Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: News

14 Jun 2018

Google

Now, you can use Google Translate app offline

Google has started rolling out an update to its Google Translate app, which would let you translate offline.

13 Jun 2018

Kiran Bedi

Puducherry's 'Singham' on Beach Road is now helping tourists!

On Sunday, Puducherry LG Kiran Bedi inaugurated a tourist kiosk on Beach road. Sounds like any regular news?

12 Jun 2018

India

Inshorts' AI-based news summarization to generate 100,000 'shorts' per month

India's highest rated news application Inshorts introduced Artificial Intelligence-backed algorithmic summarization on its app which will help in summarizing more than 100,000 articles per month.

10 Jun 2018

Technology

Meet Norman: MIT's "psychopath" AI engine which only thinks murder

The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) is upon us and there's no way to reverse the tide.

09 Jun 2018

IBM

Meet IBM's Summit, the world's most powerful supercomputer

The US has retaken its place as the country with the most powerful supercomputer after the Department of Energy, on Friday, unveiled the new IBM-made Summit.

08 Jun 2018

Delhi Police

By 2019, Delhi's traffic to be manned by artificial intelligence

In a bid to improve the city's traffic management, Delhi Police will finally start working on making it an AI-dependent system with depth-sensors to regulate traffic signals.

06 Jun 2018

Microsoft

Microsoft's AI app for the blind can identify Indian currency

Microsoft research project, Seeing AI - an app designed for the blind and for people with low vision - has been upgraded and can now identify Indian currency, using Artificial Intelligence.

06 Jun 2018

India

8 popular start-ups currently offering jobs in Gurugram

Start-ups have become popular among job seekers these days in India for the country is emerging as one of the world's fastest-growing start-up hubs.

03 Jun 2018

Xiaomi

Xiaomi's MIUI 10 unveiled: Here's everything you need to know

Alongside the launch of its 2018 flagship phone, the Mi 8, Xiaomi also unveiled the latest version of its operating system (OS), the MIUI 10.

31 May 2018

Cancer

Study: This computer code detects skin cancer better than doctors

In a first of sorts, researchers have demonstrated that artificial intelligence is better than human beings at detecting skin cancer.

30 May 2018

Tencent

Tencent teaches AI to de-blur photos, edit human faces

In a time when phone cameras are increasingly becoming AI-powered, clicking magnificent photos has become infinitely simpler for laymen photographers.

30 May 2018

NITI Aayog

NITI Aayog's portal to give start-ups access to public data

Government think-tank NITI Aayog has plans to launch a new online portal through which public data will be made available to private entities, including start-ups, announced NITI Aayog's CEO Amitabh Kant at an artificial intelligence (AI) start-up conclave.

21 May 2018

India

Samsung Galaxy A6, Galaxy A6+ with AI camera features launched

As an addition to its line up of mid-budget smartphone in India, Samsung has launched the Galaxy A6 and Galaxy A6+ smartphones in the country.

21 May 2018

Sexual Assault

Why Indians using sex dolls is a good idea

Imagine sex dolls becoming a regular in Indian households. Given as gifts on weddings, anniversaries; discussed among friends, at work; carefully placed alongside furniture in bedrooms.

19 May 2018

Imphal

Railways: AI to control air circulation in Manipur tunnel

For the first time, the railways will use Artificial Intelligence to control air circulation, supervise, and oversee maintenance of work in the 10.28km-long tunnel in Imphal as part of its 110km railway line from Jiribam to Imphal.

10 May 2018

India

Google and NITI Aayog partner to enrich India's AI Ecosystem

The National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog and Google have joined hands to work on several initiatives to develop the artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem across the country.

09 May 2018

Gmail

Gmail's new feature will help you write emails, using Machine-Learning

Over the past few weeks, Google has revamped its Gmail with new design changes and features such as confidentiality mode, e-mail snoozing and a convenient hover bar tool.

08 May 2018

Google

Watch out! This app can easily create fake videos

Creating fake videos is no longer as difficult as it used to be and doesn't require access to special hardware anymore.

07 May 2018

California

AI-powered game identifies object images and matches them with emojis

As an example of interesting and fun uses of machine learning, Google has launched a new AI-based game called "Emoji Scavenger Hunt".

06 May 2018

Elon Musk

Debate Game helps you catch when AI systems are lying

OpenAI, a non-profit co-founded by Elon Musk that focuses on promoting safe AI, has developed a Debate Game.

