IDnow has raised $40 million in venture capital as the Munich-based company expands its visual verification platform designed to speed online transactions.
Founded in 2014, the company makes a cloud-based authentication service that partners can integrate into their own products. Customers can take a selfie using their mobile phones, and the algorithms driving IDnow can match it against a wide…
How AI is impacting the automotive world
October 28, 2019
Presented by Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
The idea of self-driving cars has captured consumer imagination, but AI is having a much broader impact across the entire automotive industry. From design, manufacturing, and infrastructure to predictive maintenance, safety, and a…
Google Assistant is ready to find your Tile tracker
October 27, 2019
As promised, Google Assistant can now help find your Tile trackers with very little effort. Link the Bluetooth gadget in the Google Home app, set up Voice Match in Assistant and you can ask the voice helper to locate your trackers (and hopefully, the items attached to…
Facebook AI can 'hide' people from facial recognition
October 27, 2019
Facebook has already stopped using facial recognition by default, but now it might have a way for people to dodge facial recognition altogether. Its researchers have developed an AI system that can “de-identify” people in real time, including live videos. The approach pairs an adversarial auto-encoder with a trained face classifier to ever-so-slightly distort a person’s face…
It’s usually at least mildly newsworthy when a large or important or particularly hot company cuts a chunk of its workforce, as UiPath did this week when it cut about 400 jobs from its total of about 3,200. But the timing and optics of this particular round of cuts from…
Google to bring AI for biodiversity research to TensorFlow Hub
October 25, 2019
Machine learning algorithms abound in biodiversity research, but sometimes without the proper attribution or oversight. In an effort to raise the academic bar, Google says it’ll release an AI workflow for institutions, developed in collaboration with Global Biodiversity…
Google’s AI Platform, a cloud-hosted service facilitating machine learning and data science workflows, today gained a new feature in backend models that tap powerful Nvidia graphics chips. In related news, Google debuted a refreshed model training experience that allows users to run a training script on any range of hardware.
For the uninitiated, AI Platform enables developers to prep, build…
How to succeed with AI and machine learning at scale
October 25, 2019
Presented by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (BlueData)
You’ve heard all the great benefits that AI can provide for enterprises today. From detecting fraud to predicting machine failure to understanding customer behavior — AI has the potential to deliver game-changing…
Pixelbook Go review: Faltering on Google Assistant and apps
October 25, 2019
It’s kind of incredible that a Google-made laptop runs a hobbled version of Google Assistant. We’re referring to the Pixelbook Go, which begins shipping on November 15 as a sibling to the original Pixelbook. It’s a performant and sleek machine with an exceptional…
Google researchers taught an AI to recognize smells
October 24, 2019
The researchers created a data set of nearly 5,000 molecules identified by perfumers, who labeled the molecules with descriptions ranging from “buttery” to “tropical” and “weedy.” The team used about two-thirds of the data set to train its AI (a graph neural network or GNN) to associate molecules with the descriptors they often receive. The researchers then used…
