The facial recognition APIs offered by Google, Microsoft, and IBM exhibit gender bias when tested on self-portraits of people wearing partial face masks. That’s according to data scientists at marketing …
A month after announcing changes to ML Kit, its developer toolset for infusing apps with AI, Google today launched the Digital Ink Recognition API on Android and iOS to allow …
WordPress.com’s parent company Automattic is launching a new team communication and collaboration product today, one that has served as the “foundation of Automattic’s distributed work model” for more than a …
TikTok, the Chinese video sharing app that’s found itself at the center of a geopolitical power struggle which threatens to put hard limits on its global growth this year, said …
Digital health startup Infermedica today nabbed $10.25 million to further develop its platform for symptom diagnosis. The company, which claims to have performed more than 6 million health checks to …
Microsoft today announced the launch of a new open-source service mesh based on the Envoy proxy. The Open Service Mesh is meant to be a reference implementation of the Service …
Researchers at Stanford, Harvard, and the University of Michigan propose an AI framework they claim can be used to deliver recommendations via smartphone that encourage healthier lifestyles. By personalizing the …
Sight Diagnostics, which is developing an AI-powered blood analysis machine, this week nabbed $71 million in funding. This more than doubles the startup’s total raised, and a spokesperson says it …
Mentor-guided online training platform Springboard has raised $31 million in a series B round of funding led by Telstra Ventures. The raise comes amid surging demand for online learning, with …
Enterprise natural language processing (NLP) technologies vendor Expert System today secured $29.4 million in funding, $20 million of which came from institutional investors. (The remaining $9.4 million arose through the …