03 May 2018

Mark Zuckerberg

100 gms of entrepreneurship: What are the ingredients

Find what you love, and let it kill you - that's what an entrepreneur does on a daily basis.

23 Apr 2018

Huawei

Huawei is working on virtual-assistant that can read human emotions

Today, all virtual assistants can serve according to our commands and perform basic functions like 'play music', 'send a message' etc. But they fail to comprehend our emotions.

18 Apr 2018

Google

You can talk to books using this tool from Google

Google's Research division has launched Semantic Experiences, two new AI experiments with interesting activities involving semantics and natural language processing.

15 Apr 2018

Indian Railways

Indian Railways may deploy chatbots to improve customer service

In its endeavor to provide better services to its users, Indian Railways may soon use chatbots to respond to train queries and boost customer experience.

06 Apr 2018

Bharti Airtel

Airtel appoints ex-NASA exec Santanu Bhattacharya to lead digital-innovation lab

Bharti Airtel has appointed ex-NASA executive Santanu Bhattacharya as chief data scientist. His role would encompass using data science and deep analytics to understand customer needs and develop innovative products and services for Airtel.

04 Apr 2018

Amazon

Apple poaches Google's AI chief John Giannandrea

In a major executive reshuffle, Apple has hired Google's Head of Search and Artificial Intelligence (AI) John Giannandrea to lead its Machine Learning (ML) and AI strategy.

02 Apr 2018

PepsiCo

Meet Vera, the Russian robot that is hiring humans

Last year, a McKinsey study found that automation would take '800 million jobs by 2030'. Fast-forward to today, Robots have found yet another job.

31 Mar 2018

Facebook

If you can't #DeleteFacebook, you can at least #ConfuseFacebook

The Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal highlighted how Cambridge Analytica obtained user data of 50 million people from Facebook without their permission to allegedly help Donald Trump get elected as the US President.

31 Mar 2018

iOS

This AI engine predicts your lifespan through activity tracking apps

Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and biotech company GERO have developed an AI algorithm that uses data from activity tracking and fitness apps in smartphones and wearables to estimate your lifespan.

29 Mar 2018

India

Introducing YANTRA: India's first 'Robot Journalist' by NewsBytes

For a company that is in the business of news, we are extremely media-shy. We talk about everything under the sun, except ourselves. And, rightly so. Your work should do the talking.

28 Mar 2018

India

OPPO A83 Pro launched in India, priced at Rs. 15,990

As an upgrade to the OPPO A83 model launched in January, OPPO has now launched A83 Pro, priced at Rs. 15,990.

26 Mar 2018

India

Flipkart is reinventing its back-end technology by infusing Artificial Intelligence

For any successful business, and especially in an e-commerce space, back-end technologies must scale proportionally with the fast-growing demands.

25 Mar 2018

India

Bengaluru: Microsoft to hold first-of-its-kind AI summit on Mar 28

Tech giant Microsoft will host 'AI for All' summit in Bengaluru on March 28 to exhibit use cases of artificial intelligence (AI) across sectors.

21 Mar 2018

Samsung

Samsung's SRI-Noida employees to get special M.Tech from BITS Pilani

To help its employees develop skills as well as gain an advanced degree, Samsung India has signed an MoU with the reputed BITS Pilani.

18 Mar 2018

Google

Google organizes one-day workshop on AI/ML in Bengaluru

Google India organized a one-day workshop on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in Bengaluru on Friday.

14 Mar 2018

Bengaluru

Bengaluru to get 10,000 CCTV cameras for women's safety

Did you know Bengaluru has seen a 186% rise in rape cases in a single year?

14 Mar 2018

Technology

Drones, AI, CCTV cameras: Bengaluru ward going to be smart!

Vidyaranyapura in Bengaluru north is on its way to becoming the city's first smart ward.

13 Mar 2018

Google

Google and Apple are competing to acquire promising AI start-ups

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is gradually coming of age and consistently improving to find new uses - from smartphones to self-driving cars, health care to business solutions, you name it.

09 Mar 2018

LG

LG reveals the prices for its V30S ThinQ smartphones

LG Electronics has revealed the local prices for its latest V30S ThinQ and V30S+ ThinQ smartphones; they will go on sale in South Korea starting March 9.

08 Mar 2018

Huawei

Huawei to unveil three smartphones in the P20 series

Huawei, China's leading smartphone manufacturer, is all set to unveil its latest smartphones at the company's upcoming event on March 27 in Paris, France.