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Chainlink 2.0 brings off-chain compute to blockchain oracles, promotes adoption of hybrid smart contracts
A new whitepaper just released by leading blockchain oracle service Chainlink lays the foundation for new capabilities for application and…
Business
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…
Hybrid AI through data, space, time, and industrial applications: Beyond Limits scores $113M Series C to scale up
Machine learning approaches to AI alone don’t cut it. Good old-fashioned AI alone does not…
Technical
The State of AI in 2021: Language models, healthcare, ethics, and AI agnosticism
Takeaways from an action-packed 2021 for AI: Healthcare is just getting started with its AI…
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…
Socio-Technical
Going data-driven on a budget
How can you think and do data analysis globally, aiming to act and have an…
Who’s automating the enterprise? Meet Amelia and the future of work
Imagine all enterprise functions automated by software and performed through a single point of access,…
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Keep on Uberin the free world
Uber is still operating in London, in you case you did not notice. Uber will…
Will the real Elon Musk please stand up? Autonomous bots and synthesized speech in the public domain
The ability to create virtual clones that appear to think and talk like the real…
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…