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Meeshkan, a Finnish startup that made quite a splash at the recent Slush conference, has quietly raised €370,000 in pre-seed funding to continue developing its “ChatOps” product for machine learning developers. Deployed on Slack, the bot…

The AI Index 2018 report is out, and if you’re interested in AI enough to read this newsletter, you really should read the report through for yourself. Maybe it’s the nerdy thing you do when lounging with family this holiday season, or…

Today marks the kickoff for Microsoft Connect(); 2018, Microsoft’s annual cloud- and data-focused developer conference, and the Seattle company wasted no time getting down to business. It announced the general availability of Azure Machine…

Putting on clothes is a daily, mundane task that most of us perform with little or no thought. We may never take into consideration the multiple steps and physical motions involved when we’re getting dressed in the mornings. But that…

Although Black Friday traditionally evokes images of mayhem as consumers run wild in brick and mortar outlets, this may be changing. In a survey released a few days ago, 80 percent of UK consumers said they plan to avoid stores on…

Thirty years ago, a PhD student named Lin Yang at the University of California at Berkeley had an idea for a special kind of chip that would speed up computations for artificial intelligence. Think of it as a three-decade head start.…

Machine learning has moved into the realms of everyday life and occupies center stage in influencing every aspect of business and individual’s decision-making process today. The technology is growing exponentially along with its…

Say No to Terrorism For years, content that promotes terrorism has thrived on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter. Fighting it is an uphill battle that has forced tech companies to open war rooms and hire new specialists. One…

The selection of a first-line chemotherapy drug to treat many types of cancer is often a clear-cut decision governed by standard-of-care protocols, but what drug should be used next if the first one fails? That’s where Georgia Institute of…

Redundancy is a hugely important part of a good backup regime. You never want a single point of failure, a lynchpin that can bring down the whole system. By incorporating multiple hard drives into your routine, you’ll be able to preserve…