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Rebooting AI: Deep learning, meet knowledge graphs
Gary Marcus, a prominent figure in AI, is on a mission to instill a breath of fresh air to a…
Business
Pinecone, a serverless vector database for machine learning, leaves stealth with $10M funding
Machine learning applications understand the world through vectors. Pinecone, a specialized cloud database for vectors,…
2021 technology trend review, part two: AI, knowledge graphs, and the COVID-19 effect
AI chips, MLOps, and ethics. Knowledge, and Graphs. COVID-19 as a mixed bag for technological…
Trailblaizing end-to-end AI application development for the edge: Blaize releases AI Studio
You might not know it by reading this news, but Blaize is an AI chip…
Fluree, the graph database with blockchain inside, goes open source
A hitherto under the radar graph database that uses blockchain to support data lineage and…
The state of AI in 2020: Biology and healthcare’s AI moment, ethics, predictions, and graph neural networks
Research and industry breakthroughs, ethics, and predictions. This is what AI looks like today, and…
The state of AI in 2020: Democratization, industrialization, and the way to artificial general intelligence
From fit for purpose development to pie in the sky research, this is what AI…
Technical
IOTA is bringing smart contracts with zero fees, Ethereum interoperability, and compatibility for next-gen distributed apps
IOTA is unveiling its smart contracts, with a clear onboarding path and many interesting features…
DeepMind is developing one algorithm to rule them all
DeepMind wants to enable neural networks to emulate algorithms to get the best of both…
Open source backend as a service Appwrite gets $10M seed funding to commercialize traction
Appwrite, an open source platform that offers a slew of features to developers, aims to…
Machine learning at the edge: A hardware and software ecosystem
Being able to deploy machine learning applications at the edge bears the promise of unlocking…
DeepMind aims to marry deep learning and classic algorithms
Will deep learning really live up to its promise? We don’t actually know. But if…
Socio-Technical
NBA analytics: Going data pro
For the NBA, like every other sports league, awards are important. They can generate attention,…
Advertising data going forward: Transparency and scale
The problem with advertising data and what to do about it. Plus, the future of…
DataOps: Changing the world one organization at a time
Uncertain about the benefits of going data-driven? Not sure how to get there? Here’s some…
Planet analytics: big data, sustainability, and environmental impact
What is the relation between big data applications and sustainability? What is the net effect…
Please wait while your future trickles down: innovation, asymmetry and evolution
If you believe the technologists, the future is around the corner and it’s going to…
Media hype and moral panic: fake news and populism in the Netherlands
What led towards an election result that did not live up to Geert Vilders’ hopes…
Use Cases
Disrupting insurance: data-driven customer value
Why hasn’t the insurance business been disrupted yet, and how could data be used to…
Googling prescriptive analytics: YouTube recommendations and the analytics continuum
Understanding prescriptive analytics is complicated, let alone implementation. Would turning to Google help? Seeing how…