It’s said that familiarity breeds contempt in personal relationships. In the NFL, it might also breed predictability. Although the New England Patriots and their coach Bill Belichick are often called unpredictable, it turns… Read more »
Google employs some of the world’s smartest researchers in deep learning and artificial intelligence, so it’s not a bad idea to listen to what they have to say about the space. One… Read more »
Pinterest announced Wednesday that it has acquired Kosei, a Palo Alto, California-based startup that focuses on machine learning for product recommendations. It’s a smart buy for Pinterest because the company’s path to… Read more »
Hadoop software company Cloudera has worked with Google to make Google’s Dataflow programming model run on Apache Spark. Dataflow, which Google announced as a cloud service in June, lets programmers write the same… Read more »
I take a lot of photos on my smartphone. So many, in fact, that my wife calls me Cellphone Ansel Adams. I can’t imagine how many more digital photos we’d have cluttering… Read more »
Smart devices, appliances and the internet of things are dominating International CES this week, but we’re probably just getting a small taste of what’s to come — not only in quantity, but… Read more »
There is no other way to put it: 2014 was a huge year for the big data market. It seems years of talk about what’s possible are finally giving way to some… Read more »
With the year nearly at an end, it seemed like a good time to take a look at which Gigaom posts generated the most traffic during 2014. The results speak for themselves: people really… Read more »
Hampton Creek, a San Francisco startup that uses advanced data analysis to develop eco-conscious, egg-free food products, has raised a $90 million series C round of venture from a collection of big-name… Read more »
Chinese search engine giant Baidu says it has developed a speech recognition system, called Deep Speech, the likes of which has never been seen, especially in noisy environments. In restaurant settings… Read more »