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IBM Watson Group acquires AlchemyAPI, Machine Learning Capabilities is the Focus
IBM Watson, which was famous after beating three Jeopardy! champions a few years, has bought the Denver-based AlchemyAPI. Explaining why this purchase was made, Stephen Gold, VP at IBM Watson Group, says, “From a technology perspective, AlchemyAPI’s deep learning platform will augment Watson’s ability to identify information hierarchies and understand relationships between people, places and…
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Everywear Games will make games exclusively for wearable devices, says CEO Aki Järvilehto
While Rovio might grab headlines in Finland for games such as Angry Bird and Supercell, it’s hard not to notice startups that are springing up to capitalize on the second boom that the country’s computer game industry is experiencing. In this case, it’s Everywear Games, which is based in Helsinki and comprises executives from a…
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Azure Machine Learning now available for us, announces Microsoft
Microsoft, at the Strata conference, has announced that the Azure Machine Learning service for big data in the cloud is now available for use. Also, other announcements were made pertaining to enhancements of the platform, given that its Beta was released in June 2014. Joseph Sirosh, vice president at Microsoft, and in charge of Azure…
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Apple conducting R&D on an Electric Car, Reveals WSJ
Apple, according to the Wall Street Journal, is building an electric car which resembles a minivan very closely. The newspaper also reveals that Tim Cook had approved of the project almost a year ago. Led by Apple VP (and Ford Motors veteran) Steve Zadesky, the project has a number of staff members who are shouldering…
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Microsoft releasing a new browser ‘Spartan’, Window 10 Consumer Preview Slated for January
Microsoft is building a new browser codenamed ‘Spartan’ that is lightweight and might be released with Windows 10. For that matter, Internet Explorer has been around for a while, and which started with zero market share only to dominate the market in a short span of time. Of course, thanks to Firefox, it has faced…
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Bill Gates drinks purified water from human waste in video, technology to be used in Senegal
Bill Gates has affirmed his commitment to issues such as sanitation in developing countries by drinking water from human waste and that was captured in a video. The technology was developed by a Seattle company called Janicki Bioenergy. In talking about how this idea deals with sanitation, Bill Gates, in a blog post, writes, “The…
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Google Announces “Best Stuff of Year” List, not very Different from Apple
As Google has just released its “best stuff of year” list, in terms of downloaded content, the list as such isn’t very different from the list that Apple released too. What is noteworthy is that Frozen, The Walking Dead and Fancy by Iggy Azalea were all at the top of their respective categories even though…
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Choosing a Colocation Provider
Written by Rack Alley Colocation is one of the options that you might have if you are looking for a data center and want to go for a time-efficient solution. Colocation is usually easy to setup and safe. Factors to consider before hiring a provider is the location and network. Why colocation? Usually setting up…
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Apple Store offers Paypal as an Extra Option, offer 18 months to repay without interest
Customers who need a new payment option when picking up a Mac or iPhone can now use Paypal. This payment method is now available online at the Apple Store both in the UK or the US where Apple is also promoting its Credit System where customers can take upto 18 months to pay for a…
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Facebook reaches 1 billion users on both Whatsapp and Messenger, no ads introduced yet
Apart from the 600 million active users that Whatsapp has, Facebook has recently announced that about 500 million users are currently using Messenger, making it a billion active users in all. In speaking of its functionality given this milestone, the company, in a blog post, wrote, “Messenger was the first of our standalone apps, and…