by Asmawisham | May 10, 2017 | Technology
Late last month, 500 people from around the world gathered in Dallas at Uber’s inaugural Elevate Summit. The invite-only conference was the next actionable step forward, post-Uber’s white paper published last fall, “Fast-Forwarding to a Future of On-Demand Urban Air...
by Asmawisham | May 10, 2017 | Technology
One of the beautiful things about owning a Google Chromebook laptop is the surprising lack of maintenance involved. The browser is essentially the OS and you connect to applications via the cloud. Everything gets updated automatically. Easy, peasy right?Well, it gets...
by Asmawisham | May 10, 2017 | Technology
Mindfulness app Simple Habit was built to help users relieve stress and build healthier lives with more than 1,000 guided meditation sessions available to users. To continue growing, the company has raised $2.5 million from investors that include New Enterprise...
by Asmawisham | May 10, 2017 | Technology
In its latest paper, the Facebook AI Research (FAIR) team dropped some impressive results for its implementation of a modified convolutional neural network for machine translation. Facebook says it has achieved a small bump in accuracy at nine times the speed...
by Asmawisham | May 10, 2017 | Technology
Can your tweets help you find love? That’s the view taken by U.K.-based online dating startup Loveflutter as it pivots once again. The company has rolled out a revamped version of its app that lets you add your Twitter feed to your dating profile, in a similar vein to...
by Asmawisham | May 10, 2017 | Technology
It’s Snapchat’s turn to copy Instagram while also staying one step ahead of its competitor. Today Snapchat launched a slew of new creative tools, several of which mimic Instagram’s features including the option to remove the 10-second time limit on viewing photos that...