Big data and machine learning have emerged as fundamental tools for companies and cities looking to unlock insights into people and places, enabled by the myriad connected devices that now permeate society.
Companies such as PredictHQ leverage data from global events to help companies like Uber and airlines forecast demand, while fellow San Francisco startup Streetlight Data aggregates mobile app…
Intel and Brown University researchers embark on two-year project to bridge spinal cord breaks using AI
October 3, 2019
It’s estimated that over 17,500 new spinal cord injuries occur each year in the U.S., meaning 54 people out of every million Americans experience one. Recovering from those injuries predictably isn’t easy. Patients regain the majority of function within the first six…
In-home cameras that beam footage to cloud storage are inherently more prone to compromise than those that record locally. No matter the encryption scheme at play, there’s always a risk of captured clips taking an unintended detour on their way from a router to the…
Natural language processing (NLP) — the AI subfield dealing with machine reading comprehension — isn’t by any stretch solved, and that’s because syntactic nuances can enormously impact the meaning of a sentence or phrase. Consider the paraphrase pairs “Flights from New York to Florida” and “Flights to Florida from New York,” which convey the same thing. Even state-of-the-art…
Touchscreens and swipe gestures pose a challenge for the roughly 630 million people in the world with a cognitive disability. Executing these tasks requires coordinated motor movements that some with disabilities aren’t reliably able to make. And it usually involves the…
After taking several years between updates to its popular Major headphones, Marshall has announced a new pair just one year after it came out with the Major III. The company’s new Major III Voice Bluetooth headphones add voice control through Google Assistant and a…
Rune has raised $2 million in funding in its effort to use artificial intelligence to help find friends for mobile gamers.
Rune is a Y Combinator accelerator grad, and it was built by two doctoral students who dropped out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Sanjay Guruprasad and Bjarke Felbo. They started their company by asking a simple question: Can AI find you friends?
Users have…
What's on TV this week: 'Mr. Robot'
October 2, 2019
This weekend Mr. Robot returns for its fourth and final season on USA, but it’s not the only thing worth watching. The Walking Dead is back for season number ten, while Netflix presents a new series Raising Dion, as well as new seasons of Big Mouth and Peaky Blinders.
It’s safe to say that Tesla’s self-driving efforts haven’t gone smoothly. It took the better part of a year for Smart Summon to arrive, and there’s not much time left to fulfill goals of full self-driving (on city streets) before the end of 2019.
From Alibaba and Baidu to Google, Facebook, and Microsoft, China and the United States produced virtually every one of the top consumer AI companies in the world today. That leaves Europe trailing behind the U.S. and China, even though Europe still has the largest community of cited AI researchers.
Startup founders, analysts, and organizations seeking to bring ecosystems together for collective…
