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MIT AND IBM DEVELOP AI THAT RECOMMENDS DOCUMENTS BASED ON TOPIC

Dec 20, 2019

Even the best text-parsing recommendation algorithms can be stymied by data sets of a certain size. In an effort to to deliver faster, better classification performance than the bulk of existing methods, a team at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab and MIT’s Geometric Data Processing Group devised a te...

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MICROSOFT FINALLY REVEALED ITS STANCE ON PAYING RANSOMWARE DEMANDS

Dec 19, 2019

In mid-2010, ransomware became the most common threat online and since then there has been a debate about how to deal with it, whether to pay a ransom or not. The major point of concern has been the advice that many government and private agencies have been giving. As in 2015, one of the FBI agents ...

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MICROSOFT’S M12 BACKS AI-POWERED CONTRACT MANAGEMENT STARTUP EVISORT IN $15M ROUND

Dec 19, 2019

Microsoft is getting behind Evisort, a startup that makes artificial intelligence software to automate processing and tracking of corporate contracts. Microsoft’s investment arm M12 co-led a $15 million Series A round for the San Mateo, Calif. startup, along with Palo Alto-based venture capita...

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GOOGLE DETAILS HOW ML HELPS TRANSCRIBE, RECOGNIZE AUDIO IN RECORDER APP

Dec 19, 2019

Following up an extensive explainer on some of the artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technology behind the camera in the Pixel 4, Google’s AI team has posted another blog detailing how the new Recorder app works. Recorder launched on Pixel 4 and recently made its way to ol...

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CLOUD4C ACHIEVES MICROSOFT AZURE EXPERT MANAGED SERVICES PROVIDER STATUS

Dec 18, 2019

Global cloud managed services provider Cloud4C has achieved Microsoft Azure Expert Managed Services Provider status from Microsoft. The Microsoft Azure Expert Managed Services Provider (MSP) status recognises a cloud solution provider that has proven expertise and differentiation in the marketplace,...

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MICROSOFT OFFERS TOOLS TO BLOCK CHROMIUM-EDGE FROM SILENTLY DOWNLOADING TO WINDOWS 10 PCS

Dec 18, 2019

Microsoft has revived a practice from the heydays of Internet Explorer (IE), releasing tools to block the new all-Chromium Edge from automatically reaching Windows 10 PCs starting next month. When deployed and run, the Blocker Toolkit will retain the original Edge, the one built with Microsoft's...

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AWS DENIES CLAIMS IT STEALS FEATURES FROM OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE

Dec 18, 2019

Amazon's cloud computing division AWS has rejected claims that the company steals features from open source software projects. The cloud giant was less than pleased with a recent article in the New York Times which criticized the company for integrating open source software created by others int...

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DEEPMIND AND GOOGLE RECREATE FORMER NFL LINEBACKER TIM SHAW’S VOICE USING AI

Dec 18, 2019

In August, Google AI researchers working with the ALS Therapy Development Institute shared details about Project Euphonia, a speech-to-text transcription service for people with speaking impairments. They showed that, using data sets of audio from both native and non-native English speakers with neu...

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NVIDIA’S TENSORRT 7 IMPROVES THE COMPILER FOR CONVERSATIONAL AI MODELS

Dec 17, 2019

A partnership with Didi Chuxing and new autonomous driving solutions weren’t the only things Nvidia announced at its GPU Technology Conference in Suzhou today. The chip firm took the opportunity to introduce TensorRT 7, the newest release of its platform for high-performance deep learning infe...

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VENAFI ADDS THREE DEVELOPERS TO MACHINE IDENTITY PROTECTION DEVELOPMENT FUND

Dec 17, 2019

Cloud--Venafi®, the inventor and leading provider of machine identity protection, today announced direct sponsorship of three new developers from its Machine Identity Protection Development Fund. The funded developers will create integrations that accelerate the delivery of comprehensive protect...

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INTEL ACQUIRES AI CHIP STARTUP HABANA LABS FOR $2 BILLION

Dec 16, 2019

In a clear signal of its ambitions in the AI chip market, Intel this morning announced that it has acquired Habana Labs, an Israel-based developer of programmable AI and machine learning accelerators for cloud datacenters. The deal is worth approximately $2 billion, and Intel says it will strengthen...

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NEW SOFTWARE PROGRAM DESIGNED TO STREAMLINE MANAGEMENT OF SOUTH CAROLINA'S HEMP LICENSING PROGRAM

Dec 16, 2019

Kelly Registration Systems (KRS), a leading provider of essential information and automation solutions to the agribusiness and pesticide industry, recently announced it has extended its existing contract with the South Carolina Department of Agriculture (SCDA) to build the software system that will ...

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GOOGLE & ALPHABET CEO CALLS FOR AI REGULATION

Jan 21, 2020

Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has laid out his case for greater regulation of artificial intelligence. He has highlighted serious security issues that c...

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GOOGLE LAUNCHES NEW PYTHON PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE COURSE WITH A SCHOLARSHIP OF 2500

Jan 20, 2020

Google has launched a program called Google IT Automation with Python Professional Certificate. The program is designed to empower U.S. people with ...

