Why even the best tech couldn’t give us a precise inauguration headcount

 Alternative facts aside, attendance at President Trump’s inauguration was low. Citing crowd scientists from Manchester Metropolitan University in Britain,…

Kristen Stewart co-authored a paper on style transfer and the AI community lost its mind

 Hollywood and the academic artificial intelligence community have an interesting relationship, to say the least. Many…

Deepgram open sources Kur to make DIY deep learning less painful

 Deepgram, a YC backed startup using machine learning to analyze audio data for businesses, is open…

TellusLabs wants to help us better understand our planet

 If you’ve spent time following companies like Orbital Insight and Descartes Labs, you might assume the geospatial…

Neurala closes $14M Series A to bring machine learning to the edge

 Artificial intelligence is swiftly becoming a commodity thanks to the rise of AI-as-a-Service offerings from Amazon…

Udacity launches deep learning nanodegree foundation program

 Greater compute power and power efficiency has made deep learning algorithms ubiquitous in our world. Deep learning has found its way…

App.net, the ambitious project to build a better Twitter, is finally dead

 Aiming for the stars and not quite making it, the ambitious App.net has finally officially shut…

Kaggle hosting $1M competition to improve lung cancer detection with machine learning 

 Kaggle, the nearly ten year old startup that hosts competitions for data science aficionados, is hosting…