Sight Diagnostics, an Israeli medical devices startup that’s using AI technology to speed up blood testing, has closed a $27.8 million Series C funding round. The company has built a desktop machine, called OLO, that analyzes cartridges manually loaded with drops of the patient’s blood — performing blood counts in situ. The new funding is […]
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This wheelchair can be controlled by facial expressions
HOOBOX Robotics has built a kit that lets you control wheelchairs using facial gesturesWheelie 7 takes seven minutes to install and it uses Intel’s 3D cameras and processors to detect your expressions and translate them into wheelchair movements in re…
View More This wheelchair can be controlled by facial expressionsSmart cat shelter uses AI to let strays inside — but no dogs allowed
You might know Baidu for its search engine, but it’s looking to make a mark in the feline world too.
The Chinese internet giant has released what it’s claimed to be the first AI-powered smart cat shelter, which was put together by one of the company’s engineers, Wan Xi.
“At first, I just wanted to provide them with a warm place in winter with food and water that is not frozen,” Wan told state media.
As detailed in Baidu’s blog post, what’s novel about this use of AI is the camera at the front of the shelter’s door.
For stray cats, winter is almost fatal. Using #AI and Baidu’s #EasyDL platform, a Baidu engineer has devised an AI Smart Cattery to shelter stray cats and help them survive Beijing’s cold winter. This is the story behind – a story that has melted many hearts❤️🐱#techforgood pic.twitter.com/TlDRgkMe9P
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View More Smart cat shelter uses AI to let strays inside — but no dogs allowedFacebook just bought a furniture shopping startup
Facebook has acquired GrokStyle, a shopping startup that uses AI to help you buy furniture and other home items. It’s not clear how much Facebook will use the startup’s tech, but the move is the another sign that FB is diving deeper into e-commerce. Read more…
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View More Facebook just bought a furniture shopping startupTrump will sign an executive order to (finally) focus on AI
Better late than never.
President Donald Trump will sign an executive order to form the American AI Initiative, the White House Office of Science and Technology (WHOST) announced Monday. The order tasks federal agencies to cooperate on advancing research and development in AI, as well as considering legislative frameworks for its governance. As Reuters points out, however, the order does not specify a source of funding for the initiative.
Besides a one-day listening session on AI that the WHOST held in May 2018, the last word the administration gave on AI came from Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, who said in 2017 that the prospect of AI automation threatening jobs was “not even on our radar screen.” Read more…
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View More Trump will sign an executive order to (finally) focus on AIHave trouble falling asleep? This AI-powered tracker is on sale for $60 off.
Unless you’re part of the 1% of the superhuman population that doesn’t need much sleep, you could probably use some more shuteye.
Sleep deprivation can turn you into a total jerk, causes you to be incompetent at work (and everything, tbh), and …
How Google Assistant is planning a huge swing with amazing new features and devices — MashTalk
In this special edition of MashTalk, Mashable sits down with the Lilian Rincon, director of project management for Google Assistant, at CES 2019. Rincon details the major improvements the new Assistant is packing – like Interpreter Mode – and talks a…
View More How Google Assistant is planning a huge swing with amazing new features and devices — MashTalkDatabricks raises $250M at a $2.75B valuation for its analytics platform
Databricks, the company behind the Apache Spark big data analytics engine, today announced that it has raised a $250 million Series E round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Coatue Management, Microsoft and NEA, also participated in this round, which brings the company’s total funding to $498.5 million. Microsoft’s involvement here is probably a bit of a […]
View More Databricks raises $250M at a $2.75B valuation for its analytics platformMixtape Podcast: Oracle’s alleged $400M issue with underrepresented groups
Screen time for kids, corporations allegedly not paying people from underrepresented groups and IBM offers some hope for the future of facial recognition technology: These are the topics that Megan Rose Dickey and I dive into on this week’s episode of Mixtape. According to research by psychologists from the University of Calgary, spending too much […]
View More Mixtape Podcast: Oracle’s alleged $400M issue with underrepresented groupsThe AI market is growing, but how quickly is tough to pin down
If you work in tech, you’ve heard about AI: how it’s going to replace us, whether it’s over-hyped or not and which nations will leverage it. Our interest? How much money is going into startups?
View More The AI market is growing, but how quickly is tough to pin downFormer Facebook engineer picks up $15M for AI platform Spell
In 2016, Serkan Piantino packed up his desk at Facebook with hopes to move on to something new. The former Director of Engineering for Faceboook AI Research had every intention to keep working on AI, but quickly realized a huge issue. Unless you’re under the umbrella of one of these big tech companies like Facebook, […]
View More Former Facebook engineer picks up $15M for AI platform SpellComputer vision startup AnyVision pulls in new funding from Lightspeed
While there have been a few massive surveillance startups in China that have raised funds on the back of computer vision advances, there’s seemed to be less fervor outside of that market. Tel Aviv-based AnyVision is aiming to leverage its computer vision chops in tracking people and objects to create some pretty clear utility for the […]
View More Computer vision startup AnyVision pulls in new funding from Lightspeed