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Instant Games shows how far Facebook Messenger has come
Facebook Inc.’s controversial decision to split Messenger off into its own app is finally starting to make sense after roughly two years, as the social media giant continues building new features in its quest to turn Messenger into a full-fledged platform. This week, Facebook announced that users can now play a number of games directly through ...
MIT vision algorithm animates pictures by predicting the future
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a new computer vision algorithm that they say is capable of creating short animations simply by looking at a still picture and predicting what will happen next. Computer vision is essentially a way for computers to understand images using artificial intelligence. But while computers are already ...
Japan plans to build the fastest deep learning supercomputer
The Japanese government announced this week that it will be hopping on one of today’s hottest technology bandwagons by building what it claims will be the world’s fastest supercomputer for deep learning research. The goal behind the new system, which sports the descriptive-yet-boring name of AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure, is to provide Japanese startups, businesses and academics with ...
Google Translate can understand words it doesn’t actually know yet
In its early days, Google Translate wasn’t exactly perfect, but over the years, it has gotten smarter and smarter at translating text. Thanks to the recent boom in machine learning research, Google Inc.’s translation service could soon become the universal translator we’ve always wanted. Now, according to a new post on the Google Research Blog, ...
Google DeepMind to help streamline national patient care in U.K.
Google Inc.’s DeepMind team has become one of the best-known artificial intelligence research groups in the world thanks to a few major breakthroughs, most notably AlphaGo’s victory earlier this year. Now, DeepMind has formed a landmark five-year partnership with the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, part of the U.K.’s National Health Service. In a ...
Amazon dives deeper into deep learning with MXNet framework
Nearly every major tech company, from Google Inc. to Facebook Inc., has been making deep learning an increasingly important aspect of their businesses, and today Amazon.com Inc. got into the game. The company, whose Amazon Web Services is the leader in cloud computing, announced that it has chosen the MXNet software framework on which it ...
Doppler Labs delays its augmented reality earbuds but announces new partnerships
Doppler Labs Inc. has been teasing its Here One augmented reality earbuds since June, but it looks like the company hit a snag with its new product. Here One was originally slated for a November release, but this week Doppler Labs announced that it would be pushing the launch all the way back to February. According to Doppler ...
Google Maps now tells you how busy places are in real time
Google Maps has offered its “Popular Times” feature for about a year now, allowing users to gauge how busy a business will be at certain times of the day based on past history. Now, Google is making the feature a bit more useful — and creepy — by showing real-time stats using location data taken from people’s ...
Tesla finally completes its $2.6B acquisition of SolarCity
Electric car maker and autonomous vehicle pioneer Tesla Motors Inc. has completed its $2.6 billion acquisition of SolarCity Corp., a California-based renewable energy company that specializes in residential solar power. The deal between the two companies, both started by Elon Musk, became final after approval from over 85 percent of Tesla shareholders last week. Tesla announced its ...
Google opens new AI lab in Montreal and creates $3.4M research grant
Over the last few years, Google Inc. has become one of the top players in artificial intelligence research, with promising results from high-profile projects like AlphaGo and Magenta. Now, the search engine giant has announced that it will be expanding its AI focus to Canada with the creation of a new AI and deep learning research ...
