Making use of the possibilities offered by AI, but at the same time applying a clear set of rules to prevent misuse. This is what the European Union hopes to meet with a comprehensive plan, with a focus on transparency. The use of AI through, for example, facial recognition and data collection s... Read more
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Google announces that it has officially completed the acquisition of Looker. The acquisition of 2.6 billion dollars (2.3 billion euros) was awaiting approval from a British regulator. In June 2019, Google announced that it was taking over the business intelligence (BI) provider, with the immedia... Read more
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Refinitiv, provider of data on financial markets, will offer its dataset Tick History on Google Cloud Platform. Users will be able to use Google's BigQuery to search that dataset. The dataset Tick History is a collection of historical day-to-day financial data dating back to January 1996. Think ... Read more
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Optical sensors such as cameras and lidar (LIght Detection And Ranging) have become an important part of modern robotics for spatial recognition. However, there is one drawback, and that is that transparent objects, such as glasses or bottles, tend to 'confuse' the sensors. Google claims to have a ... Read more
4 years ago
Blue Prism has launched a number of new tools to expand its cloud capabilities. The new services are made possible by Thoughtonomy, acquired in 2019. The tools fall under the Blue Prism Cloud, the offer of the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) vendor which is made for connections to cloud platfor... Read more
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In order to find out whether an AI model makes fair predictions, data scientists must be able to study the short-term effects of AI, but also the long-term effects. This is now made possible by Google with the ML-fairness-gym, a number of components which, together, can simulate the operation of al... Read more
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Dataiku has told Techzine about the introduction of the Dataiku Community, which is intended for professionals in data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). With the Dataiku Community, the data science-unicorn brings different resources together. For example, users will hav... Read more
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Scape Technologies, a startup specialised in computer vision, has in all likelihood been taken over by Facebook. TechCrunch reports that the top level of the company has been replaced by Facebook employees and that it owns more than 75 percent of the shares. The takeover would have been accompan... Read more
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Facebook's research division has open-sourced the code for PyTorch3D. PyTorch 3d is a toolkit designed to improve the development of artificial intelligence (AI) models that can work in three-dimensional environments. The ability of AI models to understand 3D spaces is essential for certain appl... Read more
4 years ago
Over ten thousand dollars per Bitcoin was the cryptocurrency exchange rate last weekend. Today, the rate dropped slightly to 9857 dollars per Bitcoin, but on Sunday, the crypto currency reached its highest rate since September 2019. All thanks to the corona virus in China. Due to the corona viru... Read more
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