Real estate tech company Snapdocs today closed a $60 million funding round. According to a spokesperson, the proceeds will be put toward product development and expanding the company’s workforce. (Snapdocs plans to double its 225-employee headcount within the next 9 months.)
Mortgage lending is a complex process due to regulatory constraints, yet banks in many markets have managed to digitize…
Will AI power video chats of the future? That’s what Nvidia implied this week with the unveiling of Maxine, a platform that provides developers with a suite of GPU-accelerated AI conferencing software. Maxine brings AI effects including gaze correction, super-resolution…
Google Assistant finally works with some third-party apps
October 8, 2020
Before today, if you ask Siri or the Google Assistant to “check the news on Twitter,” you’ll either be shown the @CHEK_News account on the Twitter website or articles about the social network on Apple News. For Android users, voice commands are about to get a lot…
The 2021 versions of Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements are now available, and Adobe has added a number of AI-powered features to them. Those apps are Adobe’s streamlined versions of Photoshop and Premiere, and they’re designed for beginners and folks who don’t need pro-level image- and video-editing suites. They’re standalone products that don’t require a subscription.
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Starting today, Google Assistant can quickly open, search, and interact with some of the most popular Android apps on the Google Play Store. To kick off its Google Assistant Developer Day conference, Google this morning announced new Assistant shortcuts across fitness…
Density, a startup building AI-powered, people-counting infrared sensors, today announced a new product called Open Area that can map offices ostensibly without compromising privacy. The company expects that Open Area will facilitate social distancing during the pandemic…
SiteAware (formerly Dronomy), a startup developing a verification platform for construction, today closed a $10 million funding round co-led by Axon Ventures and Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH. The company says the funding will be used to accelerate its expansion in the U.S. market as construction resumes post-pandemic-related delays.
Housing construction is gaining steam as developers sprint…
Google Assistant comes to Tobii Dynavox devices and apps
October 6, 2020
Google today announced that it’s bringing Google Assistant to Tobii Dynavox‘s apps and services, enabling users with accessibility needs to assign virtual tiles to actions that control smart home devices and appliances. The companies also partnered to integrate Action…
AI researchers say they’ve created a framework for controlling four-legged robots that promises better energy efficiency and adaptability than more traditional model-based gait control of robotic legs. To demonstrate the robust nature of the framework that adjusts to…
Payment automation solutions provider Tipalti today raised $150 million at an over $2 billion valuation. The company says it will devote the funds to increasing the size of its developer, product management, customer operations, sales, and business development teams.
Following a year of double-digit growth in 2017, global payments returned to an established pattern of steady yet strong performance…
