Technology

First protein folding, now weather forecasting: London-based AI firm DeepMind is continuing its run applying deep learning to hard science problems. Working with the Met Office, the UK’s national weather service, DeepMind has developed a deep-learning tool called DGMR that can accurately predict the likelihood of rain in the next 90 […]

NVIDIA on Wednesday announced the next edition of its annual GTC conference, where the company brings together industry professionals to introduce and discuss new technologies. This year, NVIDIA GTC will have Apple’s Senior Director of AI and ML research Samy Bengio as one of the speakers. more… The post Apple’s […]

Wall Street Journal: WSJ publishes six internal Facebook documents it used for its report on the negative impact of Instagram on teen girls, after Facebook published two of the docs  —  The Senate holds a hearing Thursday about the social network’s impact, prompted by The Wall Street Journal’s coverage

A lot of people are talking to computers. They just don’t know it. After digging into some research, one Forbes author concluded that up to 84% of consumers had been helped by machines. Yet around half had no idea they weren’t speaking with humans. How is this kind of relationship […]

YouTube TV could lose NBC channels when contract expires Thursday.

At first glance, JB, an artist based in Los Angeles, perhaps doesn’t look much like the picture on their driver’s license. For one thing, the ID photo is from a few years ago. Hair that was once long and dark is now buzzed and bleached. And there’s the fact that […]

PayPal has two decades of experience in online payments and manages 403 million user accounts. So, it caused ripples when it announced on 23 August it would allow UK customers to buy and sell four cryptocurrencies: bitcoin prices rose to a three-month high. But will this – and last October’s […]

Conor Hale / FierceBiotech: FDA clears an AI program from computational diagnostics startup Paige, which can help detect cancerous cells in prostate tissue slides  —  Tech companies have been questing for years to develop artificial intelligence able to help diagnose cancer—and now one has an FDA clearance to do just […]

It took two tries for Signify to make an enjoyable Philips Hue portable smart lamp – it’s not quite perfect yet, but getting there.

Employers are liable to protect the privacy of their employees, whether it is related to their personal information or using online networks for work purposes. Usually, the prime concern of employers is to know how to protect employee privacy at work. It is impossible to completely secure the employees` privacy, […]