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Bottlenose aims to automate business intelligence with AI
Los Angeles-based Big Data company Bottlenose Inc. has just revealed the next major iteration of its business intelligence product, Nerve Center. The product uses a combination of real-time data mining, predictive analytics and machine learning to help companies make important decisions related to staffing, advertising, investments and more. Advancements in machine learning and artificial intelligence seem to be ...
Facebook lets Messenger chat bots accept payments from users
Facebook appears committed making Messenger its own full-featured platform, and today the social media giant revealed a number of new features that will give businesses even more ways to interact with consumers directly through the app. The new Messenger Platform v1.2, which Facebook calls “an incremental but significant update,” adds a number of new features for ...
Garbage-eating drone starts cleaning up the Port of Rotterdam
The city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands has just launched a new type of water drone that is capable of autonomously patrolling the city’s port and cleaning up waste and debris as it goes. Rotterdam is one of the most important port locations in Europe, situated at the mouth of several of the continent’s largest rivers. The ...
DeepMind’s WaveNet uses neural nets to help computers talk to us
Computers are getting better and better at understanding human speech thanks to powerful data tools like deep learning and neural networks. Now, Google parent company Alphabet Inc.’s DeepMind unit is applying the same tools to the opposite problem: getting computers to talk to people. More specifically, DeepMind is working on WaveNet, an advanced text-to-speech synthesis ...
Uber updates Rider Music to help you ignore or annoy your driver
Uber Technologies Inc. has redesigned its in-app music features, making it easier than ever for riders to tune out their drivers. Anyone who frequently uses ride-hailing services such as Uber has likely run into two kinds of drivers: the silent type who makes the ride feel like an awkward blind date, and the chatty type who tries ...
Apple unveils iPhone 7, new Apple Watch, AirPods and more
After weeks of rumors and speculation, Apple has debuted several major new products, including the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, the Apple Watch Series 2 and much more. There were a wide range of announcements at Apple’s high-profile event today, including a surprise visit by legendary game maker Shigeru Miyamoto, who announced a new ...
Warner Bros mistakenly files DMCA takedowns for its own websites
Few industries protect their intellectual property as rabidly as major Hollywood studios do, and many are constantly on the prowl for any online content that infringes on the copyrights, as anyone who uploads a movie clip to YouTube will quickly learn. It turns out that some of those studios might be a bit too overeager when it comes to ...
Saildrone raises $14M to expand its fleet of ocean-going drones
Aerial drones may be getting all of the attention these days, but they are far from the only mobile-robot game in town. Alameda-based drone startup Saildrone Inc. has brought drone technology to the high seas with a fleet of autonomous watercraft, and today the company announced that it has just raised $14 million in Series A funding ...
Twitter’s Periscope tests livestreaming third-party video with US Open
Periscope, Twitter Inc.’s livestreaming service, has largely been focused on allowing users to broadcast live events wherever they are using their mobile devices. Now, Twitter is testing out an entirely new way to stream content through Periscope. The service will allow certain users to pull video from an external source into the Periscope app. If Twitter ...
Phishing study: More than half of people still click on risky links
The internet has been around long enough that you would think most people know better than to click an untrustworthy link from someone they do not know, but according to a new study by the Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, a majority of people still take the bait. Zinaida Benenson, chair of computer science at FAU, conducted ...
