Source: AI robotics startup Covariant recently closed Series B funding with a capital infusion of $40 million. The funding spotlights the needs of autonomous robots in industries like manufacturing, warehousing, supply chain and logistics to streamline tasks. To date, the company has raised $67 million. The latest investment will be used to strengthen product development and scale Read More
Source: intallaght.ie Quetzal-1, the first Guatemalan satellite, developed by students, teachers, researchers, and graduates of the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala (UVG), will be launched into orbit next Tuesday, April 28, at 09:00 a.m. m. (Guatemala time). The CubeSat 1U satellite will be released from the Kibo module of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Read More
Source: calcalistech.com When someone compares his company’s product to the 10 Commandments you know he’s a true believer. “The same way that Moses came down from Mount Sinai with no more than 10 Commandments, we give customers the 10 most relevant services or solutions they are searching for,” was how Yoav Tzuker, Chief Innovation and Read More
Source: networkworld.com If you work in IT, you’re probably safely ensconced at home right now, clinging to your laptop at the edge of your company’s network. The shift from office to home has been momentous. But it’s also symbolic of a larger trend: The network edge has become as important as the network core. Remote Read More
Source: koreatimes.co.kr Artificial intelligence (AI) is ushering in a paradigm shift in the conservative insurance industry, as more market players introduce new sets of time-saving AI-powered platforms to enhance business efficiency. It has been years since AI started appearing in almost all industries due to its usefulness in a wide range of applications and human-like Read More
Source: communalnews.com In the era of Big Data, a data catalog is essential for organizations to give users access to the data they need. But it can be difficult to deploy this important tool if populating the catalog entails a significant amount of manual work. The key to a successful data catalog implementation is the Read More
Source: allaboutcircuits.com To help engineers develop AI systems, MathWorks has added deep learning capabilities to its latest update of MATLAB and Simulink. The update, called R2020A, includes a “Deep Network Designer” app, which is said to help engineers train neural networks. Designers can also manage several deep learning experiments at a time in another app, Experiment Manager. Users will have more Read More
Source: analyticsinsight.net Today machines can teach themselves based upon the results of their own actions. This advancement in Artificial Intelligence seems like a promising technology through which we can explore more innovative potentials of AI. The process is termed as deep reinforcement learning. Deep reinforcement learning, as defined by Bernard Marr, a well-known AI Influencer, is Read More
Source: techwireasia.com Google, like most of the other technology heavyweights, has been contributing towards efforts to manage the impacts of the COVID-19 coronavirus on individuals, governments, and organizations. Besides making some of its technology freely available and collaborating with the likes of Apple and Amazon to help the US government track the spread of the virus, Google Cloud AI– Read More
Source: which-50.com Before businesses implement data analytics into their businesses they first need to understand the challenges ahead of them. In a recently released NEC report, Taming Your Data Assets and Delivering Real Business Outcomes, it highlights a number of roadblocks companies need to identify and understand. These include, The sheer volume and variety of Read More
Source: ft.com The age of artificial intelligence (AI) was widely proclaimed in 2017 when Google’s AlphaGo program comprehensively defeated Ke Jie, world champion player of Go, the complex Chinese board game. Since then the excitement has ebbed as Washington and Beijing fought a trade war, and China’s start-up funding dipped in part because the original Read More
Source: fool.com On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the latest jobs numbers, and they weren’t pretty. Nonfarm payrolls fell by 20.5 million in April, and the U.S. unemployment rate has now soared to 14.7%. However, one silver lining is that many of those laid off expect to eventually return to their previous jobs. Read More
Source: By getting inspired by the biomechanics of cheetahs, scientists at North Carolina State University have developed the fastest ever soft robot that can move quickly on concrete surfaces or in the water than previous generations of soft robots. What’s more, it can delicately grab objects or with sufficient strength to lift heavy objects. The robot is Read More
Source: screenrant.com Ex Machina, written and directed by science-fiction extraordinaire Alex Garland, is a mind-bending tale of the pitfalls of artificial intelligence and the arrogance of tech developers. The film’s ending presents a bevy of questions regarding the hypothetical relationship between androids and humans, but an alternate ending reveals more about these ideas. Originally, audiences would have experienced how Read More
Source: telanganatoday.com Hyderabad: The economic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented crisis in journalism that could decimate media organisations around the world. The future of journalism and its survival could lie in artificial intelligence (AI). Francesco Marconi, a professor of Journalism at Columbia University in New York, published a book on the Read More
