The new algorithms enabling Facebook’s data fixation

 A billion and a half photos find their way onto Facebook every single day and the…

Matroid can watch videos and detect anything within them

 If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video is worth that times the frame…

Pit.ai puts a financial twist on reinforcement learning to outperform hedge funds

 Despite mystery and intrigue, the reality is that most hedge funds don’t make money. This hasn’t stopped a…

SirionLabs establishes US foothold to scale its NLP contract management software

 SirionLabs, a startup providing vendor management software to enterprises, is adding a US headquarters to its…

Galvanize will teach students how to use IBM Watson APIs with new machine learning course

 As part of IBM’s annual InterConnect conference in Las Vegas, the company is announcing a new…

500 Startups will keep investing in Latin America with new $10M fund

 500 Startups is increasing its commitment to global investing with a new Latin America fund, targeting $10…

Google partners with VCs to host its own machine learning startup competition

 On the heels of acquiring data science community Kaggle, Google is launching a machine learning competition…

Astro raises an $8 million Series A for its AI-powered email solution for teams

 On the surface, Astro, launching its public beta today, is a nifty but not completely necessary…