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Chinese smartphone makers are winning in India -- the fastest growing market
Venture Beat - 1 Sep 2018 21:10
GUEST: As the world watches Apple move to refresh the $1,000 iPhone X this month, India, as always, is expected to show very little interest in the Apple’s new offering. Not because it doesn’t like smartphones — it...
Genevieve Bell interview: How we see the next 50 years of technology
Venture Beat - 1 Sep 2018 19:25
Intel turned 50 years old this year, and the biggest maker of PC chips has helped drive amazing progress in that time. If cars had seen the same improvements microprocessors have, your vehicle would be able to go 300,000...
AiServe is developing assistive AI that 'learns to walk like a human'
Venture Beat - 1 Sep 2018 19:24
AiServe wants to use computer vision and natural language processing to help visually impaired people navigate busy cities.
Talking Tom: Managing a franchise with 8 billion downloads
Venture Beat - 1 Sep 2018 17:45
When Talking Tom developer Outfit7 was sold to a Chinese company in January 2017 for $1 billion, it might have easily been seen as the peak. Talking Tom debuted in 2010 as a silly iPhone app that mimicked what kids told ...
Crowdsourcing in the age of artificial intelligence: How the crowd will train machines
Venture Beat - 1 Sep 2018 16:15
GUEST: It was over 10 years ago that I was introduced to the concept of crowdsourcing. I was a student at London Business School when a professor one day came into the classroom with a jar of pennies. He asked us each to...
Age of Sail is Google's next gorgeous VR spotlight story
Venture Beat - 1 Sep 2018 12:34
Google's Spotlight Story series of gorgeously animated 360-degree videos has produced some of the best-looking experiences you can have inside a VR headset. Its latest entry, Age of Sail, is no exception. The trailer for...
Baidu launches EZDL, an AI model training platform that requires no coding experience
Venture Beat - 1 Sep 2018 10:07
Baidu's EZDL is an online tool that allows folks without coding knowledge to generate, optimize, and deploy machine learning models. It's available in beta.
Microsoft releases new Windows 10 preview without performance visualizations in the Game bar
Venture Beat - 1 Sep 2018 06:52
Microsoft has released Windows 10 build 17751 from the RS5 branch. The changes include 12 bug fixes and one feature being removed.
Apple says one of its self-driving cars was rear-ended
Venture Beat - 1 Sep 2018 02:56
(Reuters) — An Apple self-driving car was rear-ended while merging onto an expressway near the company's Silicon Valley headquarters this month, the company said in an accident report posted on Friday that confirmed th...