Jason Alden | Bloomberg | Getty Images Man has partnered with the University of Oxford to study quantitative finance, and in the last year, carved out a new specialization to research machine learning and data science.
Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft and other tech giants standing on the bleeding edge of AI/ML innovation are actively investing in the democratization of artificial intelligence. In the recent years, these companies have open-sourced many AI/ML libraries, tools or started offering these solutions as a part of their commercial offerings and cloud services.
What's needed: A reliable and accurate predictions of the time, location and strength of a temblor. At its heart, it seems simple: earthquakes are just a release of stress. Shouldn't it be basic physics to understand when the fault has reached a breaking point?
The cybersecurity industry has always had a fortress mentality: Firewall the perimeter! Harden the system! But that mindset has failed-miserably, as each new headline-generating hack reminds us. Even if you do patch all your software, the way Equifax didn't, or you randomize all your passwords, the way most of us don't, bad actors are going to get past your heavily guarded gate, into your network.
Identity checking startup Onfido raises $30 million from investors including Microsoft; Company was founded 5 years ago by three Oxford grads with an average age of 27; "It's beyond anything we could have dreamed of," CEO tells BI.
Intel has announced a neuromorphic artificial intelligence (AI) test chip named Loihi, which it said is aimed at mimicking brain functions by learning from data gained from its environment. According to Intel, its efforts in "comparing machines with the human brain" have resulted in a self-learning, energy-efficient AI chip that uses asynchronous spiking to take inferences from its environment and become constantly smarter.
winni wintermeyer More than six million people use Slack every day as a hub and platform for communicating and sharing information with their coworkers. The San Francisco-based company also just raised $250 million more in funding, in a round that puts its value at a lofty $5.1 billion (see " 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2016: Slack ").
