Archivo del Autor: Belen De Leon

Yelp adds C-section rates and other stats for all baby delivery hospitals in California

 Having a baby and want to know if your hospital is particularly C-section happy? Yelp aims to make that process a bit easier with the addition of a new maternity care rate feature. Expectant mothers have been able to get similar information about the maternity care of a particular hospital from state websites already but the information is often hard to find. Yelp, which rolled the feature… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Tencent backs Indian education startup BYJU’s at a valuation of $800 million

 Tencent, Asia’s highest-valued tech company, has continued to invest in India after it backed online education service BYJU’s. The startup that includes the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and Sequoia among its investors. The size of the investment has not been disclosed, but a source close to the deal told TechCrunch that it values BYJU’s around the $800 million mark. Tencent… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Vicarious gets another $50 million to expand its research team and build smarter robots

 Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg might not be able to agree about much when it comes to AI these days, but the pair do seem to see the same potential in Vicarious, a startup applying unsupervised learning techniques to robots. Musk and Zuckerberg were two of the early backers of Vicarious. The startup announced that it raised an additional $50 million in financing this morning (via… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Crunch Report | Facebook Smart Speaker on the Way

Facebook is apparently working on its own smart speaker and has acquired digital rights management company Source3, SoftBank could bet billions on Uber, Duolingo raises $25 million and more. All this on Crunch Report. Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Momenta raises $46M Series B for its self-driving car software

 Beijing-based Momenta announced this morning that it raised a $46 million Series B round led by NIO Capital, Sequoia Capital China and Hillhouse Capital. Momenta produces self-driving car software that applies deep learning to mapping, path planning and object recognition problems. Shunwei Capital, Sinovation Ventures, Unity Ventures and Daimler also participated in the round.
Quite a few U.S. Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Niantic CEO blames Pokemon Go Fest mess on mobile carriers – CNET

Many people at the event were unable to access Pokemon Go throughout the day due to network congestion, says John Hanke.
Source: CNET

This facial recognition system tracks how you’re enjoying a movie

 As moviemaking becomes as much a science as an art, the moviemakers need to ever-better ways to gauge audience reactions. Did they enjoy it? How much… exactly? At minute 42? A system from Caltech and Disney Research uses a facial expression tracking neural network to learn and predict how members of the audience react, perhaps setting the stage for a new generation of Nielsen ratings. Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Spin brings its pick-up-anywhere bike sharing to South San Francisco

 Spin, the bike-sharing service that lets you pick up and drop off a bike anywhere in a city, is coming to South San Francisco. The company’s dockless bike-sharing service made its debut in Seattle last week, and is now spinning its way down south to the Bay Area. Read More

Source: TechCrunch

'Red sprites' are nature's best recently discovered light show – CNET

Brief bursts of energy over storms were first photographed from space less than 30 years ago. Now fans on the ground are starting to chase the phenomenon.
Source: CNET

BenQ EX3200R gaming monitor review

We were skeptical that a $400, 1080p display could stand up to some of the best curved ultra-wides currently on the market. But as we learned in our BenQ EX3200R, it would be unwise to underestimate this monitor.

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Source: Digital trends