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A look at how Descartes Labs is leveraging AI to alert fire managers of...
Descartes Labs uses artificial intelligence to detect wildfires, and they can correctly spot one in a record-breaking time of nine minutes. Devastating wildfires are occurring much more frequently than...
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Facial-recognition technology has a racial-bias problem, according to a new...
Facial-recognition algorithms are more likely to misidentify people of color than white people, according to a federal study published on Thursday.The study found that black people and Asian people...
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Facebook says it removed fake accounts linked to a pro-Trump media outlet...
Facebook and Twitter are said to have dismantled thousands of accounts and pages identified as being part of a global network seeking to push misleading pro-Trump messaging. NBC News reported that the...
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15 jobs no one knew about in 2010 that everyone will want in 2020
LinkedIn released its annual report of the 15 top emerging jobs in 2020.These jobs have seen high annual growth over the last five years.Many jobs — including full stack engineer and back end developer...
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This VC says the cloud market is about to get 'harsher' as startups are...
The cloud market has grown rapidly in the last two decades, and Rory O'Driscoll, partner at Scale Venture Partners, thinks the market is about to experience a slowdown. As cloud increasingly becomes...
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Microsoft researchers used a laser to encode Warner Bros. 'Superman' on a...
Microsoft said its researchers stored the Warner Bros. film "Superman" on a piece of quartz glass the size of a coaster.The feat was a proof of concept for a years-long effort to store data in glass....
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The world's first AI inventor has been rejected by British and European...
The world's first "AI inventor" has been denied recognition by patent authorities in the UK and Europe. A six-strong squad of international legal experts is battling for designs conceived by artificial...
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Challenge to recognise world's first AI inventor heads for High Court battle
Campaigners have challenged British and European patent authorities over their rejection of the world's first "AI inventor". The nine-strong squad of international legal experts is battling for designs...
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Airbnb has patented software that digs through social media to root out...
Airbnb has software designed to scan someone's online presence, including social media, to predict their behavior and personality traits.The software, first reported by Evening Standard, is meant to...
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Here's what you need to know about Grimes, the Canadian singer dating Elon...
Grimes, the Canadian singer, posted a photo on Wednesday to Instagram and Twitter that appears to show her pregnant.The internet is already furiously speculating whether the father is Elon Musk, the...
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Walmart just opened a warehouse completely run by robots. Here are the 3...
Walmart is leading retailers in adopting artificial intelligence and machine learning, but the world's largest retailer still runs into cultural issues that undermine the push to implement the advanced...
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Tim Draper says a rigged system squashed his dream of a California breakup...
Tim Draper, a venture capitalist, believes bitcoin, blockchain technology, and artificial intelligence will disrupt major industries, including healthcare, finance, and government.The transformation of...
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Apple has acquired the artificial-intelligence startup Xnor.ai for a reported...
Apple has purchased a little-known artificial-intelligence company for a reported $200 million.According to GeekWire, the acquired company, Xnor.ai, is a Seattle-based startup that specializes in...
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AI privacy startup Mine raises $3 million to help users ask companies to...
AI startup Mine scans user emails to uncover which companies have their data – then lets them take it back at the click of a button.The "right to be forgotten" has been in place throughout Europe since...
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Here are 46 AI startups worth at least $1 billion after a record year for the...
CB Insights compiled a list of artificial intelligence companies that have reached a valuation of at least $1 billion, including several businesses that surpassed that mark in 2019.These AI unicorns...
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Toyota is building a 175-acre smart city in Japan where residents will test...
Toyota is building a 175-acre smart city in Japan at the base of Mount Fuji, the company announced earlier this month.The "city of the future" will function as a testing ground for technologies like...
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Insiders say a Palantir exec claimed profitability and compared Project Maven...
Palantir executive Shyam Sankar described the company's work developing AI targeting capabilities for drones as "this generation's Manhattan Project," according to two people familiar with the...
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The next 10 years of Apple will include self-driving cars, computer glasses,...
For the past 10-plus years, Apple has made billions of dollars by manufacturing and selling the iPhone.But what's next, after the iPhone? That's the big question.Apple has a few major projects in the...
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Novartis, one of the world's largest drugmakers, is turning to AI and data...
Swiss drugmaker Novartis wants to become a data science company and use artificial intelligence to solve some of the industry's most intractable problems.Novartis enlisted Microsoft to create an "AI...
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A leaked memo revealed Macy's is laying off thousands of workers so it can...
Companies are investing heavily in artificial intelligence, and the adoption of the advanced technology promises to further divide successful firms from those struggling to adapt to the new digital...
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