Artificial Intelligence
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Trends
Babysitter screening app Predictim uses AI to sniff out bullies
If you’re a parent with young kids, you probably know how arduous it can be to screen a babysitter. According…
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Researchers claim AI can diagnose Parkinson’s disease from smartphone data
Parkinson’s disease, a neurodegenerative disorder that affects movement, impacts more than ten million people worldwide; roughly 60,000 are diagnosed each…
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Social intelligence platforms Brandwatch and Crimson Hexagon to merge
Brandwatch — the UK-HQ’d social intelligence company that raised $65 million from European VCs Nauta Capital, Highland Europe and Partech…
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Amazon launches skill connections for Alexa apps
Amazon’s Alexa assistant can do lots of things, like play your favorite song when you walk into a room and…
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STARTUPS
Iron Ox opens its first fully autonomous farm
For the last two and a half years, Iron Ox has been working on perfecting its agricultural robots to tend…
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Here are the companies that pitched in Startup Battlefield MENA
Today in lovely Beirut, Lebanon TechCrunch held its first Startup Battlefield in the country. Over 700 people watched the show…
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Hopper raises $100M more for its AI-based travel app, now valued at $780M
Hopper — a mobile-only travel booking app cofounded by a former Expedia executive in Montreal, Canada that uses artificial intelligence to…
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Unbiased algorithms can still be problematic
Creating unbiased, accurate algorithms isn’t impossible — it’s just time consuming. Algorithms are sets of rules that computers follow in…
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