Source: analyticsindiamag.com Udacity and AWS collaborated to offer scholarships called AWS Machine Learning Scholarship Program for data science enthusiasts who want to upskill. The scholarship has two phases and is open for aspirants above 18 years of age. The enrollment for the course will be opened from May 19 till July 31. Besides, the scholarship is divided Read More
Source: thehindu.com Google has launched a free training course in 17 languages to teach journalists around the world what impact can Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) have on their profession. In a global survey conducted by Google last year about the use of AI by news organisations, most respondents highlighted the urgent need Read More
Source: virtualizationreview.com Israel-based Run:AI, specializing in virtualizing artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, claimed an industry first in announcing a fractional GPU sharing system for deep learning workloads on Kubernetes. The company offers a namesake Run:AI platform built on top of Kubernetes to virtualize AI infrastructure in order to improve on the typical bare-metal approach that statically provisions AI Read More
Source: venturebeat.com In a technical paper published on Arxiv.org this week, researchers at Facebook and Arizona State University lifted the hood on AutoScale, which shares a name with Facebook’s energy-sensitive load balancer. AutoScale, which could theoretically be used by any company were the code to be made publicly available, leverages AI to enable energy-efficient inference on smartphones and other edge Read More
Source: bbntimes.com Industries across the globe are using applications of data mining to gain insights from a huge volume of data and improve the efficiency and accuracy of their businesses. Data mining is an interdisciplinary field of computer science and statistics that can find patterns in large data sets. Its overall goal is to extract Read More
Source: analyticsinsight.net Data, today, fuels every small, medium, big company, industries, and economies across the globe. Its growing relevance in the tech market has gained momentum and the technology is already disrupting several verticals. However, with growing data and its accelerating processing, the responsibility of its privacy has also surged among data solution providers and Read More
Source: forbes.com Five years ago, the words “artificial intelligence” and “machine learning” were on everyone’s lips. Today, these technologies form a core part of how companies do business. Because technology is ever-evolving, there will always be new tech emerging on the horizon. However, the past has shown us that not every emerging technology can remain Read More
Source: analyticsindiamag.com Data science internships provide opportunities to learn from the pros, gain practical experience and build a strong professional network. But, getting a data science internship is not straightforward, you need to showcase your expertise and enthusiasm to work for the company. Firstly, one would require a strong foundation of data science concepts. Then Read More
Source: zdnet.com One of the big regulatory hurdles to the commercial adoption of drones — the kind that fly as well as the kind that roll down sidewalks and may one day deliver you a pizza — is collision safety. A small handful of safety incidents could have major consequences for adoption, and many regulatory bodies are loath to Read More
Source: infoworld.com Spell, an end-to-end platform for machine learning and deep learning—covering data prep, training, deployment, and management—has announced Spell for Private Machines, a new version of its system that can be deployed on your own hardware as well as on cloud resources. Spell was founded by Serkan Piantino, former director of engineering at Facebook and founder of Read More
Source: itnews.com.au Telstra is running deep learning algorithms over its Networks data to predict equipment failures before they occur and to find ways to address voice and SMS scams. Data science (Networks) team manager Tim Osborne revealed the project, which is codenamed Telstra AI Lab or TAIL, in a presentation to IBM’s Think 2020 conference Read More
Source: analyticsindiamag.com One of the popular AI research labs, OpenAI has been working tremendously in the domain of artificial intelligence, particularly on the grounds of neural networks, reinforcement learning, among others. Just a few days back, the AI lab introduced Microscope for AI enthusiasts who are interested in exploring how neural network work. And now the audio team of OpenAI Read More
Source: apmg-international.com Still in lockdown Week seven of the lockdown and the only immediate future I can think of is “when the heck are we likely to get back to some form of normal life?” Prospects do not look great for anytime soon! So, I will console myself with thinking further ahead. Actually, when you Read More
Source: cdotrends.com The National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School has launched a new research center called the Centre on AI Technology for Humankind (AiTH). Founded and headed by Professor David De Cremer, Provost’s Chair in the Department of Management and Organisation at NUS Business School, AiTH aims to promote a human-centered mindset in the Read More
Source: searchbusinessanalytics.techtarget.com Whether you’re newly entering the workforce, have been recently laid off, are worried about keeping your current job or have been temporarily furloughed and have some time on your hands, there’s no better time to pick up some AI-related skills than right now. According to LinkedIn, artificial intelligence and machine learning jobs have grown 74% Read More
