com According to recent releases from both companies, Ordr, a company offering security for unmanaged devices and enterprise Internet of Things (IoT), has entered into an expanded partnership with Check Point Software and made availabile its products on the Check Point Global Price List. Ordr Systems Control Engine (SCE) is designed to automatically discover, Read More
Source: zdnet.com As time-series database provider InfluxData adds the last major piece in its multi-cloud strategy, adding Microsoft Azure, it has entered an OEM agreement to embed its data platform into PTC’s ThingWorx IoT platform. PTC has not announced when the embedded database will be formally available, but we expect it will be sometime during the remainder of this year. Read More
Source: analyticsinsight.net PLEN Robotics Inc. established in July 2017, utilizes Robotics, IT, Artificial Intelligence, to produce IoT solutions that automize and streamline the hospitality industry. The company’s first product offering “PLEN Cube”, is a box-shaped AI assistant that uses face recognition and tracking functions to support cashless payments, hotel receptions, drink orders and digitalization of the customer’s behavior Read More
Source: aithority.com Leading edutech platform Coursera has raised $130 million as part of the Series F funding round. This financing would enable Coursera to bring quality and highly contextual learning material to aspiring professionals in the forward specializations during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Yesterday, NVIDIA and UF announced a strategic alliance to develop AI and Data Science education facilities Read More
Source: dqindia.com While Artificial General Intelligence, or “singularity” as they call it, may be decades away, we have already reached a point where AI can significantly augment our intelligence and help us achieve better outputs at a faster pace. As of today, there is no area where AI has not been proven useful. From playing games to flying airplanes and from detecting cancers to automatically cleaning up selfie-portraits, AI has made its presence felt in all Read More
Source: infoq.com Feature Store is a core part of next generation ML platforms that empowers data scientists to accelerate the delivery of ML applications. It enables the teams to track and share features with versioning enabled and serve features for model training, batch, and real-time predictions. Mike Del Balso from Tecton.ai and Geoff Sims from Atlassian recently spoke at Spark Read More
