Data privacy startup Mine raises $9.5 million and expands to the U.S.
Mine, which is developing a platform that helps discover and manage personal data on the web, today closed a $9.5 million funding round.
Kite expands its AI code completions from 2 to 13 programming languages
Kite's AI code completion supports programming languages Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, HTML, CSS, Go, C, C#, C++, Objective C, Kotlin, and Scala.
Good Vibrations for New Energy: Nanogenerator “Scavenges” Power From Surroundings
Imagine a mobile phone charger that doesn’t need a wireless or main power source. Or a pacemaker with inbuilt organic energy sources within the human body. Australian researchers led by Flinders University are picking up the challenge of ‘scavenging’
Sam’s Club expands autonomous floor-sweeping robots to all U.S. stores
Sam's Club and Brain Corp will partner to deploy autonomous floor-scrubbing robots in hundreds of Sam's Club stores around the U.S.
Anyscale raises $40 million to launch a managed service for distributed computing workloads
Anyscale, the startup behind the open source project Ray, today closed a $40 million round to support its first commercial offering, a managed Ray platform.
Syte raises $40 million to bring visual search to online retailers
Syte, a visual search and discovery platform for retailers, has raised $40 million in a round of funding led by Viola Ventures.
Robots deciding their next move need help prioritizing
As robots replace humans in dangerous situations such as search and rescue missions, they need to be able to quickly assess and make decisions—to react and adapt like a human being would. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign used a model based on the game Capture the Flag to develop a new take on deep reinforcement learning that helps robots evaluate their next move.
Research collaboration COVID-19 cloud testing platform has potential to help beyond pandemic
A population-level disease monitoring system that employs at-home self-swab kits is being expanded today, at no cost to participants, as part of an infection prevalence study in the San Francisco Bay Area. The system could have broader impact on testing not only for COVID-19, but for other diseases as well.
Best face masks for work: Pandemic protection for businesses and professionals
Here are some non-medical face masks you can wear back to work.
Navigating the ‘Great Rehire’ with data intelligence
With a stark difference between a data-driven hiring team and an intelligence-driven team, companies must prepare before a war for talent begins in 2021.
Digital fortress: 5G is a weapon in national defense
A new generation of warfighting will occur (and be enabled by) low-latency 5G networks.
Exponential Progress, book review: A patchy overview of today's emerging technologies
This wide-ranging look at the imminent possibilities of technology raises interesting questions, but is undermined by basic mistakes.
MIT Using Artificial Intelligence to Translate Ancient “Dead” Languages
System developed at MIT CSAIL aims to help linguists decipher languages that have been lost to history. Recent research suggests that most languages that have ever existed are no longer spoken. Dozens of these dead languages are also considered to be
A Deepfake Porn Bot Is Being Used to Abuse Thousands of Women
An AI tool that ‘removes’ items of clothing from photos has targeted more than 100,000 women, some of whom appear to be under the age of 18.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise will build a $160 milllion supercomputer in Finland
Hewlett Packard Enterprise will build a supercomputer in Finland with a peak theoretical performance exceeding 500 petaflops.
MIT CSAIL’s AI revives dead languages it hasn’t seen before
Researchers at MIT's CSAIL developed an AI and machine learning system that can decipher 'lost' languages it hasn't seen before.
WaterNSW tapping into real-time IoT data to improve water availability
As part of the state-owned entity's plan to build a holistic picture of the quantity and quality of water in NSW.
3D hand pose estimation using a wrist-worn camera
Researchers have developed a wrist-worn device for 3D hand pose estimation. The system consists of a camera that captures images of the back of the hand, and is supported by a neural network called DorsalNet which can accurately recognize dynamic gestures.