Inspired by Microsoft’s HoloLens holographic glasses, the founders of Loook are announcing today that they are creating “mixed reality” apps that blend holographic animations and the real world.
It’s been a common sight over the past few years for a biotech startup to bring a bunch of “crossover” investors—who invest in both public and private companies—into the mix before taking a crack at an IPO. Kala Pharmaceuticals just got the first part of that done by raising a $68 million Series C round this morning. Time will tell if that means a public stock offering is on the horizon.
More than 900 million people use Facebook’s Messenger mobile app each month to connect with friends and family. Now the company wants them to chat with businesses, too.
The social network announced today that companies can set up on Messenger. Some are already experimenting with using the platform for customer service, or to offer automated, interactive “bots” that can be used to browse online stores or request information such as news and weather. Burger King's bot can take food orders, for example. The Dutch airline KLM provides boarding passes and customer service via Messenger. Facebook announced its new approach at a conference for developers in San Francisco on Tuesday.
Google today is announcing the release of version 0.8 of its TensorFlow open-source machine learning software. The release is significant because it supports the ability to train machine learning models on more than just a single machine.
TensorFlow can be used for a type of artificial intelligence called deep learning, which involves training artificial neural networks on lots of data and then getting them to make inferences about new data. Training is a crucial step in the process.
El pasado mes de febrero se celebró el primer Campeonato Autonómico de CNC de Formación Profesional de la Comunidad Valenciana en el IES Molí del Sol, en Mislata (Valencia) y Fagor Automation fue una de las empresas colaboradoras de dicho evento.
Hasta ahora este campeonato sólo existía a nivel estatal, y se celebraba cada dos años en Madrid. El pasado año fue la primera vez en la que participó la Comunidad Valenciana y es por ello por lo que la Consellería de Educación decidió organizar estas Olimpiadas Autonómicas.
La compañía española Privalia, especializada en la venta de stocks por internet y uno de los mayores operadores online en España, ha sido adquirida por su competidor francés Vente Privee, la empresa francesa que inventó en 2001 las ventas flash de ofertas por internet.
"Esta nueva etapa de nuestro desarrollo se inscribe en nuestra visión a largo plazo de la empresa", ha asegurado en un comunicado de prensa Jacques-Antoine Granjon, presidente y fundador de Vente-Privee.com.
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La Estrategia de Investigación e Innovación en Salud que propone el Gobierno Vasco, desde el Departamento de Salud, recoge las líneas a seguir para que el sistema sanitario desempeñe en la práctica su función como un pilar esencial del desarrollo del ámbito de biociencias en el País Vasco, que puede considerarse otra faceta complementaria de su importante papel como pilar fundamental de nuestra sociedad de bienestar.
We’re standing on the edge of the chatbot revolution, and I’m reminded of how I felt when those first apps hit the store in 2007. Only this time, the apps talk back.
And following its announcement at Facebook’s F8 developer conference yesterday — where it became the first commerce platform to announce an integration with Facebook Messenger — Shopify today announced that it has agreed to acquire privately held Kit CRM Inc. Details of the deal were not disclosed.
“Every failed on demand startup will reappear as a successful robotics driven business in five to 10 years.” So tweeted Jeremy Conrad, founding partner of the San Francisco-based hardware fund Lemnos Labs, one recent afternoon.
