Month: October 2017
What can tech firms do to fight terror?
Image copyright PA The prime minister wants technology companies to do more to tackle extremist content on the web. They say it’s not as straightforward as it might sound. As so-called Islamic State faces defeat in the battlefield of the Middle East, British security officials know the online battle will increasingly take centre-stage. [AdSense-A] IS […]
Digital wealth manager Moneyfarm acquires tech behind fintech chatbot Ernest
Moneyfarm, the U.K.-headquartered “digital wealth manager,” has acquired the technology behind personal finance chatbot Ernest. Terms of the deal aren’t being disclosed, though I understand that, along with the tech, this is an acqui-hire of sorts, seeing London-based Ernest’s CTO Lorenzo Sicilia join Moneyfarm to oversee technology integration. Founded in 2015 by Niall Bellabarba, Cristoforo […]
Google Photos can now recognize the lovable faces of your cats and dogs
I wish this was one of the approximately 8,000 dog photos on my phone. Image: Ruud Lauritsen/Kennel Club/REX/Shutterstock Google knows that your phone holds untold gigabytes of snapshots of your favorite animal friends. So the search giant is making it even easier to group those pics all together. SEE ALSO: Why the iPhone 8 Plus […]
Facebook entered its AI into a Starcraft competition and it got smoked
Facebook will need to work on its Starcraft strat if it wants to compete with Google’s AI. The social giant quietly entered its artificial intelligence into an annual Starcraft: Brood War competition for AI bots on Sunday, Wired reports. But its hope of finding the same success as rival DeepMind was halted when a nasty swarm of […]
Tesla said to be working on its own self-driving AI chip with AMD
Tesla is reportedly developing its own processor for artificial intelligence, intended for use with its self-driving systems, in partnership with AMD. Tesla has an existing relationship with Nvidia, whose GPUs power its Autopilot system, but this new in-house chip reported by CNBC could potentially reduce its reliance on third-party AI processing hardware. AMD would help […]