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Spiketrap raises $3 million for AI-based social media intelligence platform
Venture Beat - 1 Jul 2020 15:00
Spiketrap has raised $3 million for its AI platform that helps brands understand how they are engaging with consumers on social media.
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Forbes - 1 Jul 2020 19:19Stanford AI researchers introduce LILAC, reinforcement learning for dynamic environments
Venture Beat - 1 Jul 2020 19:08
Stanford AI Lab (SAIL) researchers created an AI technique called LILAC to allow reinforcement learning algorithms to operate in dynamic environments.
Pudu Technology raises $15 million for 'contact-free' autonomous delivery robots
Venture Beat - 1 Jul 2020 16:42
Pudu Technology, a Shenzhen-based startup designing robots for hospitals, restaurants, and offices, today announced it raised $15 million.
Learn how to accelerate your business using automation and AI technology: Transform 2020
Venture Beat - 1 Jul 2020 21:51
No one expected the jolt the Covid-19 pandemic would bring to business. If companies were already investing in automation and AI technologies before March 2020, they have only accelerated those investments since. With le...
Google brings its AI-powered SmartReply to YouTube
Venture Beat - 1 Jul 2020 19:31
Google announced SmartReply, its AI-powered technology that recommends replies to comments, is now available on YouTube for creators.
Worms Rumble ditches turn-based combat for real-time action
Venture Beat - 1 Jul 2020 20:50
Team17 announced Worms Rumble today, the latest installment in the long-running franchise. A PC beta will start on July 15.
Voicemod raises $8 million for silly or serious voice filters in games
Venture Beat - 1 Jul 2020 16:00
Voicemod has raised $8 million to expand its business of offering voice filters that people can use to change their voices in video games or virtual worlds.
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Forbes - 1 Jul 2020 21:36Facebook advances VR rendering quality with neural 4--4 supersampling
Venture Beat - 1 Jul 2020 19:51
A research team has come up with a way to teach computers how to transform low-res 3D renders into high-resolution versions suitable for live VR viewing.
Xbox Summer Game Fest Demo Event begins July 21 for unreleased indies
Venture Beat - 1 Jul 2020 19:04
The Xbox Summer Game Fest Demo Event is kicking off July 21 with early playable teases for between 75-and-100 unreleased games.
What if Facebook can't be fixed?
Venture Beat - 1 Jul 2020 18:35
A boycott organized by the Stop Hate For Profit Coalition is pressuring Facebook to embrace 10 reforms. But the real problems are too fundamental to fix.
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Forbes - 1 Jul 2020 17:50The urgency to defeat ACH transfer fraud (VB Live)
Venture Beat - 1 Jul 2020 16:50
As ACH transfers have increased, accelerated by the pandemic, so has ACH fraud. Now Nacha has launched new account validation requirements,
Salesforce researchers claim new method mitigates AI models' gender bias
Venture Beat - 1 Jul 2020 15:30
A new paper from researchers at Salesforce proposes a technique for mitigating gender bias in word embeddings from large data sets.
5 things to know before the stock market opens Wednesday
CNBC - 1 Jul 2020 15:10
Dow futures erase their losses and turn higher Wednesday on positive results from a coronavirus vaccine trial.
Why Mike DeLaet gave up the CEO job at Rogue Games to be an exec at Scopely
Venture Beat - 1 Jul 2020 15:00
Mike DeLaet left his job as CEO of game publisher Rogue Games to be senior vice president of strategic partnerships at Scopely.
Trivia Royale game tops Apple's App Store with 2 million downloads
Venture Beat - 1 Jul 2020 14:30
The title has been downloaded more than 2 million times and has been No. 1 in the iOS App Store for a few days -- even ahead of free app leader TikTok.
TuSimple plans autonomous truck network backed by UPS
Venture Beat - 1 Jul 2020 14:00
TuSimple announced the launch of a nationwide -- and eventually global -- autonomous freight network that might someday transport goods in 48 U.S. states.
The best CBD oil for pain in 2020
Venture Beat - 1 Jul 2020 13:10
CBD has seen a huge surge in popularity in the last few years, mainly due to its ache-relieving and anti-inflammatory effects on the human body.
Facebook ad boycott kicks off as last-ditch talks fail
Venture Beat - 1 Jul 2020 12:27
Ads for more than 400 brands, including Coca-Cola and Starbucks, are due to vanish from Facebook after last-ditch talks to stop a boycott failed.