Artificial intelligence is widely heralded as something that could disrupt the jobs market across the board — potentially eating into careers as varied as accountants, advertising agents, reporters and more — but there are some industries in dire need of assistance where AI could make a wholly positive impact, a core one being healthcare. Despite […]
View More Two former Qualcomm engineers are using AI to fix China’s healthcare problemCategory: Tsinghua University
Alibaba made a smart screen to help blind people shop and it costs next to nothing
Just a few years ago, Li Mengqi could not have imagined shopping on her own. Someone needed to always keep her company to say aloud what was in front of her, who’s been blind since birth. When smartphones with text-to-speech machines for the visually impaired arrived, she immediately bought an iPhone. “Though it was expensive,” […]
View More Alibaba made a smart screen to help blind people shop and it costs next to nothingTencent leads $50M investment in NewsDog, an app vying to be India’s Toutiao
The growth of China’s Bytedance, an ambitious $30 billion tech firm, and its highly-addictive Toutiao news aggregator app has set off a search for services with similar growth potential across the world. India, second in population only to China with rapidly-growing internet access, is an obvious place to look, and would-be pretender to the Toutiao […]
View More Tencent leads $50M investment in NewsDog, an app vying to be India’s Toutiao