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Artificial Intelligence no longer refers to some vague and obscure research experiment conducted in the dungeons of university laboratories. It is a very real and present entity that is rapidly changing our lives. For the better? That remains to be seen. Some of the world’s largest and most well-known companies are spending billions of dollars…
Google announced the launch of its Cloud Video Intelligence API at the Google Cloud Next Conference that is currently underway in San Francisco. Machine learning has been around for many years, but the growth of cloud computing, Internet of Things and connected devices around the world is slowly bringing the advantages of machine learning to…
AI is going everywhere – into space, inside the human body and now, into your mouth. Ara, the world’s first AI-capable toothbrush will actually teach you how to brush your teeth better. If you’re a dentist, you’ll probably get to keep your day job. Ara, from Kolibree, a French oral care company with offices in France and…
Amazon recently announced three major services that are aimed at making things easier for developers to exploit Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities. AI has been one of the weakest links in Amazon’s robust stack of cloud infrastructure services which, incidentally, took the company to the top of the cloud industry due their breadth and depth offered….
Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Data Group, Joseph Sirosh, wrote on the company’s official Azure blog about how the company is moving from “A PC on every desktop” to “deep learning in every software”. Though the statement might seem a bit loaded, it does sum things up about the direction in which Microsoft, a company…
Windows 10 is said to be the most secure operating system ever created by Microsoft, but you have to be on the Anniversary Update to protect yourself from ransomware – arguably the ugliest side of cybersecurity vulnerability. What is Ransomware and How Does Cybersecurity Work? Ransomware is exactly what it sounds like. A sophisticated piece of…
The United States is going through a trying time, to say the least. And I’m not talking about the GDP! I’m referring to what most conversations contain these days – the U.S. presidential elections. Being primarily a technology site, what surprises us most of all is the sheer lack of disinterest that the active artificial…
Google has been very active in the artificial intelligence space. From Google Glasses to smart cars to AlphaGo, the search engine juggernaut is exploring many ways to integrate technology into our daily lives. The company is now developing “smart” fabrics that can be used as a digital interface to link to your smartphone or any…
For the first time in the world (or outside it) space scientists will have help from artificial intelligence. Mars rover Curiosity, which landed in Mars slightly over four years ago on August 6, 2012, has been sending valuable data from the planet’s surface since then. Until now, the selection of soil and rocks for being…
It’s not easy being a leader in your field. No matter what you do, there will be critics and, worse, enemies. Tesla is familiar to criticism, but they may also need to get used to legal action against them because of the Autopilot function on the recent Model S crash. In what seems to be…
Imagine breaking into an elite circle of technology giants and announcing that you’re going to be the first company to introduce a fleet of self-driving cars in the United States. Well, Uber has just done that with its announcement that car-hailing service users will soon be able to call a driverless cab in the city of…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is slowly making a shift from the research and development stage to touching our lives wherever we go. With so many applications to choose from, it can get confusing as to what exactly artificial intelligence will be able to do over the next five to ten years. Here’s a glimpse of the…
According to Maximilian Doemling, who is BMW’s senior manager for “highly automated driving”, the German carmaker will be launching its own fleet of self-driving cars in China in the next five years. The move seems to be a peer-pressure reaction to the feverish activities that are being conducted by companies like Apple (iCar), Google, Tesla, Ford, General Motors…
It’s a bit of old news to say that Google Cloud platform is way behind the curve. Even their wiki page is so small compared to the cloud leaders Amazon, Microsoft and IBM. The standalone revenue numbers from Google Cloud is so small that Alphabet hasn’t yet started revealing them, but if you read Amazon…
In a coup of sorts, Microsoft has bagged one of the world’s biggest clients in the world for their Office 365 productivity suite – Facebook. In a gushing account written by Facebook’s Chief Information Officer (CIO) Tim Campos on Microsoft’s blog, he talks about why Microsoft’s products are best suited for his company’s needs, and…