Contact tracing has quickly emerged as the go-to method of tracking the spread of the coronavirus among the general population, but there have been crucial questions around the most effective, ethical, and legal ways of doing so. New legislation introduced this week, the COVID-19 Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA), seeks …
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Cockroach Labs, the company behind the open source distributed SQL database CockroachDB, has raised $ 86.6 million in a series D round of funding co-led by Altimeter Capital and Bond. Alphabet’s venture capital arm, GV, also participated in the round, having co-led its $ 55 million series C round back …
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A team of Google researchers recently detailed a framework called SimCLR, which improves previous approaches to self-supervised learning, a family of techniques for converting an unsupervised learning problem (i.e., a problem in which AI models train on unlabeled data) into a supervised one by creating labels from unlabeled data sets. …
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Privitar, a U.K. startup that helps companies embed privacy protection into their data projects, has raised $ 80 million in a series C round of funding led by Warburg Pincus, with participation from Accel, Partech, IQ Capital, Salesforce Ventures, and ABN AMRO Ventures. Founded in 2014, London-based Privitar enables companies …
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In an effort to spur the development of systems that can quickly spot signs of the novel coronavirus, a team of researchers at the University of San Diego this week released a data set — the COVID-CT-Dataset — containing 275 CT scans collected from 143 patients with confirmed cases of …
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In 2016, Australian firm TPG Telecom won the bid to become Singapore’s fourth telco. Then in December last year, TPG announced that it will offer free mobile service for a year to the first 20,000 users who register their interest. Due to such positive interest, TPG has relaunched the free one-year trial in March 2019 …
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The COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19), a repository of more than 29,000 scholarly articles about coronavirus family viruses from around the world, is being released today for free. The result of work by Microsoft Research, the Allen Institute for AI, the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of …
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Google today announced machine images, a new type of Compute Engine resource in Google Cloud that contains all the information required to create, back up, or restore a virtual machine. The company claims it’ll reduce the time network admins and data scientists spend managing their cloud environments by eliminating extra …
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The buzz around big data has created a widespread misconception: that its mere existence can provide a company with actionable insights and positive business outcomes. The reality is a bit more complicated. To get value from big data, you need a capable team of data scientists to sift through it. …
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