CEO Lisa Su: AMD to Increase Artificial Intelligence Profile
The Hot Chips 31 Symposium started this week. AI (artificial intelligence) was the hot topic among participants Intel (INTC), NVIDIA (NVDA), and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). The stocks of these three chip companies...
Carnegie Mellon and Oregon State team wins first leg of DARPA Subterranean Challenge robot...
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) kicked off the Subterranean Challenge in December 2017, with the goal of equipping future warfighters and first responders with tools to rapidly map, navigate, and...
Ruffle project hopes to resurrect Flash Player
The imminent demise of Abobe’s Flash Player, once the standard for displaying rich media in a browser, has inspired a project dubbed Ruffle, to preserve the legacy of Flash. Ruffle uses the Rust...
CEIPAL Study Concludes Artificial Intelligence is the Future of Recruitment
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Aug. 22, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- CEIPAL, a SaaS platform for the front and...
Amazon’s voice-synthesizing AI mimics shifts in tempo, pitch, and volume
Voice assistants like Alexa convert written words into speech using text-to-speech systems, the most capable of which tap AI to verbalize from scratch rather than stringing together prerecorded snippets of sounds. Neural text-to-speech...
Remediant raises $15 million to help companies manage privileged access
Remediant, a San Francisco- and Fort Worth-based provider of privileged account management software, today announced that it has raised $15 million in a series A funding round led by Dell Technologies Capital and...
10 Splunk alternatives for log analysis
Quick! Name a log analysis service. If the first word that popped out of your mouth was “Splunk,” you’re far from alone.But Splunk’s success has spurred many others to up their log-analysis game,...
What If Artificial Intelligence Becomes Ransomware’s Sidekick?
First time since 2013 we have witnessed a decrease in ransomware activity, with the overall number of ransomware infections on endpoints dropping by 20%. However, ransomware like WannaCry, copycat...
Amazon Forecast hits general availability
Forecasting events at scale given a set of variables is a capability most companies would find useful, for obvious reasons. Fortunately for them, Amazon’s made the science of prediction more accessible with a...