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Aurora Insight raises $18 million for sensors and AI that monitor radio frequency spectrum in near-real time

October 22, 2019
Keeping tabs on the ever-changing global connectivity map isn’t easy, particularly for the businesses spending billions to secure wireless spectrum. It’s this gap in strategic intelligence that motivated the founding of Aurora Insight, a Washington, D.C. startup using a sensor network and machine-learned digital signals to continuously sample the full radio spectrum. Aurora Insight has…
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Researchers use AI to detect schools of herring from acoustic data

October 21, 2019
Tracking the health of underwater species is critical to understanding the effects of climate change on marine ecosystems. Unfortunately, it’s a time-consuming process — biologists conduct studies with echosounders that use sonar to determine water and object depth, and they manually interpret the resulting 2D echograms. These interpretations are often prone to error and require pricey…
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Microsoft’s AI rewrites sentences based on context

October 21, 2019
Ever heard of context modeling? It defines how contextual data is structured and maintained, and it plays a pivotal role in open domain conversation. That’s why researchers at Microsoft recently investigated a novel approach that involves rewriting the last utterance in…
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How AI powers the Pixel 4

October 21, 2019
Google’s Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL go on sale this week after making their debut at a hardware event in New York last week, and like previous versions of Google’s flagship smartphone, artificial intelligence powers many exclusive new features and improvements. On-device…
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5 predictions for AI’s impact on customer experience in 2020

October 18, 2019
Presented by Bold360 by LogMeIn 2019 is wrapping up — time to take stock of the customer service trends that shaped the year, and get positioned for 2020. Join this VB Live event for a look at the predictions that came true, the hype that fizzled, and what’s next for AI, CX, and chatbot technology. Register here for free. Don’t underestimate the power of end-of-the-year wrap-ups on business…
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Why Google still needs the cloud even with on-device ML

October 18, 2019
Google held its big annual hardware event Tuesday in New York to unveil the Pixel 4, Nest Mini, Pixelbook Go, Nest Wifi, and Pixel Buds. It was mostly predictable because details about virtually every piece of hardware the company revealed at the event were leaked months in…
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Here’s how to blow everyone’s minds with your company’s AI product at Transform 2020

October 18, 2019
The Transform Technology Showcase is back at Transform 2020, July 15-16 in San Francisco, and applications are open. Throw your hat in the ring now if you think your AI product or service is groundbreaking, cutting edge, or just plain cool — and delivers real-world results. If we agree, you could be one of the 14 companies getting up on the main stage at next year’s event. You’ll be…
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