Gigaom’s Structure Data conference is less than a month away, kicking off March 18 in New York. There are a lot of reasons to attend — great location, great networking, free drinks –… Read more »
Open the closet of any gadget geek or computer nerd, and you’re likely to find a lot of skeletons. Stacked deep in a cardboard box or Tupperware tub, there they are:… 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 »
The second-annual Structure Data Awards are here, where Gigaom picks the most-interesting and most-promising data startups that launched in the previous year. The winners, which range from a non-profit data science… Read more »
Microsoft announced the acquisition of Equivio, a provider of machine learning technology used to analyze documents for compliance and discovery. The company’s products have been used primarily in legal and regulated industries,… Read more »
Facebook on Friday open sourced a handful of software libraries that it claims will help users build bigger, faster deep learning models than existing tools allow. The libraries, which is… Read more »
New funding for deep learning startups focused on medical imaging suggests investors see more promise in the applications of deep learning than for the models themselves. Read more »
A new app called Warblr is able to identify a bird’s species by comparing sounds that users record in the field to a data set of previously recorded birdsong. Read more »
Recent comments by machine learning experts have caused a stir, but debate over the novelty or architecture of deep learning might be best left in academia . As AI techniques make… Read more »