In 2017,companies globally have completed around $21.3 billion in mergers and acquisitions related to AI, according to PitchBook, a data provider, or around 26 times more than in 2015. Alphabet (Google’s parent), Amazon, Apple, Facebook, IBM, Microsoft, Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent are all making large investments in to Artificial Intelligence. Alphabet is widely perceived to be …
The sixth annual Breakthrough prize awards gave seven $3 million prizes 2018 Breakthrough Prizes in Life Sciences Awarded to Joanne Chory, Don W. Cleveland, Kazutoshi Mori, Kim Nasmyth, and Peter Walter. 2018 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics Awarded to Charles L. Bennett, Gary Hinshaw, Norman Jarosik, Lyman Page Jr., David N. Spergel, and the WMAP …
Facebook will be using pattern recognition artificial intelligence to more quickly identify suicidal posts. * Using pattern recognition to detect posts or live videos where someone might be expressing thoughts of suicide, and to help respond to reports faster * Improving how we identify appropriate first responders * Dedicating more reviewers from our Community Operations …
Many younger technologists (some who were involved in creating likes at Facebook) are weaning themselves off their own products, sending their children to elite Silicon Valley schools where iPhones, iPads and even laptops are banned. They appear to be abiding by a Biggie Smalls lyric from their own youth about the perils of dealing crack …
Facebook’s and Alphabet Inc.’s Google took 99% of the online ad industry’s growth last year, according to Pivotal Research. Facebook predicted that growth would slow in the second half of 2017. This month, Facebook started showing ads in its Messenger chat app and introducing ads in Marketplace, a Craigslist-like feature in the core Facebook app. …
1. Facebook has reached 2 billion users 2. Google’s YouTube’s 1.5 billion 3. Facebook’s WhatsApp 1.2 billion 4. Facebook Messenger 1.2 billion 5. WeChat had 938 million users in May 2017 (23% growth YoY) 6. QQ 861 million in Q1 2017, a decrease of 2% YoY 7. Instagram 700 million 8. Weibo 340 million 9. …
Apple now has a valuation of over $800 billion. It is the most valuable publicly traded company. Google is at $649 billion. Microsoft is at $531 billion. Amazon is at $448 billion Facebook is at $434 billion. Berkshire Hathaway is at $408 billion as the largest non-tech company. Alibaba, the Chinese internet company, is the …
Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin have been circulating a seven-page white paper to NASA leadership and President Trump’s transition team about their interest in developing a lunar spacecraft with a lander that would touch down near a crater at the south pole where there is water and nearly continuous sunlight for solar energy. The memo …
There is an improved build strategy for the second Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier. The Kennedy carrier (CVN-79)is being built using more modular construction, a process where smaller sections of the ship are welded together to form large structural units, equipment is installed, and the large units are lifted into the dry dock using the …
The Credit Suisse global wealth report for 2016 is available. It is based upon the work of James Davies, Rodrigo Lluberas and Anthony Shorrocks. The bottom 20% have negative wealth. The -0.2% of the bottom 10% is more than the +0.1% of the next 10%. It takes getting to the collective bottom 25% (the bottom …
Infineon is using a micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) to make a low cost LIDAR chip. This particular MEMS was invented by Innoluce, a Dutch firm which Infineon bought in October 2016. The device consists of an oval-shaped mirror, just 3mm by 4mm, contained on a bed of silicon. The mirror is connected to actuators that use …