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Eigen and ING target financial industry with NLP-driven data extraction

Eigen Technologies, a U.K. startup that offers natural language processing (NLP) technology to help companies extract meaningful data from documents, has closed a $42 million series B round of funding. This includes a fresh $5 million tranche from Dutch finance giant ING, following an initial $37 million raise back in November. Additionally, Eigen and ING announced a deeper working partnership to…
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Google Ads app gains a dedicated dark mode on Android

Google has now officially updated the Google Ads app with its own dedicated dark mode, giving it parity with the growing array of darkened Android and iOS apps. With Android 10 finally giving the people what they want, with a system-wide dark mode, it would stand to reason…
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Xbox Live is down as people huddle at home away from coronavirus

Xbox Live is down due to a number of technical disruptions. Microsoft’s online gaming service isn’t working for everybody, and the company has told players it is working to bring it back online. The Xbox Live outage is primarily keeping people from signing into the service across Xbox One, Xbox 360, and Windows. In turn, that is preventing players from booting up digital games or games that…
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Amazon’s AI predicts context from search queries

Amazon is using AI and machine learning to predict context from customers’ queries. In a preprint paper accepted to the ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval scheduled to take place this month, Amazon researchers describe a system that predicts activities like “running” from queries like “Adidas men’s pants.” It could help to improve the quality of search…
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Samsung ‘Galaxy Sanitizing Service’ will disinfect your smartphone to fight coronavirus

Hand sanitizer, masks, and gloves are all good ways of combatting germs and viruses, but they’re all rendered irrelevant if you touch your dirty, germ-ridden smartphone. To help combat the coronavirus’ spread, Samsung is apparently kicking off a new “Galaxy Sanitizing Service” which will disinfect your smartphone for free at the company’s stores. Through its Samsung Service Centers and…
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