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…
IBM’s AI generates high-quality voices from 5 minutes of talking
September 30, 2019
Training powerful text to speech models requires sufficiently powerful hardware. A recent study published by OpenAI drives the point home — it found that since 2012, the amount of compute used in the largest runs grew by more than 300,000 times. In pursuit of less…
Google researchers train AI to distinguish 9 Indian languages
September 30, 2019
The world speaks thousands of languages — roughly 6,500, to be exact — and systems from the likes of Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon become better at recognizing them each day. The trouble is, not all of those languages have large corpora available, which can make…
Even the tech expert from 'Mr. Robot' can’t figure out this iPhone hack
September 30, 2019
If your dad were the technical advisor for the realistic hacks on Mr. Robot and he lovingly micromanaged your gadgets, you’d probably feel pretty badass about the security of your personal devices. So when one of Marc Rogers’ kids had their iPhone pickpocketed at San Francisco Pride this year, things took an unexpected turn when tech-savvy thieves pulled off hacking tricks that had…
Google’s highly scalable AI can generate convincingly humanlike speech
September 30, 2019
A generative adversarial network (GAN) is a versatile AI architecture type that’s exceptionally well-suited to synthesizing images, videos, and text from limited data. But it’s not much been applied to the audio production domain owing to a number of design challenges…
DataRobot launches AI Catalog to enable enterprise team collaboration
September 30, 2019
Robotic process automation company DataRobot today announced the latest release of the DataRobot Enterprise AI Platform, which includes the changes for automated feature engineering and the debut of AI Catalog, a service that lets enterprise teams search customer data in…
BlackBerry has announced a new business unit dedicated entirely to cybersecurity research and development (R&D).
The BlackBerry Advanced Technology Development Labs, or BlackBerry Labs as it will be less formally known, will “operate at the forefront” of cybersecurity R&D, according to BlackBerry. The unit will be spearheaded by BlackBerry chief technology officer (CTO) Charles Eagan…
