Facebook’s early Portal prototypes swiveled to see video subjects
Researchers improve robots’ speech recognition by modeling human auditory processing
Nvidia CEO foresees a great year for PC gaming laptops
Nvidia’s $2.21 billion in Q4 revenue helps erase previous stock loss
Machine love: 4 ways AI is helping humans on Valentine’s Day
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Tesla’s new ‘sentry mode’ camera security feels more like a hack than a real feature
Sight Diagnostics raises $27.8 million to apply AI to blood tests
OpenAI let us try its state-of-the-art NLP text generator
Catapult Ventures launches with $55 million seed fund for AI startups
Here Technologies to fund a $28 million research institute that applies machine learning to geolocation data
Pinpoint raises $13.5 million to bring data analytics to software development
Google Play Store app rejections went up 55% last year
Affinity raises $26.5 million to manage relationships with machine learning
Slack launches Block Kit to make it easier to build apps
China is building a 5G smart highway for autonomous cars and AI traffic monitoring
Amazon Echo owners can now add their own voice apps to the Alexa Skills Store
Adobe rolls out new Experience Manager with Smart Tags for video, Visual Search, Smart Crop, and more
Xnor.ai debuts edge AI that runs on solar power
Elroy Air raises $9.2 million for delivery drones that can carry up to 500 pounds
InfluxData raises $60 million for time-series database software
Ex-Googler Alon Chen’s Tastewise uses AI to identify and predict food trends
Driverless truck startup TuSimple raises $95 million at $1 billion valuation
Tableau’s Ask Data feature uses NLP to answer sales questions
May Mobility raises $22 million to deploy autonomous shuttles in cities across the U.S.
Mozilla and Ubisoft partner on AI coding assistant Clever-Commit
AI guides single-camera drone through hallways it’s never seen before
IBM opens Watson AI to public and private clouds
Datadog acquires French AI-powered app-testing startup Madumbo
Web data extraction startup Import.io acquires Connotate to bolster its IP and customer base
ShiftLeft raises $20 million for code analysis software that automatically patches vulnerabilities
LinkedIn previews shared InMails, Instant Job Notifications, and other features coming summer 2019
Jumio Authentication uses selfies to authenticate users
Second Measure raises $20 million to analyze companies’ sales and growth rates
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