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Voice: The Next Computing Empire
The Motley Fool - Armun Asgari
Technology that understands what you're saying is the wave of the future. This article is the first in a two-part series aimed at exploring the …
Aipoly Is An App That Helps The Visually Impaired See
curiosity.com - Curiosity Staff
Sight is the main way most of us navigate the world. But for those with visual impairment, there's virtually no way to identify far-off objects or 2D …
IBM researchers achieve new records in speech recognition
biometricupdate.com - Mar 10, 2017 | Justin Lee
IBM researchers have set a milestone in conversational speech recognition by achieving a new industry record of a 5.5 percent word error rate, …
Searching for videos is going to get much easier thanks to Google’s new API
airsassociation.org - Corey Parker
The internet has already made searching for images a breeze. Just go on any search engine, type in what you’re looking for, and voila: Thousands of …
Can your smart home be used against you in court?
TechCrunch - Brian Heater
On a November, 2015 morning in Bentonville, Arkansas, first responders discovered a corpse floating in a hot tub. The home’s resident, James Andrew Bates, told authorities he’d found the body of Victor
How brands of the future need to utilise voice search and integrate chatbots
thedrum.com - Lois Wentworth
Voice search is pretty exciting territory at the moment. Those up-to-date in the digital marketing sphere may have been discussing optimising for …
Robot Makes Mistake, Human Notices And Does Nothing, Robot Responds And Corrects Mistake
Forbes - Kevin Murnane
Last week I wrote about how science infuses science fiction in the Syfy network series The Expanse. Now comes a story about how the researchers at MIT’s CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
The future of AI is neuromorphic. Meet the scientists building digital 'brains' for your phone
Wired UK - Aaron Frank
AI services like Apple’s Siri and others operate by sending your queries to faraway data centers, which send back responses. The reason they rely on …
Oracle and Google Refine Their Cloud Pitches to Take On Amazon
Fortune - Barb Darrow
The public cloud arena has thus far been dominated by Amazon Web Services, with Microsoft Azure making a run. So far the leaderboard has Amazon at …
Inside Look: The World's Largest Tech Companies Are Making Massive AI Investments
Forbes - Daniel Newman
From artificial intelligence (AI) that can recognize faces, choose music for you based on your mood, and even drive your car, the technology has come a long way in recent years. Although the concept of
10 must-watch IaaS cloud trends for 2017
cio.com - Senior Editor Brandon Butler covers the cloud computing industry for Network World by focusing on the advancements of major players in the industry, tracking end user deployments and keeping tabs on the hottest new startups.
Analysts who track the IaaS public cloud computing market tend to agree that 2016 was a year that solidified the positioning of three vendors: Amazon …
5 predictions for artificial intelligence for for the coming year
ReadWrite - Stuart Frankel
Artificial intelligence (AI) has officially gone mainstream. Industry research firm Gartner named AI as its number one strategic technology for a second year in a row. The acquisitions race among giants
Google rumored to announce Wifi, Home and Chromecast Ultra hardware on October 4th
Android Authority - Edgar Cervantes
The rumor mill spins strong as we approach Google’s October 4th event, where the company is expected to unveil its latest hardware. We are now hearing the new Pixel phones won’t be taking the stage alone,
Google Cloud Platform Adds Machine Learning APIs
7wdata.be
Millennials know exactly what they want and expectations are high - very high. They are empowered Developers interested in creating apps that …
Welcome to Healthcare 2.0 using @citrix @octoblu #IoT and @amazonecho and @infermedica AI API
citrix.com - Chris Matthieu
What happens when you combine Citrix Octoblu‘s Internet of Things (IoT) platform with the Amazon Echo and Infermedica’s artificial intelligence …
Researchers discover that DNA naturally fluoresces
scienmag.com - Scienmag
A Northwestern University team recently caught DNA doing something that has never been seen before: it blinked. For decades, textbooks have stated …
Jeff Bezos’ space company is a lot like Amazon was in 1994
Quartz - By Tim Fernholz
Jeff Bezos has a talent for persuading Wall Street to back radically long-term investments. He’ll certainly need it if he ever decides to take his space company, Blue Origin, public. If it’s hard to imagine
An in-depth look into advanced visualisation
bizcommunity.com
"To affect through the eyes what we fail to convey to the public, through their word-proof ears." ~ Florence Nightingale ~ Read more... | Send to a …
Microsoft's newest milestone? World's lowest error rate in speech recognition
ZDNet - Liam Tung
Microsoft has leapfrogged IBM to claim a significant test result in the quest for machines to understand speech better than humans. Microsoft claims …
Amazon and Pandora are set to launch a new music streaming service
Business Insider - Trevor Hunnicutt
Pandora could announce its plans this to expand its $5-per-month platform this week, with possible features including skipping more songs or storing several hours of playlists, the newspaper said. The
Self-Driving Cars Can Learn a Lot by Playing Grand Theft Auto
MIT Technology Review - by Will Knight
Hyper-realistic computer games may offer an efficient way to teach AI algorithms about the real world. Spending thousands of hours playing Grand Theft …
Google’s DeepMind Achieves Speech-Generation Breakthrough
Bloomberg - Jeremy Kahn
Google’s DeepMind unit, which is working to develop super-intelligent computers, has created a system for machine-generated speech that it says …
4 Steps for Learning Deep Learning
medium.com
A handy list of resources to help you become a deep learning expert Vivek KumarBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Sep 7, 2016 Firstly, if you need some basic …
Watch: IBM's Watson Created a Super Creepy Movie Trailer All By Itself
Fox News - Jason Fell
IBM’s artificial intelligence powerhouse Watson can know add “cinematic genius” to its virtual resume. For its forthcoming suspense/horror movie, Morgan, 20th Century Fox looked to IBM’s Watson to create
Tractor for Modern Farm Features Everything But the Farmer
Bloomberg - Mario Parker
As Detroit car makers and Silicon Valley tech giants vie to bring driverless cars to U.S. roads, one of the world’s largest tractor makers is looking …
Stay tuned for new robot, says Sony CEO
pcworld.com - Martyn Williams
Sony's much anticipated new robot is under development and customers should hang on a little longer to see it, CEO Kaz Hirai said on Thursday. Sony began working on a home robot in April this year and
Elon Musk Is "Making Progress" on a Neural Lace Brain Hack
Inverse
On Saturday, Elon Musk announced on Twitter that he is “making progress” on his neural lace design, which is designed to augment human intelligence …
How Startups Benefit From Amazon, Google, and Microsoft's Cloud Race
Inc Magazine - By Russ Fujioka
Cloud computing is helping the smallest of businesses thrive. The benefits of cloud technology are spreading from Amazon to the smallest family-run companies in the US. Down in Arizona, Governor Doug is
This one chart gives you an idea of how crazy Amazon's cloud growth really is
Business Insider - Eugene Kim
Amazon Web Services turned out to be a profitable, fast-growing cloud computing juggernaut when it first revealed its financials earlier this year. But this chart by market research firm MKM Partners give
Machine Learning Could Be Google's Secret Cloud Weapon
Forbes - Robert Hof
Now that Google has infused the brand of artificial intelligence known as machine learning into everything from search to speech recognition, it’s making the technology it views as tech’s next big wave

