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As Facebook Fights Fake News, LeCun Sees Bigger Role for A.I.

Xconomy

As top lawyers from Facebook, Google, and Twitter testify on Capitol Hill this week about Russians using their platforms to interfere in the 2016 U.S. That’s according to Yann LeCun , a machine learning expert and Facebook’s director of A.I.

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Data Scientist Team Share Lessons Learned From Competition

Tech.Co

They left the competition with their lessons learned and came back to win first place in 2017. “To To us, the ‘expert questions’ were like the typical machine learning questions we’d get in a Galvanize classroom,” said Baolin Liu. Delivery is key: The guys picked up the pace of their presentation after going too slowly in 2016.

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

Xconomy

View the Slideshow A little more than a year ago, amid a resurgence in San Diego’s software sector, Xconomy identified a baker’s dozen of local tech companies to watch in 2016. is providing back-office support for clinicial trials; and Clarify Medical has developed technology that simplifies the current treatment for psoriasis and eczema.

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Connected Classroom Technology and Essentials for K-12 School Districts

Southern California Edison Blog

For K-12 school districts to keep up with technology and enable a fully modern, effective environment, they need to augment the fundamentals with key technology advancements and essentials including Artificial Intelligence, updated communication tools, and high-speed networks tailored for educational institutions.

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Xconomy’s Top Innovation Stories of the Half Year

Xconomy

Here we are at the midpoint of 2016 already. The Xconversation: Vaccine Developer Meets Energy Innovator. San Antonio Entrepreneur Center Opens Using Dallas Nonprofit as Model. Austin’s Lucid Aims to Make Artificial Intelligence More Human. Angela Shah delves into a company that’s part of a growing cluster of A.I.

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SoftBank’s Arm to Include Cybereason Security Services in IoT Hub

Xconomy

Boston-based Cybereason has formed a partnership with Arm, the dominant developer of computer chip architecture, which was acquired by SoftBank in 2016. Security-tech company Cybereason is announcing another boon flowing from close ties with its biggest investor, Japanese telecom and tech giant SoftBank.

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Biotech Roundup: CRISPR’s 1st Trial, IPO Insiders, Zika & More

Xconomy

There’s plenty more news to chew on as well, from the latest developments in the Zika battle to biotech’s sigh of relief when Medicare spending cuts were avoided (for now). —There were two major developments in the fight against Zika virus, which has begun to affect children born in the U.S. Let’s get right to it.