Bzigo wants to make it easier for you to zap mosquitoes in your home. The U.S. and Israel-based startup combines artificial intelligence with a laser pointer and camera to autonomously track a mosquito inside your home.
Using computer vision, Bzigo detects mosquitoes within minutes from when they enter a room and at a distance of up to 26 feet (eight meters). Upon detection, the system trains a…
IBM launches Advertising Accelerator with Watson to automatically optimize campaigns with AI
January 7, 2020
Marketing and sales departments prioritize AI and machine learning higher than any other in enterprise today. Forbes pegs the percentage at 40%, and it’s no wonder — AI embedded in software is anticipated to free up more than a third of data analytics in marketing…
BlackBerry has debuted a new cybersecurity offering that brings Cylance’s AI-powered protection to the automotive industry, enabling carmakers and fleet operators to automatically verify drivers, address security threats, and issue software patches.
The concept solution…
Intel has Jason Levine, Principal Worldwide Evangelist for Adobe Creative Cloud, and his fabulous head of hair to thank for the most entertaining part of its CES press event. The chipmaker’s executive VP, Gregory Bryant, said he often gets asked why AI and machine learning are important on PC. He then brought Levine on stage to demonstrate the kind of creative experiences Ice Lake’s…
The White House is calling on U.S. lawmakers and businesses, as well as European nations and allies, to avoid overregulation of artificial intelligence. The announcement comes as part of AI regulatory principles introduced today by the Trump administration.
“Europe and our…
Five years ago, the American Red Cross, the British Red Cross, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, and Doctors Without Borders kicked off the Missing Maps project, a humanitarian endeavor that aims to preemptively map parts of the world vulnerable to conflicts, natural…
During a press conference at the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show, Intel gave an update its efforts with respect to its AI and machine learning. The details were a bit hard to come by, but it gave a glimpse at the performance that can be expected from its future Xeon Scalable processor family, codename Cooper Lake.
Cooper Lake, which will be available in the first half of 2020, will deliver up to a…
Akio Toyoda, CEO of Toyota, said that the automotive company plans to build the town of the future on the site of a former car factory in Japan.
Toyota Woven City will combine a wide array of technologies, including robotics, smart homes, autonomous vehicles, the internet of…
Audi’s ‘empathetic’ AI:Me is about relaxing while commuting
January 6, 2020
Commuting is the worst part of driving. It’s a stress-inducing piece of hell that many of us endure on a daily basis. Audi aims to eliminate that stress with a tiny self-driving car that takes you on a virtual journey while you’re sitting in gridlock.
The…
State-of-the-art AI and machine learning algorithms can generate lifelike images of places and objects, but they’re also adept at swapping faces from one person to another — and of spotting sophisticated deepfakes. In a pair of academic papers published by teams at Microsoft Research and Peking University, researchers propose FaceShifter and Face X-Ray, a framework for high-fidelity and…
