Before the marketing departments of the world got ahold of the term “artificial intelligence,” it used to bring to mind some sort of robot. Boston Dynamics is one of the best-known company in the robotics space, largely thanks to its viral videos of its robots in action. But the company doesn’t talk to press much, so we jumped at the opportunity to sit down with Boston Dynamics CEO Marc…
FoodNoms for iOS offers robust food, calorie, macros tracking with an Apple-like UI
November 12, 2019
A new food, calorie, and macros tracking app for iPhone and iPad has arrived with a compelling design, great Apple integration, and more. FoodNoms is available now and customers can even try it out for free without signing up.
FoodNoms includes rich features like…
Disney+ launched earlier today, and to say the service is struggling to stay online is a bit of an understatement. You can’t say issues were expected, but it doesn’t make it any less frustrating for Chromecast, Android, and other streamers who are hoping to get their fix…
Stradigi AI raises $40.3 million to develop business AI solutions
November 12, 2019
Stradigi AI, a Montréal-based AI solutions provider and research lab founded in 2014, today announced that it has raised $53 million CAD ($40.3 million) in a series A round led by Canadian institutional funds Investissement Québec and Fonds de solidarité FTQ, with participation from Holdun Family Office, Segovia Capital Ltd., Cossette. Inc., and company cofounders Basil Bouraropoulos and Curtis…
All Macs have a clear and unmistakable ‘camera in use’ indicator in the form of a green LED next to the camera. Indeed, on Macs released from 2008 onward, there is a hardware interlock between the camera and LED which makes it physically impossible for an app to switch…
Hive raises $10.6 million to bolster project management with AI
November 12, 2019
For evidence that the future of work is automated (or at least semi-automated), look no further than startups like San Francisco-based Hive. The productivity platform provider offers solutions from meeting scheduling to task management and project monitoring, and in an…
'Sonic the Hedgehog' movie tries again with a new trailer
November 12, 2019
Paramount’s original trailer for the upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog movie was… really something, wasn’t it? The under-stylized body, the odd soundtrack choice, the teeth. Such was the Sonic fandom’s collective horror that director Jeff Fowler swiftly announced the movie would be put on pause until the studio got the design right. Now, they think they’ve nailed…
Web designer Joshua Maddux has found the iOS Facebook activating the iPhone camera while scrolling his feed. He found the same issue on five separate devices, with others able to replicate. The same issue does not appear to be present in the Android app.
Maddux posted a…
Nestlé CIO, Filippo Catalano, offers top-level AI strategy advice for business leaders (VB Live)
November 12, 2019
Presented by Hypergiant
It’s time to break down siloes and harness AI as a transformative technology. Learn how a horizontal approach can help you squeeze out the promise of AI, how leaders can build a strategic vision around elevating every part of your enterprise, and…
Epic Games announced it has acquired Quixel, a startup that created a huge “photogrammetry” asset library of real world imagery that can be used in animated films or video games.
Back in March during the Epic Games event at the Game Developers Conference, Quixel demoed a cinematic short film Rebirth that looked like it was someone taking a video of a landscape with a video camera. Only it was…
