Google today sent out invites for an October 15 hardware event in New York City. The company will almost certainly detail its Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL smartphones at the annual Made by Google event. We say “detail” because Google has already shown off the devices in response to the first Pixel 4 leaks. […]
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Apple Since Siri debuted on the iPhone 4s back in 2011, voice assistants have gone from unworkable gimmick to the basis for smart speaker technology found in one in six American homes. “Before Siri, when I talked about [what I do] there were blank stares,” Tom Hebner, head of innovation at Nuance Communications, which develops
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Imagine you go to a bookstore, and you notice and exciting cover. You pick the book, read the summary at the back, and the rave reviews. The plot seems intriguing enough, but when you check for the writer, it says “ by AI-something.” Would you buy the book, or would you think that was a
This week in future tech, a Ford survey claims that almost half of those asked in the US thought electric cars still need a fossil fuel to operate. As part of a blog post highlighting some of the electric vehicles (EVs) it is working on and plans to release soon, the US car giant Ford
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Element AI Inc., a Montreal-based startup selling artificial intelligence software, today cemented its position as one of the better-funded players in its corner of the market by announcing that it has raised 200 million Canadian dollars (about $151 million) in additional capital. The investment came from a group of public and private sector backers. Canadian pension fund CDPQ led
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23 Views | Read Time 3 minutes | CRM in recent times has changed the way organizations are storing their data and use it to interact with prospective customers. But, that leaves the sales rep with the mundane and tiresome task of manual collection of data. Moreover, this data collected is prone to human errors
Google LLC today debuted VideoBERT, an artificial intelligence system that can watch part of a video and extrapolate what will happen in the next few seconds like a human. Equipping a computer with the ability to understand and draw conclusions from a visual scene requires an incredibly sophisticated algorithm. For Google’s researchers, however, the challenge
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In the shadow of a blockbuster Apple press conference earlier this afternoon, Amazon quietly announced the general availability of the Alexa Auto SDK 2.0, the latest version of the software development kit that enables automotive OEMs to integrate Alexa into their vehicles. This release ships with a suite of tools for enabling Alexa to play
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Syte has developed image recognition technology to help retailers stay competitive in the ‘fast-evolving’ e-commerce industry. On Monday (9 September), Tel Aviv-based Syte announced that it has raised $21.5m in its Series B funding round. The start-up, which has raised more than $30m to date, said the round was led by Viola Ventures, with investment from Storm
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today is expanding its reach into artificial intelligence development with a software platform that supports the full lifecycle of machine learning model construction and deployment using the self-contained software environments called containers. HPE ML Operations provides for the rapid rollout of machine learning workloads across on-premises, public cloud and hybrid cloud environments.
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