Días clave para el proceso de venta de la farmacéutica portuguesa Generis. El fondo español Magnum Capital Industrial Partners, que controla la empresa de productos genéricos desde 2009, tiene media docena de ofertas iniciales de compra sobre la mesa y confía en poder materializar el traspaso antes de julio, indican fuentes del mercado.
You might yet be able to untether from your power cords. This month has seen the debunking of a proposed long-range method of wireless charging, but almost simultaneously, a simpler and efficient method for charging laptop computers quietly went into production.
Generally, computers are useless at holding a conversation. They just take things a bit too literally. But Google is teaching computers how to make sense of the vagaries of human speech and text.
Starting today, Google is opening up those algorithms to outside software developers. The tools released will help programmers build language-based apps and services that are less prone to annoying misunderstandings than many of today’s chatbots. And they should help get developers hooked on the powerful machine-learning techniques Google is honing.
Google’s own mastery of grammar and syntax helps the company deliver more accurate search results, and it will be increasingly important as more of its devices and services come to depend on voice control.
Después de que Pfizer no consiguiese cerrar la compra Allergan, la compañía ha anunciado que comprará la farmacéutica Anacor Pharamaceuticals por 5.200 millones de dólares en efectivo (unos 4.600 millones de euros), según ha informado la propia Pfizer en un comunicado. Las acciones de Anacor, se disparan.
FAGOR ARRASATE celebró una nueva Jornada de Puertas Abiertas para mostrar a sus clientes la Desbobinadora integrada en su instalación SMC para COMPOSITES
This week we learned about a subsea dig into the massive crater left behind by the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago, mice that took a two-week vacation aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis and returned to Earth with damaged livers, and a cell that broke one of the most basic laws of biology. Take a look.
La reciente recuperación económica no llega a la ciencia. Esa es la principal conclusión que se puede extraer del último informe sobre la situación de la ciencia y la innovación en España elaborado por la Fundación Cotec. En un evento celebrado esta mañana en la antigua fábrica de ascensores Boeticher, en el distrito madrileño de Villaverde, Cristina Garmendia, presidenta de la fundación, señalaba que pese al crecimiento del PIB español, el gasto en I+D ejecutado en España sigue descendiendo: en 2014 fue de 12.821 millones de euros, lo que supone una caída del 1,5% respecto a 2013.
La iniciativa cuenta con el apoyo del programa de impulso a la innovación tecnológica Gaitek.
Con el objetivo de mejorar la calidad de vida de los pacientes de enfermedades circulatorias, la empresa Bilbomatica, el Clúster GAIA y la Asociación Guipuzcoana de Anticoagulados trabajan en el desarrollo de un sistema tecnológico que permita hacer seguimiento de la evolución clínica de pacientes a tratamiento de anticoagulantes orales.
Google’s algorithms can now parse the structure and meaning of simple language as expertly as a trained linguist. This mastery of grammar and syntax helps the company deliver more accurate search results, and it will be increasingly important as more of its devices and services come to depend on voice control.
Starting today, Google is opening up those algorithms to outside software developers. The tools released will help programmers build language-based apps and services that are less prone to annoying misunderstandings than many of today’s chatbots. And it should help get developers hooked on the powerful machine-learning techniques Google is honing.
Now that high school seniors have made the fateful choice of a college to attend in the fall, their parents are free to pull out tufts of hair as they figure out how to pay for it.
Scholarships are life-saving options, but they can be hard to ferret out, says San Francisco-based startup Schoold, which offers a free college-planning mobile app. The company, which uses artificial intelligence techniques to personalize help for individual students, today announced a new “Scholarship” function on its app. It will automatically surface details on study grants and awards that could work for each particular user.
