IBM And Influential Launch AI-enabled Social Targeting Solution To Help Brands Identify Suitable Influencers
IBM announced the launch of Watson Advertising Social Targeting with Influential, a new solution that harnesses artificial intelligence (AI) to help brands identify influencers that best align with their brand values. The new solution within the Watson Advertising suite of targeting products marks an expanded collaboration with Influential, a leader in advanced social media technology. As brands …
“AI Inside” Platform Enables Business Agility And Digital Transformation, Empowering Carriers’ Business Success
At the “Service and Software Enable Business Success” session of Huawei’s Better World Summit 2020, participants from carrier customers, partners and industry analysts convened virtually to share how AI makes networks and operations smarter and more efficient in future-oriented operations, helping carriers achieve digital transformation and business success. Bill Tang, President of Huawei’s Global Technical …
Potential COVID-19 Vaccines Get A Boost From Machine Learning
After what has started to feel like a boundless eternity of wearing masks, bathing in hand sanitizer, and dodging people in the grocery store, many of us have been left thinking: what would a COVID-19 vaccine look like? Different approaches to the challenge have looked at targeting the so-called “spike proteins” that cover the virus …
Intel RealSense Technology Selected By RightHand Robotics to Revolutionize Automated Order Fulfillment
Due to the global pandemic, this year’s e-commerce sales are on the rise. Growth in online retail has placed increased pressure on warehouses to keep up with higher volumes of orders and with social-distancing protocols that have restricted the number of staff allowed on-site. Massachusetts-based RightHand Robotics addresses these challenges with its RightPick2 robot, powered …
Rewriting History To Show The Danger Of Deepfakes
Can you recognize a digitally manipulated video when you see one? It’s harder than most people realize. As the technology to produce realistic “deepfakes” becomes more easily available, distinguishing fact from fiction will only get more challenging. A new digital storytelling project from CSAIL researcher D. Fox Harrell aims to educate the public about the world …
A Facebook-scale Simulator To Detect Harmful Behaviors
For large-scale social networks, testing a proposed code update or new feature is a complex and challenging task. In person and also online, people act and interact with one another in ways that are sometimes difficult for traditional algorithms to model or replicate. People’s behavior evolves and adapts over time and is different from one …
UC Berkeley To Lead $25 Million Quantum Computing Center
As part of the federal government’s effort to speed the development of quantum computers, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the University of California, Berkeley, $25 million over five years to establish a multi-university institute focused on advancing quantum science and engineering and training a future workforce to build and use quantum computers. The …
Stanford Scientists Anticipate The Mars 2020 Rover Launch
Despite a global pandemic and some technical delays, NASA’s 2020 Mars Rover – the aptly named Perseverance – is scheduled to launch this summer (currently slated for July 30) on a groundbreaking endeavor. Traveling from Earth to Mars is best done when the planets orbit nearest one another, providing only a narrow window of opportunity …
Cloud, AI, And 5G Are Already Reshaping The Oil And Gas Industry — Huawei Drives The Intelligent Transformation Of The Sector
The Huawei Oil & Gas Virtual Summit 2020 — exploring ‘Data to Barrel’ — was successfully hosted online. The summit gathered together global customers, industry partners, and thought leaders — including representatives from the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), Schlumberger SIS, and the former Chief Information Officer (CIO) of French giant TOTAL — to …
Singapore Researchers Look To Intel Neuromorphic Computing To Help Enable Robots That ‘Feel’
Two researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS), who are members of the Intel Neuromorphic Research Community (INRC), presented new findings demonstrating the promise of event-based vision and touch sensing in combination with Intel’s neuromorphic processing for robotics. The work highlights how bringing a sense of touch to robotics can significantly improve capabilities and …