A week after its first investment in Europe, Chinese ride-sharing giant Didi Chuxing is spreading its wings once again after it announced a financing deal with Careem, an Uber rival in the Middle East that is valued at more than $1 billion. The size of the investment was not disclosed. Yes, Didi is backing yet another Uber rival in another corner of the world. Aside from Taxify, the Europe… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Commentary: Just over a month ago, Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot showed off on stage before taking a spectacular fall. Let’s honor it now.
Source: CNET
IBM has published test results for its new distributed deep-learning software, demonstrating significant improvements over previous projects backed by Microsoft and Facebook AI Research.
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Source: Digital trends
Softbank wants to invest in either Uber or Lyft, iPhone 8 might scan your face and QR codes come to Venmo and Faraday Future is getting a factory in Hanford, California. All this on Crunch Report! Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Google has fired the employee behind a controversial memo on gender diversity that went viral inside the company, and across Silicon Valley and much of the world’s tech industry.
The author, who has been revealed to be Havard PhD graduate James Damore, confirmed to Bloomberg that he has been terminated from his role as an engineer at Google for “perpetuating gender… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Two months ago, Facebook’s AI Research Lab (FAIR) published some impressive training times for massively distributed visual recognition models. Today IBM is firing back with some numbers of its own. IBM’s research groups says it was able to train ResNet-50 for 1k classes in 50 minutes across 256 GPUs — which is effectively just the polite way of saying “my model… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
The author of a memo criticizing the company’s diversity efforts has been fired, according to Bloomberg.
Source: CNET
Memo challenges company’s training on unconscious bias
Source: Wired
Commentary: Amazon subsidiary Audible.com has partnered with the famed Dog Whisperer to offer classic books for your pooches.
Source: CNET
A privacy group has requested an FTC investigation into the VPN company, claiming Hotspot violated its own privacy policy.
Source: CNET