Although having a laugh at so-called “enterprise clouds” is a respected pastime in some circles, there’s an argument to be made that…
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How PayPal uses deep learning and detective work to fight fraud
Hui Wang has seen the nature of online fraud change a lot in the 11 years she’s been at PayPal. In fact, a continuous…
Read MoreAirbnb open sources SQL tool built on Facebook’s Presto database
Apartment-sharing startup Airbnb has open sourced a tool called Airpal that the company built to give more of its employees access to the…
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One of the biggest tropes in the era of big data is that data is the new oil — it’s very valuable…
Read MoreIBM acquires deep learning startup AlchemyAPI
So much for AlchemyAPI CEO Elliot Turner’s statement that his company is not for sale. IBM has bought the Denver-based deep learning…
Read MoreCloudera CEO declares victory over big data competition
Cloudera CEO Tom Reilly doesn’t often mince words when it comes to describing his competition in the Hadoop space, or Cloudera’s position…
Read MoreGoogle, Stanford say big data is key to deep learning for drug discovery
A team of researchers from Stanford University and Google have released a paper highlighting a deep learning approach they say shows promise in the…
Read MoreWhy you can’t program intelligent robots, but you can train them
If it feels like we’re in the midst of robot renaissance right now, perhaps it’s because we are. There is a new…
Read MoreHortonworks did $12.7M in Q4, on its path to a billion, CEO says
Hadoop vendor Hortonworks announced its first quarterly earnings as a publicly held company Tuesday, claiming $12.7 million in fourth-quarter revenue and $46…
Read MoreAdvertising analytics platform Metamarkets raises another $15M
Metamarkets, a San Francisco startup providing streaming analytics to advertisers, has raised a $15 million round of venture capital. Data Collective led…
Read MoreMicrosoft is building fast, low-power neural networks with FPGAs
Microsoft on Monday released a white paper explaining a current effort to run convolutional neural networks — the deep learning technique responsible…
Read MoreRemember when machine learning was hard? That’s about to change
A few years ago, there was a shift in the world of machine learning. Companies, such as Skytree and Context Relevant, began…
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