It’s Earth Day 2020, and that means there’s pretty much no better day than today to think about how your iPhone, iPad, MacBook, or other Apple device will affect the planet. Whether it’s an old iPhone 5 sitting in a drawer that you want to recycle, or a relatively new Apple Watch that you’d like to sell to upgrade to the latest model, we can help you make sure your old devices end up in…
Steam’s top 20 new games for March 2020
April 23, 2020
Valve Software is updating everyone about the top new releases on its Steam PC digital platform. Steam’s March 2020 once again illustrates its global reach. The games in the top 20 (and top 5 new free releases) come from 14 different countries. This ensures the developers…
H1 Insights raises $12.9 million for AI that helps companies find health care professionals
April 23, 2020
H1 Insights, a startup developing a platform that connects health care and life science professionals and companies, today announced that it raised $12.9 million. With the equity funding, the company plans to further develop its products, which tap AI and machine learning to…
QuillBot, a startup developing AI tools that intelligently rewrite text, today announced that it raised $4 million in financing. Fresh capital in hand, the cofounders hope to make QuillBot’s platform a one-stop editing shop, with modules that will summarize information from articles and complete paragraphs by synthesizing sentences informed by intent. QuillBot also plans to establish an R&D…
Granulate, a startup developing a platform that optimizes computing infrastructure in real time, today announced that it raised $12 million, bringing its total raised to date to $15.6 million. The company’s products could reduce the time engineers spend fine-tuning the…
In a pair of papers published on the preprint server Arxiv.org this week, Google and University of California, Berkeley researchers describe new AI and machine learning techniques that enable robots to adapt to never-before-seen tasks and grasp occluded objects. The first…
Google today announced the release of English-to-Spanish and Finnish-, Hungarian-, and Persian-to-English gender-specific translations in Google Translate that leverage a new paradigm to address gender bias by rewriting or post-editing initial translations. The tech giant claims the approach is more scalable than an earlier technique underpinning Google Translate’s gender-specific…
AI researchers from MIT, Intel, and Canadian AI initiative CIFAR have found high levels of stereotypical bias from some of the most popular pretrained models like Google’s BERT and XLNet, OpenAI’s GPT-2, and Facebook’s RoBERTa. The analysis was performed as part of the…
Legal tech startup Bodhala this week closed a $10 million round, the bulk of which will be put toward product R&D and sales efforts, cofounder and CEO Raj Goyle told VentureBeat. The company’s platform taps AI and machine learning to help companies analyze and optimize…
Since Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips and other widely available components now power almost all of the world’s 5G smartphones, individual OEMs are trying to find ways to make their devices stand out. So Motorola is launching its Edge+ phone with a familiar trick: promising insane peak speeds, even if current 5G networks aren’t yet able to deliver them.
While Edge+ isn’t a slouch on other…
