Google Flights will now predict airline delays – before the airlines do

 Google is rolling out a few new features to its Google Flights search engine to help travelers tackle some of the more frustrating aspects of air travel – delays and the complexities of the cheaper, Basic Economy fares. With the regard to delays, Google Flights won’t just be pulling in information from the airlines directly, however – it will take advantage of its… Read More

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Financial markets are a tricky beast. Depending on what you’re investing in, they can be extremely volatile and difficult to navigate for ordinary human people like us. The highs can be high, the lows can be low, and it can be tricky to know the ideal times to buy and sell. 

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Andrew Ng officially launches his $175M AI Fund

 As the founder of the Google Brain deep learning project and co-founder of Coursera, Andrew Ng was one of the most recognizable names in the machine learning community when he became Baidu’s chief scientist in 2014. He left there in early 2017 and launched a number of new AI projects. What he was really working on, though, was his AI Fund. Read More

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Google is selling a tiny camera for $249 that apparently only takes perfect pictures

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Have a spare $249 and a desire to never think about when you should be snapping a photo? Then Google has something special for you.

Google Clips quietly went on sale via Google’s website this week. The device, announced at Google’s Pixel 2 event in October, is a small camera — less than 2-by-2 inches — that users can easily hold or clip anywhere.

But it’s not just a convenient camera like Snapchat’s Spectacles or, you know, the smartphone in your hand. Google Clips takes photos at particular moments based on artificial intelligence and a machine learning algorithm. 

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Here’s how Twitter uses artificial intelligence to crop your photos

The artificial intelligence that crops your Twitter photos is getting a lot smarter. 
In a new blog post, Twitter machine learning researchers Zehan Wang and Lucas Theis describe the company’s new approach to cropping your photos into preview th…

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Tradeshift Frontiers innovation lab hopes to drive blockchain adoption in the global supply chain

Today, Tradeshift, a procure-to-pay supply chain management platform for SMBs and enterprise, announced Tradeshift Frontiers.  Frontiers is an innovation lab and incubator that will focus on transforming supply chains through emerging technologies such as distributed ledgers, artificial intelligence, and the internet of things. “The use cases we’re working through Frontiers cover… Read More

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Microsoft’s new drawing bot is an AI artist

 Microsoft today is unveiling new artificial intelligence technology that’s something of an artist – a “drawing bot.” The bot is capable of creating images from text descriptions of an object, but it also adds details to those images that weren’t included the text, indicating that the AI has a little imagination of its own, says Microsoft. “If you go to Bing… Read More

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Google’s AutoML lets you train custom machine learning models without having to code

 Google today announced the alpha launch of AutoML Vision, a new service that helps developers — including those with no machine learning (ML) expertise — build custom image recognition models. While Google plans to expand this custom ML model builder under the AutoML brand to other areas, the service for now only supports computer vision models. Read More

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Alexa will have her own opinions on beer, TV shows and more

 Alexa is starting to think for herself. The personal assistant that’s built into Amazon devices like Echo smart speakers and Fire TV may better distinguish itself from competitors like Google Assistant in the future by offering up not just facts or recommendations, but by having her own opinions on things that weren’t explicitly added to her programming. This will come into play,… Read More

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Google Cloud launches preemptible GPUs with a 50% discount

google data center Google Cloud today announced the launch of preemptible GPUs. Like Google’s preemptible VMs (and AWS’s comparable spot instances), these GPUs come at a significant discount — in this case, 50 percent. But in return, Google may shut them down at any point if it needs these resources. All you get is a 30-second warning. You also can only use any given preemptible GPU for up to… Read More

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