AI & Robotics

In January during the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Google debuted interpreter mode, a real-time translation feature for Google Home speakers and third-party smart displays like those from JBL, Sony, LG, and Lenovo. The tech giant said at the time that interpreter mode would eventually come to mobile devices, but it didn’t set a date. The date is today, as it turns out. As of this…

Incorporating AI and machine learning technologies into everyday workflows isn’t as easy as the testimonials would have you believe. That’s the top-level finding from a survey of 750 business decision makers conducted by Algorithmia, which found that while machine learning maturity in the enterprise is generally increasing, the majority of companies (50%) spend between 8 and 90 days deploying…

Life insurance isn’t as popular as it once was, despite the fact that a majority of people consider it to be important. Over 80% of consumers agreed in a recent survey that people need a life insurance policy, yet just 62% say they have one themselves. In fact, only 44% of U.S. households held individual life insurance as of 2010 — a 50-year low — compared with the 72% of Americans who owned…

Factories regularly face inventory shortages and missed deliveries, but they’re wounds of a self-inflicted nature. Just ask Richard Lebovitz, the founder of LeanDNA, who previously founded Factory Logic, which was acquired by SAP for an undisclosed amount. He’s the founder and CEO of LeanDNA, an Austin, Texas-based startup building a cloud-based actionable intelligence platform for factory…