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Voice: The Next Computing Empire

Aipoly Is An App That Helps The Visually Impaired See

IBM researchers achieve new records in speech recognition

Searching for videos is going to get much easier thanks to Google’s new API

Can your smart home be used against you in court?

How brands of the future need to utilise voice search and integrate chatbots

Robot Makes Mistake, Human Notices And Does Nothing, Robot Responds And Corrects Mistake

The future of AI is neuromorphic. Meet the scientists building digital 'brains' for your phone

Oracle and Google Refine Their Cloud Pitches to Take On Amazon

Inside Look: The World's Largest Tech Companies Are Making Massive AI Investments

10 must-watch IaaS cloud trends for 2017

5 predictions for artificial intelligence for for the coming year

Google rumored to announce Wifi, Home and Chromecast Ultra hardware on October 4th

Google Cloud Platform Adds Machine Learning APIs

Welcome to Healthcare 2.0 using @citrix @octoblu #IoT and @amazonecho and @infermedica AI API

Researchers discover that DNA naturally fluoresces

Jeff Bezos’ space company is a lot like Amazon was in 1994

An in-depth look into advanced visualisation

Microsoft's newest milestone? World's lowest error rate in speech recognition

Amazon and Pandora are set to launch a new music streaming service

Self-Driving Cars Can Learn a Lot by Playing Grand Theft Auto

Google’s DeepMind Achieves Speech-Generation Breakthrough

4 Steps for Learning Deep Learning

Watch: IBM's Watson Created a Super Creepy Movie Trailer All By Itself

Tractor for Modern Farm Features Everything But the Farmer

Stay tuned for new robot, says Sony CEO

Elon Musk Is "Making Progress" on a Neural Lace Brain Hack

How Startups Benefit From Amazon, Google, and Microsoft's Cloud Race

This one chart gives you an idea of how crazy Amazon's cloud growth really is

Machine Learning Could Be Google's Secret Cloud Weapon