BROWSING: AI

Reality Check: Artificial, virtual and insecure things are stories to watch at CES 2017

CES 2017 is set to showcase emerging technologies like augmented reality, virtual reality and artificial intelligence and have a focus on IoT security. New types of artificial intelligence, the insecurity of things, virtual and augmented reality, and growth in service businesses will...

Greenwave adds AI-powered language tool, targets network providers

Greenwave Systems yesterday announced it integrated the Nuance Communications Mix voice and AI-powered natural language understanding (NLU) technologies as part of its AXON Platform for managed services. The solutions offered by the partnership will target networking and communications service providers with the hope of providing the ability to...

Analyst Angle: MIT’s MoVR device sheds light on our wireless AI future

Recent breakthroughs in AI and wireless connectivity highlight an interesting future. Everything that was previously considered fiction is now becoming reality. So much so that the modern populace seems to think nothing is impossible anymore. Among the gargantuan trend shifts and technological...

Uber purchases AI startup, creates machine learning lab

Uber is rapidly acquiring startups as it gears up for a future filled with autonomous ride-hailing vehicles. Yesterday, the company announced the purchase of an artificial intelligence startup Geometric Intelligence to provide the core for a new central AI lab being established in Uber’s...

Uber purchases AI startup, creates machine learning lab

Uber is rapidly acquiring startups as it gears up for a future filled with autonomous ride-hailing vehicles. Yesterday, the company announced the purchase of an artificial intelligence startup Geometric Intelligence to provide the core for a new central AI lab being established in Uber’s...

Machine learning is leading the way to a smarter internet of things

What is machine learning and what can it do? You step into the tennis section of your local sports store looking for a new racket when a notification alerts you of a coupon on Wilson products. Something must have picked up your location along with...

Machine learning is leading the way to a smarter internet of things

What is machine learning and what can it do? You step into the tennis section of your local sports store looking for a new racket when a notification alerts you of a coupon on Wilson products. Something must have picked up your location along with...

Kagan: IBM World of Watson left me breathless

After attending this year’s IBM World of Watson event in Las Vegas a few weeks ago, I was both stunned and overwhelmed by the advancements in artificial intelligence and cognitive. I have written about IBM and Watson several times over the last few years,...

Qualcomm teams with Samsung, Intel AI … chip news for 11/18

Connecting everything: news bytes for 11/18 1. Samsung will manufacture Qualcomm's newest processor, the Snapdragon 835. Samsung says it will be the first chipmaker to enter mass production of 10 nanometer FinFET technology. FinFET is a 3D chip manufacturing technology expected to become a new...

Kagan: Will AI save the Samsung master brand?

The Samsung master brand seems to be exploding or imploding or something. What’s going on over there? We have all seen and admired the amazing growth story of the Samsung brand in many different industries. This has been a company firing on all cylinders. However,...

Meet the world’s most intelligent smart building: The Edge in Amsterdam

World's most intelligent smart building Twenty-eight thousand sensors. That is how many it takes to create the world's smartest, most environmentally friendly building: The Edge. An office building in Amsterdam whose main tenant is consulting firm Deloitte, has been rated the most environmentally sustainable smart...

Meet the world’s most intelligent smart building: The Edge in Amsterdam

World's most intelligent smart building Twenty-eight thousand sensors. That is how many it takes to create the world's smartest, most environmentally friendly building: The Edge. An office building in Amsterdam whose main tenant is consulting firm Deloitte, has been rated the most environmentally sustainable smart...

Huawei signs AI research agreement with UC Berkeley

The Chinese vendor will provide funding for AI research through its Noah’s Ark Lab Chinese ICT services provider Huawei has entered a strategic partnership with the University of California--Berkeley to carry out basic research into artificial intelligence (AI). Under the partnership, Huawei will provide a $1...

5G will require cooperative approaches to spectrum sharing – EC

5G will require new approaches to spectrum sharing, in particular in bands below 6GHz, and could see vertical industries become MVNOs. The November 2015 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC15) came to the conclusion that IMT2020, that is 5G, will require spectrum allocations below 6 GHz and above...

Ingenu deploys LPWA IoT network in South Africa

U.S.-based Ingenu has deployed a LPWA IoT network in South Africa, and announced a new smart city platform. Ingenu announced the deployment of a Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) Internet of Things (IoT) network using the company’s proprietary Random Phase Multiple Access (RPMA) technology in...

5G deployment worth $127 billion per year to EU countries

A new European Commission-supported study details the expected costs and benefits of 5G deployment in the European Union’s 28 member states. The cost of 5G deployment in the European Union’s (EU) 28 member states could reach €56 billion ($63 billion) in 2020, according to a...

Elon Musk just revealed his biggest epiphany of the year

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed his "biggest epiphany of 2016:" what really matters in production are the machines building the machines. In an interview with Y Combinator's Sam Altman, Musk said that creating the machines that are to build Tesla automobiles is at least...

Elon Musk just revealed his biggest epiphany of the year

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed his "biggest epiphany of 2016:" what really matters in production are the machines building the machines. In an interview with Y Combinator's Sam Altman, Musk said that creating the machines that are to build Tesla automobiles is at least...

Deutsche Telekom connected home platform to integrate with Amazon Alexa app

Amazon said Alexa, Echo and the Echo Dot services are available in Germany and the United Kingdom German operator Deutsche Telekom (DT) confirmed its non-proprietary platform for connected homes Qivicom will be integrated with the Alexa app from Amazon. With this new service customers will soon...

Fujitsu launches sensor-based flood detection solution

Fujitsu's new sensor-based sewer system flood detection solution promises both higher efficiency and lower deployment costs. Amid high levels of urbanization and repetitive torrential downpours, Japanese ICT company Fujitsu announced it will start selling in Japan a sewer system flood detection solution, which aims to minimize...

Analyst Angle: Why artificial intelligence is important to mobile

Artificial intelligence has progressed significantly over the past several decades, and looks set to be a boon for the mobile space Mobile systems are relying more on cloud-based services that, themselves, are becoming more intelligent. Machine intelligence is now able to learn from experience and...