Facebook brings its 3D photos feature to users with single-camera phones – TechCrunch
Facebook first showed off its 3D photos back in 2018, and shared the technical details behind it a month later. But unless you had one of a handful of phones...
Microsoft’s Cortana drops consumer skills as it refocuses on business users – TechCrunch
With the next version of Windows 10, coming this spring, Microsoft’s Cortana digital assistant will lose a number of consumer skills around music and connected homes, as well as...
What robotics’ biggest raises tell us about the industry’s future – TechCrunch
Warehouse fulfilment, construction, surgical and agriculture are key targets for automation
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I visited Boston last week and met with a number of robotics researchers, startups and established...
Robotics + AI 2020 – TechCrunch
Today’s your last day to score early-bird pricing on tickets to TC Sessions: Robotics + AI 2020, which takes place on March 3. If you want to keep $150 in...
German football league Bundesliga teams with AWS to improve fan experience – TechCrunch
Germany’s top soccer (football) league, Bundesliga, announced today it is partnering with AWS to use artificial intelligence to enhance the fan experience during games.
Andreas Heyden, executive vice president for...
Early-bird savings end next Friday on tickets to Robotics+AI 2020 – TechCrunch
TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics+AI 2020 is gearing up to be one amazing show. This annual day-long event draws the brightest minds and makers from these two industries — 1,500 attendees last...
Facebook speeds up AI training by culling the weak – TechCrunch
Training an artificial intelligence agent to do something like navigate a complex 3D world is computationally expensive and time-consuming. In order to better create these potentially useful systems, Facebook ...
Google brings IBM Power Systems to its cloud – TechCrunch
As Google Cloud looks to convince more enterprises to move to its platform, it needs to be able to give businesses an onramp for their existing legacy infrastructure and...
Zebra’s SmartSight inventory robot keeps an eye on store shelves – TechCrunch
How many times have you gone into a store and found the shelves need restocking of the very item you want? This is a frequent problem, and it’s difficult, especially...
Sisense nabs $100M at a $1B+ valuation for accessible big data business analytics –...
Sisense, an enterprise startup that has built a business analytics business out of the premise of making big data as accessible as possible to users — whether it be through...
