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Will Blockchain become widely adopted in 2019?

Is Blockchain a failing trend or can it build a better world? Harish Garg...

In 2018, Blockchain and cryptocurrency exploded across tech. We spoke to Packt author Harish Garg on what they see as the future of Blockchain...
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Researchers introduce a deep learning method that converts mono audio recordings into 3D sounds...

A pair of researchers, Ruohan Gao, University of Texas and Kristen Grauman, Facebook AI research came out with a method, earlier this month, that...
Study marks a major step towards cancer detection by artificial intelligence

Researchers introduce a CNN-based system for identifying radioresistant cancer-causing cells

Earlier this year, a group of researchers from Osaka University introduced an AI system based on convolutional neural network (CNN) for automatically identifying radioresistant...
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US government privately advised by top Amazon executive on web portal worth billions to...

A top Amazon executive Anne Rung, advised the Trump administration on the launch of a new internet portal which is expected to generate billions...
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According to a report, Microsoft plans for new 4K webcams featuring facial recognition to...

Microsoft plans to introduce two new webcams next year. One feature is designed to extend Windows Hello facial recognition to all the Windows 10...
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Pixel 3’s Top Shot camera feature uses computer vision to enable users to click...

At the ‘Made by Google’ event, Google launched Pixel 3 sharing its newly introduced camera features, and one of them was Top Shot. Last...
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ProPublica shares learnings of its Facebook Political Ad Collector project

ProPublica, a non-profit newsroom known for its investigative journalism, published an article yesterday, written by Jeremy B Merrill, their news app developer, on their...
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Facebook introduces a fully convolutional speech recognition approach and open sources wav2letter++ and flashlight

Last week, Facebook AI Research (FAIR) speech team introduced the first fully convolutional speech recognition approach. Additionally, they have also open-sourced flashlight, a C++...

Our healthcare data is not private anymore: Study reveals that machine learning can be...

Last week, in a study published on JAMA Network Open, researchers revealed that machine learning algorithms trained with physical activity data collected from health...
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Facebook halted its project ‘Common Ground’ after Joel Kaplan, VP, public policy, raised concerns...

Wall street journal published a report yesterday that states Facebook had put a halt on its project named “common ground”, late summer, this year,...

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