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How PointPredictive Is Using Machine Learning To Uncover Fraud, With Tim Grace

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There's been a revolution in the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in the last few years, by both startups and large companies, to help in a large number of areas. Tim Grace: PointPredictive is an artificial intelligence, machine learning, and pattern recognition provider.

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AlphaTrAI Applies AI To Investment Management

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San Diego-based AlphaTrAI , a fintech startup which is backed by venture capital investor Analytics Ventures, says it is launching its own, extrenal fund, and is expanding its leadership team. the founder of Hightree Advisors, to its advisory board.

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Xconomy Special Report: 12 San Diego Tech Startup to Watch in 2017

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I started with a list of companies already screened by the San Diego Venture Group’s annual venture summit, and consulted with investors and startup mentors to refine the list. I widened my net this year. Such lists can be entirely relative, but I sought to adjust for the capricious effects of subjectivity.

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The Five Major Tech Trends of 2016

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“Cognitive computing,” artificial intelligence, machine learning, and advanced data analytics are evolving companies’ understanding of their customers in game-changing ways. To augment and overcome physical distance, we are starting to use drones, virtual reality, and driverless cars.

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Privacy Advocate Richard Holober on the Tech Backlash of 2017 

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elections, democracy, free speech, fairness in hiring, sexual harassment, privacy, data security, and the future job market for humans in the age of robots and artificial intelligence. We’ve just passed a year full of news about the role of technology companies in U.S.

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Tech Hiring Trends: Buzzwords, Trump Effect, and Gender-Pay Gap

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Data is table-stakes for doing practically anything interesting in tech, and it’s the fuel for machine learning algorithms. . —In the last two years, big data has fallen off the buzzword bingo card. And of course we’re not talking about a little data here or there. It’ got to be big. So there’s probably.

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Future of the Internet: What Scares Networking Pioneer Radia Perlman

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Join Xconomy and World Frontiers Forum on July 16 for Net@50 , an event exploring the internet’s past and future. ] [ Editor’s note: This is part of a series examining the internet’s first 50 years and predicting the next half century.