The audio problem Learn how new cloud-based API solutions are solving imperfect, frustrating audio in video conferences. Access here A group of search engines from around the world are banding together to demand European Union regulators address Google’s dominance in the online search market. They are also urging the EU …
Read More »Artificial intelligence and the antitrust case against Google
The audio problem Learn how new cloud-based API solutions are solving imperfect, frustrating audio in video conferences. Access here Following the launch of investigations last year, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) together with attorney generals from 11 U.S. states filed a lawsuit against Google on Tuesday alleging that the …
Read More »Ex-Owner in $146 Million Elder Care Default Is Charged in Ponzi Case
A Chicago-area rabbi, who formerly owned a nursing home chain at the heart of the biggest default in the history of a federal mortgage-guarantee program, has been indicted by federal authorities on charges he bilked millions of dollars from investors. The indictment against Zvi Feiner and a business partner, Erez …
Read More »Epic’s antitrust case against Apple’s App Store monopoly
GamesBeat Summit Watch every session from the annual event On Demand Watch Now In a broad antitrust challenge to the power of one of the tech industry giants, Epic Games has filed a lawsuit against Apple alleging antitrust violations for pulling Fortnite out of the Apple App Store because Epic …
Read More »Zapata CEO Christopher Savoie: The QC and ML business use case is ‘a when, not an if’
VB Transform The AI event for business leaders Hosted Online July 14 – 17 Register Today Take the latest VB Survey to share how your company is implementing AI today. The story of quantum computing hardware companies is well known. But as tech giants Amazon and Microsoft push the quantum …
Read More »ProBeat: RIP YouTube TV, you’ll make a great case study
Unbundle cable TV, they said. It will be cheaper, they said. Google this week “updated” (its wording, not mine) the pricing of YouTube TV from $ 50 per month to $ 65 per month. The price increase for the over-the-top internet television service comes just over a year after the …
Read More »Researchers use predictive models to calculate more accurate COVID-19 case fatality ratios
A preprint study published by researchers at the Southern California Eye Institute, CHA Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, and the University of California, Berkely investigated the biases that exist in COVID-19 case fatality ratios between groups and countries, like time- and severity-dependent reporting of cases and time-lags in outcomes. They found …
Read More »Publishers Snap Up Coronavirus Books, From Covid-19 Case Studies to Pandemic Poetry
At the end of March, Alice Quinn, the former executive director of the Poetry Society of America, emailed 125 poets across the United States, asking if any of them had written verses reflecting on life during a pandemic. Responses flooded in. Forty days later, Ms. Quinn had compiled a book …
Read More »Augmented reality hits economic reality in the case of Magic Leap
Magic Leap just announced its intention to focus on the enterprise market, after years of branding itself as a consumer device company. The corporate press release blamed COVID-19 for the required pivot, and nearly 1,000 employee have been laid-off; almost half its workforce. However, this shift toward the enterprise market is …
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