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A Research Team Plans to Merge AI with Human Brain Cells

Tech.Co

A group of researchers in Australia have been awarded just over $400,000 (USD) in government funding to study the possibilities of merging AI with human brain cells, a research project likely to bring a number of AI-related ethical and existential questions to the fore.

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Movio wants to make your marketing videos with generative AI

TechCrunch LA

A proliferation of startups is now trying to devise applications for this new class of language model , where the machine is capable of creating new text, images and videos based on simple human input. The platform is going after marketers with a Canva-style drag-and-drop interface.

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Donut Media's Matt Levin On Creating A New Car Enthusiast Brand

socalTECH

The way we're doing that, is we are creating video content, which we distribute across social platforms. We had lots of success reaching the GenZ and millennial audience with video content on that platform. You have to create unique stories and content across multiple platforms, and build different narratives across those platforms.

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How Snapchat Is Taking a Crack at Stopping Fake News

Tech.Co

As of an August Pew Research study , 43 percent of Americans report “often getting news online,” just seven percentage points lower than the number who get their news from TV sources. In other words, the internet is a huge and growing source of news — and it’s a lot harder to regulate the internet than television.

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Girls in STEM and Cyber Security Among Top Startups at Eureka Park 2018

Tech.Co

In a study by the US Department of Commerce , women in STEM jobs earn 33 percent more money than women in non-STEM positions. Deep Learning Analytics. Using artificial intelligence to compartmentalize and discover patterns within large volumes of data is a forte of Deep Learning Analytics.

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Interview with Lior Elazary, Invia Robotics

socalTECH

We have many artificial intelligence software algorithms we had to develop, but there have been other automation solutions that have been able to do similar things. So, we started with a simple robotic platform, and developed software to make up for the lack of precision hardware. So where are you now in deployment?

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The Evolution of the App Stores

Xconomy

At their annual developer conferences, Google I/O, held last month, and Apple’s WWDC, last week they both announced updates to their development platforms. Google is making major improvements to Android Studio, while Apple is continuing to invest in Swift and announced Playgrounds, an exciting new way to learn how to program in Swift.