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REPORT: Facebook Page Posts Have Shorter Shelf Lives Than Previously Reported
Timing is everything, and that especially holds true for posts on Facebook pages, as Facebook analytics provider Wise Metrics found that the life span of those posts may be even shorter than previously...
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Are You Smarter Than A Supercomputer? It Depends.
Who knows what is best for your customers? You or a computer algorithm? That is the question that big data has raised for many marketers. And like all great questions, the answer is, “It depends.” I’ve...
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Yahoo buys image-recognition startup LookFlow
Shutterstock Nov. 12 - 13, 2013 San Francisco, CA Tickets On Sale Now Yahoo has just acquired LookFlow, an image recognition/machine learning startup, for an undisclosed sum. The five-engineer team...
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BigML says its machine learning tech makes data science easy
Michael O'Donnell/VentureBeatDavid Gerster, vice president of data science at BigML.REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — When data scientists talk about their work, it isn’t always easy to understand. At the same...
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The data is not enough: Creative data scientists make the difference
Michael O'Donnell/VentureBeat Michael Driscoll of Metamarkets; Pete Warden of Jetpac; Monica Rogati of Jawbone; Peter Skomoroch, formerly of LinkedIn; and Jeremy Howard of Singularity...
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Facebook Moves Forward With Big Plans for Artificial Intelligence
Facebook is seeking intelligence. Artificial intelligence, that is The company is reportedly moving forward with a new research laboratory intended to "bring about major changes in artificial...
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Scientists exploring computers that can learn and adapt
Vladgrin/ShutterstockFor six or seven decades, computers have been based on processing electronic 1s and 0s. Now, computer scientists are breaking out of that paradigm in strange new directions, as...
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4 big data predictions that won’t happen in 2014 — and 1 that will
imagedb.com/ShutterstockExecutives, analysts, and, yes, writers have been spilling out predictions for big data this year, but some of them seem a bit outlandish. Just to be sure we weren’t crazy,...
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Under the hood: How Facebook built Trending topics with natural language...
dolphfyn / ShutterstockToday, Facebook launched Trending, a new feature that shows you relevant-to-you topics that are spiking in popularity. It’s like Twitter’s trending topics feature, except that...
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What big-data VCs are sick of — and what they really want
Source: sboneham/FlickrSprinkling some big-data sauce on sales or marketing software won’t get a dime out of these moneybags. Four prominent venture capitalists who have funded big-data companies...
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Wise.io grabs $2.5M to bring machine learning for the cosmos right to your...
Image Credit: NASA Goddard Photo and Video/FlickrThe founders of Wise.io first developed their machine learning technology to help astronomers discover and categorize new stars. Now they’ve adapted it...
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Theneeds is more than ‘yet another personalized news feed’
Image Credit: TheneedsYou may think you’ve heard and seen it all when it comes to apps for content personalization and discovery. It’s a crowded field, but as yet, there’s no clear winner. Theneeds, a...
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A smarter help-desk: Zendesk gets brainier with Wise.io integration
Image Credit: Illustration by Eric Blattberg / VentureBeatZendesk, Wall Street’s latest technology darling, has soaked up some machine learning smarts courtesy of the nerds at Wise.io. Zendesk, the...
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One Woman’s Path to Data Science
What’s the best way to optimize click-through rates on a smartphone? Put it on a flashlight app so the people frantically trying to turn the light on in the dark click over and over and over and over...
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Ersatz Labs launches with hardware and software for all your deep learning needs
Above: Dave Sullivan, co-founder and chief executive of Ersatz Labs.Image Credit: Screen shotA startup called Ersatz Labs wants to help lots of companies intelligently answer lots of questions after...
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Can Microsoft’s Newest Azure Service Help Change the Future?
No, Microsoft’s new boss, Satya Nadella, hasn’t gone loopy on you. But today the world’s largest software provider unveils a cloud-based, big data/analytics solution to help enterprises predict the...
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LinkedIn Acquires Newsle To Deliver More Relevant News About Your Connections
LinkedIn announced today that it has acquired Newsle, the machine-learning startup founded to help users pare down the ample noise coming across social networks and give them relevant info about their...
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Microsoft clues partners in to its new machine-learning service in the cloud
Image Credit: Screen shotSure, anyone can start playing with the preview edition of Microsoft’s new cloud-based software for doing predictive analytics, Azure Machine Learning. But Microsoft has...
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Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence Engine Can Tell a Beagle From a Bro
Although many of us still rely on search engines like Google to provide us with answers to a wide range of questions, Microsoft Research has just delivered a peek at a future in which neural networks...
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PredictionIO’s $2.5M money bag suggests open-source is right for machine...
Image Credit: Mark Skipper/FlickrPredictionIO, a startup that has crafted an open-source program developers can use to add machine-learning smarts into their applications, might just be the setting the...
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