Amazon warns Echo Buds could overheat
The company sent an email asking customers to check their software was updated
How Intuit is moving from mobile-first to AI-first
App developers will increasingly have to adopt an "AI-first" mindset by default, according to Intuit chief technology officer Marianna Tessel.
How Artists Are Trying to Solve the World’s Problems
A cohort of 30 artists have received funding to find creative solutions to 21st-century problems like surveillance, digital inequality and inherited trauma.
MIT researchers find ‘systematic’ shortcomings in ImageNet data set
MIT researchers say the influential ImageNet data set has "systematic annotation issues" when used as a benchmark for evaluating object recognition models.
Move over, Siri! Researchers develop improv-based Chatbot
What would conversations with Alexa be like if she was a regular at The Second City?
Here’s what’s stopping AI from reaching human-like understanding
The short excerpt below from the 1938 film La Femme du Boulanger (The Baker’s Wife) ingeniously depicts how the human mind can extract deep meaning from life experiences and perceived situations. In the movie, directed by Marcel Pagnol, the baker Aim
Google launches digital hieroglyphics translator
Fabricius uses machine learning to translate ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs via an online tool.
How to watch Transform 2020 live
Didn't register to take part of the whole Transform experience? No worries -- we're livestreaming almost all sessions right here.
Is What I See, What I Imagine? Neural Overlap Discovered Between Vision and Imagination
Medical University of South Carolina researchers report in Current Biology that the brain uses similar visual areas for mental imagery and vision, but it uses low-level visual areas less precisely with mental imagery than with vision. These findings
Announcing nominees for the second annual Women in AI Awards
Winners will be announced on Friday, July 17 beginning at 3:55 pm. Awards will be made in 5 categories from Responsibility & Ethics of AI to AI Mentorship.
British AI chipmaker Graphcore claims Nvidia’s crown with GC200 processor
Graphcore, a British AI chipmaker, has unveiled a powerful new processor which takes Nvidia’s crown.
NowRx raises $20 million to expedite prescription deliveries with automation
NowRx, a company leveraging automation to expedite prescription medication deliveries, has raised $20 million through crowdfunding.
Gyant raises $13.6 million for its AI telehealth platform
Gyant, a startup developing an AI-powered digital platform for health providers, has raised a $13.6 million funding round.
National University of Singapore used Intel neuromorphic chip to develop touch-sensing robotic ‘skin’
Researchers at the National University of Singapore used an Intel-designed neuromorphic chip to create touch-sensing robotic "skin."
National University of Singapore demonstrates artificial skin to help robots 'feel'
Researchers have touted the artificial skin as being able to detect touches more than 1,000 times faster than the human sensory nervous system.
Could Japanese robots be the answer loneliness while social distancing?
In a time of social distancing, robots could be just what the doctor ordered, write Simon Denyer, Akiko Kashiwagi and Min Joo Kim
Using a wireless signal to detect crowd density
How do you measure crowds without violating privacy? How about using a wireless band?
Microsoft Courts New Customers on the Farm: Cows
The software company reveals a partnership with dairy cooperative Land O'Lakes that will equip cows with sensors and other gear to improve yields.