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Russia blocks LinkedIn for storing user data outside the country
Russia has officially blocked professional-focused social network LinkedIn for failing to store Russian user data on servers located within the country. Roskomnadzor, Russia’s communications regulator, proposed the ban last week, and now it seems that Russian users are no longer able to access the site. “LinkedIn’s vision is to create economic opportunity for the entire ...
Any.do made an AI to help you get things done
The makers of popular task app Any.do have announced a few new features coming to the platform, including a new artificial intelligence assistant that is supposed to make it easier to accomplish some tasks straight through the app. “The Any.do Assistant is new way to think about productivity: making sure things get done, whether you ...
Intel joins Disney to put on holiday light show with drones
Drones are being used for everything these days, from generating 3D maps to delivering blood and medicine, and now Intel Corp. has added yet another use to that list: entertainment. This week, Intel announced that it is teaming up with the Walt Disney Company to put on a series of aerial light shows using Intel’s ...
Nvidia’s new AI project aims to speed up cancer research
Computer graphics chip maker Nvidia Corp. is forming a new partnership with the National Cancer Institute and the U.S. Department of Energy to develop an artificial intelligence framework aimed at supercharging cancer research. The new framework, announced Monday, is named the Cancer Distributed Learning Environment, or CANDLE. According to Nvidia, it will attempt to achieve the “Cancer Moonshot” goal ...
Autodesk CTO: Machine learning, VR, other new technologies are disrupting design
New technologies such as machine learning, virtual reality, generative design and robotics are disrupting multiple industries, especially for designers in those industries. That’s the word from Jeff Kowalski, chief technology officer at the engineering and 3D design software giant Autodesk Inc. Kowalski laid out the new world for design today at the company’s annual Autodesk University ...
GE buying spree continues with AI, Internet of Things startups
Right on the heels of announcing one major acquisition, the $915 million buy of ServiceMax Inc., General Electric Corp. today added not one but two other acquisitions: machine learning startup Wise.io and data intelligence company Bit Stew Systems. Wise.io specializes in predictive intelligence, which uses machine learning to anticipate upcoming events. The startup’s technology was initially used by astrophysicists ...
Quantopian raises $25M for crowdsourced investing algorithms
Boston-based company Quantopian has just closed a $25 million Series C funding to expand its crowdsourced investment algorithm platform. The round was led by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, along with additional contributions from earlier investors, including Bessemer Venture Partners, Steve Cohen’s Point72 Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Spark Capital. Quantopian’s latest financing round brings the ...
Facebook to block race-based targeted ads for housing, employment and credit
It is no secret that Facebook Inc. uses our personal data to determine what targeted ads should pop up in our news feed, but one controversial feature that some of those ads use is a user’s race. A recent investigation by ProPublica that surfaced the targeting by race prompted an outcry from civil rights and other ...
Google’s tiny Project Soli radar can now identify nearby objects
Google Inc. last year revealed its miniature Project Soli radar devices, which are so small that they can fit into mobile devices like phones and smartwatches to power “touchless interactions,” such as gesture controls. Now, they’re getting smarter. Researchers from The University of St Andrews in Scotland have managed to use Project Soli’s radars not ...
Zipline raises $25M to expand medicine drone delivery service
San Francisco-based drone startup Zipline Inc. announced it closed a $25 million Series B funding round led by Visionnaire Ventures, along with investments from Andreessen Horowitz, Yahoo Inc. cofounder Jerry Yang, Sequoia Capital and Subtraction Capital. The latest round brings Zipline’s total funding up to $43 million, which the company says will allow it to expand its ...