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ELON MUSK'S TESLA DENIES CLAIMS OF UNINTENDED ACCELERATION IN VEHICLES
Jan 20, 2020
Electric car maker Tesla said on Monday there was no unintended acceleration in its vehicles, as petition signature-gatherers demanding a federal safety investigation have claimed. On Friday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said it would review the petition and released a ...
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GO READ THIS NYT EXPOSE ON A CREEPY NEW FACIAL RECOGNITION DATABASE USED BY US POLICE
Jan 20, 2020
Hundreds of law enforcement agencies across the US have started using a new facial recognition system from Clearview AI, a new investigation by The New York Times has revealed. The database is made up of billions of images scraped from millions of sites including Facebook, YouTube, and Venmo. The Ti...
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MICROSOFT: APPLICATION INSPECTOR IS NOW OPEN SOURCE, SO USE IT TO TEST CODE SECURITY
Jan 17, 2020
Microsoft has released the Microsoft Application Inspector, a cross-platform open-source command-line tool that its engineers use to quickly probe third-party open-source software components for security issues. The static source-code analyzer aims to help developers handle potential security issues...
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WILL GOOGLE’S MORE-EFFICIENT ‘REFORMER’ MITIGATE OR ACCELERATE THE ARMS RACE IN AI?
Jan 17, 2020
The promise of technology is always more for less — faster processors at lower prices, thanks to more circuits crammed into the same silicon area. And artificial intelligence has an analogue, it turns out, based on recent work by engineers at Google, who have found a way to take the &quo...
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MICROSOFT'S AMBITIOUS PLAN TO REMOVE ITS ENTIRE CARBON FOOTPRINT
Jan 16, 2020
Microsoft has announced its plan to be carbon negative by 2030, and the company hopes that by 2050, it will have removed from the environment all the carbon that has been emitted by its business -- directly and by electrical consumption -- since it was founded in 1975. "The world's climate ...
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WEB DEVELOPERS: MICROSOFT BLAZOR LETS YOU BUILD NATIVE IOS, ANDROID APPS IN C#, .NET
Jan 16, 2020
Microsoft wants .NET developers to use its new experimental Blazor toolkit for building web apps to create native iOS and Android apps in C#. Microsoft this week announced Experimental Mobile Blazor Bindings for Blazor, a feature of ASP.NET that allows developers to "build interactive web UIs u...
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DHL: DRIVING GLOBAL STANDARDISATION OF OPERATIONS WITH ROBOTICS
Jan 16, 2020
De Bok emphasises that with a large global company such as DHL, the importance of having a strategy that utilises digitalisation and collaborative robotics is crucial for enhancing value, and ensuring its workforce is unified and connected. “Standardisation of our processes is how we improve a...
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GOOGLE ADDS APPSHEET AS ITS LATEST ACQUISITION
Jan 15, 2020
Google has acquired a 6 year old start-up AppSheet that lets customers build and distribute applications without writing a single line of code.

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MICROSOFT LAUNCHES CHROMIUM EDGE FOR WINDOWS 7, WINDOWS 8, WINDOWS 10, AND MACOS
Jan 15, 2020
Right on schedule, Microsoft today launched its new Edge browser based on Google’s Chromium open source project. You can download Chromium Edge now for Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, and macOS directly from microsoft.com/edge in more than 90 languages. This is Edge 79 stable, for those who ...
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APPLE ACQUIRES EDGE AI STARTUP XNOR
Jan 15, 2020
Apple has acquired AI startup Xnor.ai, a source familiar with the matter told VentureBeat today. Xnor focuses on the efficient deployment of AI in edge devices like smartphones, cameras, and drones. Apple reportedly paid roughly $200 million for the company, according to Geekwire. Xnor’s techn...
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Google’s Python Professional Certificate Pushes Automation
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As anyone involved in programming will tell you, Python is an immensely popular language. From finance to machine learning, developers around the world rely on Python to get their jobs done—and ...
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The Google Assistant is built to keep your information private, safe and secure while helping make your life a little easier. Learn how the Google Assistant works to protect your privacy....
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WHAT DOES MODERN ENDPOINT SECURITY LOOK LIKE?

January 01-01, 1900

A lot has changed since the early days of the antivirus industry. Not only have attacks increased in sophistication, speed, and complexity, but the environment around endpoints have changed significantly as well. Cloud adoption, mobility, and many other technological and business trends have signifi...

THE BENEFITS AND CHALLENGES OF EMBRACING CLOUD DATA PLATFORMS IN A HYBRID WORLD

November 13-13, 2018

Database workloads were, initially, comparatively slow to move to the cloud, but as the pace of enterprise cloud adoption accelerates 451 Research Voice of the Enterprise studies show that the relational database is now the most popular public cloud service currently in use – and seven of the top 12...

EDTECHTEAM GOOGLE SUMMIT MINNESOTA 2020

February 01-02, 2020

The EdTechTeam Google Summit is your opportunity to achieve your goals, maximize your technology investment, and address your challenges by equipping your staff with high-impact skills and strategies. Set your team up for success by sending them to this event so they can: Explore how to leverage pow...

THIRTY-FOURTH AAAI CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

February 07-12, 2020

Join us for a special event featuring the winners of the ACM 2018 Turing Award on Sunday, February 9. Yann LeCun (New York University and Facebook), Geoffrey E. Hinton (Google, The Vector Institute, and University of Toronto), Yoshua Bengio (University of Montreal and Mila) (left to right) will pres...

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