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Intel has acquired Cnvrg.io, a platform to manage, build and automate machine learning

Intel is not disclosing any financial terms of the deal, nor who from the startup will join Intel. Cnvrg, co-founded by Yochay Ettun (CEO) and Leah Forkosh Kolben, had raised $8 million from investors that include Hanaco Venture Capital and Jerusalem Venture Partners, and PitchBook estimates that it was valued at around $17 million in its last round.
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These 3 thirty-somethings are using A.I. to build a billion-dollar start-up

It’s a strategy Quek said is fundamental to the company’s mission of inspiring “every person in the world to start selling and buying.” To help with that, Carousell now draws heavily on artificial intelligence (AI) to speed up the selling process. Image recognition, for instance, will automatically identify items and apply the appropriate categories and tags. Ultimately, Carousell wants to reduce listing times from 30 seconds to just three. “We’re doing a lot of things around AI,” said Quek. “We want to make selling even simpler, so today you can already take a photo, your category will be suggested, your title will be suggested, your price will be suggested.”
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Spectrum Labs raises $10M for its AI-based platform to combat online toxicity

Image Credits: Towfiqu Photography (opens in a new window)/ Getty Images With the U.S. presidential election now 40 days away, all eyes are focused on how online conversations, in conjunction with other hallmarks of online life like viral videos, news clips and misleading ads, will be used, and often abused, to influence people’s decisions. But political discourse, of […]
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Why AGV robots are taking over our warehouse floors

The disruption caused by the pandemic has only accelerated investments in AGVs. But what are these machines, and how will they impact the human workforce? Investment and funding continues to pour into the AGV industry, which is expected to become a US$2.74 billion markets by 2023 The disruption caused by the pandemic has only accelerated […]
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AI analysis finds that in-app ad issues are fixed faster on Android than iOS

AI analysis finds that in-app ad issues  are fixed faster on Android than iOS A recent research shows evidence that in-app ad problems are resolved better than their iOS equivalent on Apple’s App Store with popular Android applications on Google Play. A team investigated the ads in 32 cross-platform apps that rank in the respective […]
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Take a closer look at Elon Musk’s Neuralink surgical robot

While the science was front-and-center in Elon Musk’s  presentation about Neuralink, his human brain computer inference company, the surgical robot the company debuted made a splash of its own. The rounded polycarbonate sci-fi design of the brain surgeon bot looks like something out of the Portal franchise, but it’s actually the creation of Vancouver-based industrial design firm Woke Studio. […]
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Google Maps gains driving mode and food delivery status

Google today revealed Google Maps updates aimed at warning users of pandemic-related threats. Soon, maps will display all-time COVID-19 cases identified in an area, along with fast links from local authorities to resources. Google will also start to demonstrate how bus, train, and subway lines are crowded in more locations across the globe. Maps also […]
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Hover raises $60 million to streamline home inspections with computer vision

Today, $60 million was raised by Hover, a startup creating AI-powered apps that build 3D models of homes from smartphone images. The 200-employee firm says the proceeds will be used as Hover expands its product offerings to strengthen established partnerships with insurance companies.  6.26% of insured homes experienced a claim in 2017, compared to just […]
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Google Maps gains driving mode and food delivery status

Google today revealed Google Maps updates aimed at warning users of pandemic-related threats. Soon, maps will display all-time COVID-19 cases identified in an area, along with fast links from local authorities to resources. Google will also start to demonstrate how bus, train, and subway lines are crowded in more locations across the globe. Maps also […]
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Hover raises $60 million to streamline home inspections with computer vision

Today, $60 million was raised by Hover, a startup creating AI-powered apps that build 3D models of homes from smartphone images. The 200-employee firm says the proceeds will be used as Hover expands its product offerings to strengthen established partnerships with insurance companies.  6.26% of insured homes experienced a claim in 2017, compared to just […]
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Motional receives permission to begin testing autonomous vehicles without safety drivers in Nevada

Motional, the joint autonomous driving alliance between Aptiv and Hyundai, announced today that the state of Nevada has obtained permission to test its autonomous vehicles without a driver behind the wheel. The firm claims this is part of the completion of a phase of self-imposed testing and evaluation.  In the U.S., relatively few businesses have […]
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Meet This Year’s WIRED25: People Who Are Making Things Better

WHEN SARTRE SAID hell is other people, he wasn’t living through 2020. Right now, other people are the only thing between us and species collapse. Not just the people we occasionally encounter behind fugly masks—but the experts and innovators out in the world, leading the way. The 17-year-old hacker building his own coronavirus tracker. The […]
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A graffiti representing a nurse by artist David "S.I.D." Perez is pictured on a wall and part of a serie to pay tribute to essential workers during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Gland, Switzerland, April 5, 2020. (Reuters)

Ethiopia marks six months of COVID-19 – Analysis and Visualization

13 September marks six months since the first coronavirus announced in Ethiopia.In the half-year since then, reported cases are close to 64 Thousend, with more than 996 deaths. At the onset, COVID-19 mainly affected the capital city. However, the virus is now moving from high-density urban areas to informal settlements and then onward to rural […]
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AI and self driving car

Present international artificial intelligence (AI) inventory and progression in self-driving vehicle research and development Complementary subjects in technology are also artificial intelligence ( AI) and self-driving vehicles. In brief, without someone involved, you just can’t debate one. While AI has been rapidly applied in different areas, a new hot topic has been the way you […]
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