Google has done some pretty spectacular things. They’ve gone from being the world’s best search engine to a standing powerhouse of innovation in tech. The list of homegrown products spans across Gmail, the Android OS, the Pixel smartphone and Google Glass, to …Continue reading
Robot Sits for University Entrance Math Exam in China
A robot named AI-MATHS took the math section of the Chinese university “gaokao” entrance exam and achieved passing scores. The test took place in Chengdu, capital of the Sichuan province in China on June 7, 2017. The gaokao is widely considered as …Continue reading
Day 1 of Google’s Annual Developer Conference Brings Spate of New Applications
Day one of Google’s annual three-day developer conference brought together industry experts from all across the world and a spate of announcements from Google. During the keynote address, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced that the company has reached the milestone of getting …Continue reading
Data Science Lab Director Awarded World Bank Grant
Information Technology University (ITU) faculty member and Data Science Lab Director Dr Faisal Kamiran has won a World Bank innovation award for his research on the identification of hotspots for harassment of women in public transport. His team has been awarded $100,000 …Continue reading
Google Can Help Detect Breast Cancer Using Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence, also known as AI, has been making leaps and bounds especially in the healthcare domain. Now Google is using AI to review patients biological tissue samples in order to detect breast cancer. The results of this technology have been revealed …Continue reading
Education Startup at Plan9 Secures Product Acceleration Investment
An education sector startup under incubation at Plan9 has raised product acceleration investment including technical and operational support from Shopistan, a company that provides products and managed services to e-commerce retailers. The announcement was made through a press release last week. Nearpeer, …Continue reading
The Coming Age of Machine Intelligence
Marc Andreessen once said that software was eating the world. The point he was trying to make was that software increasingly represents the value in most economic processes. In this sense, where software was previously one small component of a complex process …Continue reading
Fluenty: Bringing Artificial Intelligence into Your Smartphone
Most smart watches today come with a clever feature of preset responses to messages received by the user. So in case you’re not near your phone, you can directly reply to a message, choosing one of the answers in the list. This …Continue reading
Facebook Plans to Boost Its Translations Using Neural Networks This Year
Facebook is working to get significantly better at automatically translating updates from friends not written in your native language. The social network plans to roll out a new translation system later this year. It is based on artificial neural networks, an approach …Continue reading
Why Intel’s Job Cuts May Be Just the Beginning
Intel is cutting 12,000 workers as it faces the financial consequences of underestimating a profound shift in computing from desktop computers to pocket-sized devices. And more trouble may lie ahead. The rate at which Intel makes technological advances suddenly seems to be …Continue reading
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