Adobe's CTO explains how it's competing with the rest of Silicon Valley for...
Adobe CTO Abhay Parasnis says that the company, most famous for tools like Photoshop and Illustrator, is different from its Silicon Valley peers when it comes to artificial intelligence.Where Facebook,...
View ArticleMicrosoft researchers used a laser to encode Warner Bros. 'Superman' on a...
Microsoft said its researchers stored the Warner Bros. film "Superman" on a piece of quartz glass the size of a coaster.The feat was a proof of concept for a years-long effort to store data in glass....
View ArticleMicrosoft president Brad Smith predicts AI will be as transformative to...
Microsoft president Brad Smith spoke about the societal implications of tech at the Web Summit conference in Lisbon on Wednesday. Touching on a range of topics ranging from human rights to neural...
View ArticleThe head of Microsoft's crucial new cloud AI team says that it can win...
Microsoft's AI cloud platform, Azure AI, is at the center of CEO Satya Nadella's vision for the future of Microsoft.The platform has 20,000 customers, and more than 85% of Fortune 100 companies have...
View ArticleThis $200 AI toothbrush was the most fun I've ever had brushing my teeth
Oral hygiene company Oral-B released a new electric toothbrush that uses AI to improve brushing.The toothbrush tracks brushing patterns to give specific feedback when users brush too hard, or miss...
View ArticleEU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager says there's 'no limit' to how...
Margrethe Vestager, the European Commissioner for Competition, offered a highly optimistic assessment of AI's potential impact on society, saying she sees "no limit to how AI can support what we do as...
View ArticleFarmers are using AI to spot pests and catch diseases — and many believe it’s...
Farmers are using artificial intelligence to help grow food by combatting disease and pests, oftentimes made worse by climate change, pesticide use, and monocropping.Drones and other robots equipped...
View ArticleInvestors just poured more than $1 billion into startups using AI to tackle...
The deal count for VC-backed healthcare deals is on pace to reach an all-time high, according to the latest third quarter report from CB Insights. Investments in AI companies has grown exponentially in...
View ArticleThe CEO of $67 billion Intuit has a plan to stop AI from killing jobs: Use...
Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi says its a "myth" that artificial intelligence will be a job killer. He thinks people will need to develop new skill sets for new types of jobs. "AI is going to automate a lot...
View ArticleThe godfather of the self-driving car shares his bold, AI-driven vision for...
Sebastian Thrun — the CEO of KittyHawk, cofounder of Udacity, and pioneer of Google's first self-driving car — delivered a keynote address at the Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition &...
View ArticleMicrosoft is losing a key AI exec during a crucial moment that could shape...
Harry Shum, the Microsoft executive charged with overseeing the artificial intelligence strategy for the entire company, is leaving after 23 years.Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Kevin Scott has...
View ArticleA top Facebook VR exec is stepping down as Oculus CTO to become a 'Victorian...
The Oculus executive John Carmack is leaving his post as chief technology officer to work on artificial intelligence.The legendary game programmer is stepping away from his position at the top of...
View ArticleFrom 'Jeopardy' to poker to reading comprehension, robots have managed to...
Thanks to leaps and bounds in the field of artificial intelligence in the past decade, robots are increasingly beating humans at our own games.AI-powered programs have proven their prowess at...
View ArticleThe next 10 years of Apple will include self-driving cars, computer glasses,...
For the past 10-plus years, Apple has made billions of dollars by manufacturing and selling the iPhone.But what's next, after the iPhone? That's the big question.Apple has a few major projects in the...
View ArticleSalesforce just announced a bunch of new tools to help businesses know...
Salesforce is doubling down on its goal of helping businesses get a "360 degree view" of their customers with new announcements at its annual Dreamforce mega-conference in San Francisco. The key...
View ArticleAI is coming for white-collar tech jobs. Here's what that will mean for your...
White-collar, college-educated workers in business, tech, and finance are at greatest risk of having artificial intelligence impact their jobs, according to a new study from Brookings. The report...
View ArticleBill Gates says that the only way to hire and keep AI talent is to let them...
Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates appeared onstage for Bloomberg's New Economy Forum in Beijing on Thursday, and spoke out against protectionism in artificial intelligence research. The US and China have...
View ArticleMost plastic is not getting recycled, and AI robots could be a solution
Only a small fraction of the garbage the world produces each year gets recycled— about 16%— and that number has gotten even smaller in the past year.About one-fourth of items that are put in recycling...
View ArticleFacebook is staffing up its 'Conversational AI' team as it prepares to take...
Facebook is bulking up its team working to build an AI assistant to rival Amazon's Alexa and Apple's Siri.The company is hiring for a number of technical roles as it attempts to build out its expertise...
View ArticleA Google veteran who's been with the company for 14 years reveals the biggest...
The biggest improvement coming to Google's search engine in the next 10 years is likely to be an ability to understand context and the intention behind your query, said Daniel M. Russell, a senior...
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