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Wisconsin’s Understory raises $7.5 million for on-the-ground weather stations
Understory, a Madison, Wisconsin-based weather analytics company, announced today that it has raised $7.5 million in new funding. The round…
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Amazon Transcribe gains live audio transcription feature
Hot on the heels of newly introduced Comprehend services and ahead of the AWS ReInvent summit in Las Vegas later this month,…
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ApisProtect raises $1.8 million for bee-monitoring sensors
The worldwide honeybee community is in crisis. In the years leading up to 2013, over 10 million of the nearly…
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Purdue researchers use AI to predict students’ locations and friends from Wi-Fi data
Location-based check-ins reveal a lot about a person — and college students in particular, as it turns out. Researchers at…
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Google Chromecast can now sync music with Home speakers
Google Home speakers and Chromecasts can now be included in a Home audio group for music, podcasts, or audiobooks, a…
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Major AI conference is moving to Africa in 2020 due to visa issues
The International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), a major gathering of the community of researchers contributing to the advancement of…
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Alexa users can now make Skype calls
Microsoft announced in September that Skype calling would come to devices with Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant by the end of…
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AWS Comprehend gains Custom Entities and Custom Classification for training bespoke AI models
Amazon’s AWS ReInvent summit in Las Vegas might not kick off until later this month, but the Seattle company’s cloud…
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Amazon’s neural TTS can model speaking styles with only a few hours of recordings
Tired of Alexa’s staid, monotonous tone? Well, thanks to a new artificial intelligence (AI) technique, Amazon might soon be able…
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Enlight and Facetune creator Lightricks raises $60 million
The mobile app market is on the upswing, according to research firms like App Annie. Global downloads grew an estimated 15…
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