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Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women

Amazon had been building computer programs since 2014 to review job applicants’ resumes with the aim of mechanising the search for talent.

11 Oct 2018 8:42 AM

IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad. (Photo: Twitter | ANI)

Prasad asks Russia to leverage massive potential of India's digital economy

Prasad said India is pushing its digital economy to touch USD one trillion mark in coming 3-4 years.

05 Oct 2018 1:52 PM

The machine learning approach is also capable of drawing links between a site's authenticity and its Wikipedia page or web addresses.

Researchers build AI that scans source for fake news

The AI uses machine learning algorithm which has been trained using Media Bias/Fact Check's analysis of over 2,000 news outlets.

05 Oct 2018 9:44 AM

In a bid to fortify its new-age portfolio, Bharti Airtel has acquired technology of artificial intelligence (AI) service provider AuthMe ID Services and its employees will join the company.

Airtel acquires technology of AI service provider AuthMe ID Services

The telecom company neither disclosed the scale of the deal nor the size of the team acquired.

03 Oct 2018 2:37 PM

The AI enterprise space is estimated to reach an overall 6000 million USD. (Photo: Pixabay)

AI in talent-opportunity space: What we see is just the tip of an iceberg

With deeper researches happening in AI and its related areas, far more use cases will emerge in the HR space.

27 Sep 2018 6:17 PM

Global tech major IBM is looking to partner with government bodies and financial institutions in the country to deepen reach of its artificial intelligence (AI) platform for the farm sector.

IBM looks to partner with govt bodies,banks for agriculture solutions

The US-based company launched 'Watson decision platform for agriculture' globally.

25 Sep 2018 4:34 PM

In a report published earlier in September by LinkedIn Talent Solutions, titled "Emerging Jobs: Singapore", the talent that moved from India feature prominently in 4 of the top 5 fastest growing jobs in the country.

India tops talent migration into Singapore

Singapore, with an ageing population and a shortage of high-tech workers, finds it necessary to bring in foreign talent.

25 Sep 2018 2:22 PM

Rather than waiting to respond to a famine after many have already died, the tech firms, including Amazon, "will use the predictive power of data to trigger funding" to take action before it becomes a crisis, the World Bank and UN announced. (Representational image/ Photo: AFP)

Microsoft, Amazon, Google join fight to prevent famine

Google, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services and other technology firms are providing expertise to develop a suite of analytical models.

24 Sep 2018 9:28 AM

Chinese tech giant Huawei on Friday said its seven-nanometre mobile chipset Kirin 980 equipped with AI capabilities will reach Indian consumers in fourth quarter of this year.

Huawei unveils 7nm chipset with AI capabilities Kirin 980 in India

It will bring the most-advanced mobile AI experience and outstanding connectivity anytime, anywhere to consumers.

21 Sep 2018 5:18 PM

How technologies like AI can facilitate a holistic digital transformation of SMEs

A Google-BCG report from 2017 predicts that digital spending in India is set to reach $100 billion by 2020.

21 Sep 2018 4:59 PM

The industries with the most AI skills present in their workforce are also the industries that are changing the fastest.

India among top 5 in AI skills, shows study

LinkedIn data shows that all types of technical AI skills are growing at a rapid pace around the world.

20 Sep 2018 1:40 AM

US tech giants eye AI key to unlock China push

Google, Microsoft and Amazon showcased their AI wares at a state-backed forum held in Shanghai this week.

18 Sep 2018 8:53 PM

Paul Bepey uses a phone app created by Microsoft to audibly describe a drink in a can during an interview with The Associated Press at Microsoft offices in London, Friday, July 27, 2018. Improvements in artificial intelligence, combined with the decreasing cost of hardware, are making it possible for inventors to develop new products without the need for the deep pockets of governments or big corporations. With the help of 3D printers and the increased processing power of home computers, they are creating devices designed for people with motor, vision, hearing and cognitive impairments. (AP Photo/Robert Stevens)

Talking gloves, tactile windows: new tech helps the disabled

Ayoub’s glove is an example of a trend as entrepreneurs, startups and companies like Microsoft and Google try to harness the power of AI.

13 Sep 2018 6:38 PM

AI is a costly affair and data privacy and loss of human touch and expertise are the major drawbacks. (Photo: Pixabay)

How Artificial Intelligence is reforming logistic industry

Recent advancements in hardware, platforms and applications as well as newer algorithms have accelerated the commercialisation of AI.

13 Sep 2018 3:41 PM

BlackBerry has unveiled BlackBerry Spark, the only Enterprise of Things (EoT) platform designed and built for ultra-secure hyperconnectivity from the kernel to the edge.

BlackBerry to spark ultra-secure hyperconnectivity with new EoT platform

BlackBerry Spark stands as the only platform designed and built for ultra-security and industry-specific safety-certifications.

13 Sep 2018 1:11 PM

Tata Communications said on Sunday it has launched an advanced cyber security response centre in Dubai.

Tata Communications launches cyber security response centre in Dubai

It will provide 24/7 cyber security services to help customers stay one step ahead of evolving cyber threats in the Middle East region.

09 Sep 2018 4:42 PM

Virtual learning: Using AI, immersion to teach Chinese

Researchers are developing a sort of smart room that can understand students’ words, answer their questions and perceive their gestures.

07 Sep 2018 1:04 PM

Google announced it will start using cutting-edge AI that will add on to its existing technologies to help service providers, NGOs, and other technology companies review disturbing content at scale.

Google offers free AI tool to report child abuse images

Google will be providing the new AI tools for free to NGOs and industry partners.

04 Sep 2018 6:13 PM

The existing machine translation systems can achieve near human-level performance on some languages but they require access to parallel corpus vast quantities of the same sentences in different languages in order to learn, it said.

Facebook develops quicker, faster way to translate languages

Facebook have developed a quicker and more accurate way of translating low-resources languages.

02 Sep 2018 8:41 PM

The team has partnered with machine learning experts at Google to see if they could apply deep learning to explain where aftershocks might occur.(Representational image/ Pixabay image)

Forecasting earthquake aftershock areas with AI-assisted science

A neural net was applied to analyse the relationships between static stress changes caused by the mainshocks and aftershock locations.

01 Sep 2018 1:29 PM

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