What’s new Facebook announces social VR concepts, cheaper standalone VR headset, and a lot more at Oculus Connect Mark Zuckerberg showed off the firm’s first attempt at social software for the Oculus Rift headset at the Oculus Connect conference in San Francisco. The new software allows people to join the same virtual space, and do…
What’s new Samsung makes a major move into the AI assistant space The company confirmed it has agreed to terms with Viv, an AI assistant co-founded by Siri’s creators. What makes Viv unique among today’s voice assistant is that it’s designed to work across apps and services. The assistant also allows for more conversational queries…
What’s new Google, Microsoft, Twitter and Apple say they have not scanned emails like Yahoo Yahoo is under scrutiny today after former employees claimed the company designed custom software to enable U.S. intelligence agencies to scan incoming emails to all of Yahoo’s millions of users. Other major tech companies were quick to distance themselves from…
What’s new Google Event: you can expect hardware, AI and VR announcements today Over the past few months, we’ve heard plenty of rumors and several leaks about new gadgets from Google. Thankfully, we won’t have to wait much longer to learn about what the company really has in store. The biggest announcement is expected to…
What’s new Apple loses patent retrial, owes $302.4 million to VirnetX Apple has been ordered to pay $302.4 million to the patent holding and security software company VirnetX for infringing patents covering secure computer and mobile communications. A jury in Tyler, Texas, found that Apple infringed on two patents related to its FaceTime videoconferencing application.…
Important announcements Google introduces neural machine learning to improve translation, approach human-level accuracy Though Google Translate is one of the most powerful language translation tools, the company still thinks there’s room for major improvement. And it is now working towards creating a model which can translate phrases from one language to another automatically. Much like…
What’s new Google opens up its machine learning tricks to all Google’s Cloud Machine Learning has gone into its public beta. The program is meant to let businesses to train quality machine learning models at a faster rate and otherwise use all the advancements made in Machine learning to their advantage. To facilitate adoption, the…
What’s new Google, Facebook and other tech titans form ‘Partnership on AI’ This is a nonprofit organization to increase understanding of AI technologies and formulate best practices. Members of the Partnership on AI (Amazon.com, Facebook, Google, IBM, and Microsoft ) will conduct and publish research under an open source license in areas such as ethics,…
What’s new Google introduces neural machine learning to improve translation, approach human-level accuracy Though Google Translate is one of the most powerful language translation tools, the company still thinks there’s room for major improvement. And it is now working towards creating a model which can translate phrases from one language to another automatically. Much like…
What’s new Twitter acquisition: So far the bidders are Google, Salesforce, Disney and Microsoft Close on the heels of Yahoo and LinkedIn acquisitions, the buzz is around another high profile buyout. The speculations are rife that Twitter, the micro-blogging site struggling to generate revenue and increase active members, may soon be acquired. This acquisition may…
