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Google today explained how its researchers have improved the speech recognition systems underlying the transcription for voicemails in Google Voice. Last month Google disclosed that the recognition error rate in Google Voice had gone down by 50 percent, and now Google is talking about how it achieved that success. In short, Google rebuilt the transcription […]... →

Today's guest on Hack the Entrepreneur is the President and Founder of PledgeMusic, a direct-to-fan company that offers musicians a unique way to engage with their fans during the music-making process. He is an independent musician who received the A&R Worldwide Digital Executive of the Year award in 2014 and appeared in the 2013 Billboard 40 Under 40 Power Players list.... →

Posted by Françoise Beaufays, Research Scientist Over the past several years, deep learning has shown remarkable success on some of the world's most difficult computer science challenges, from image classification and captioning to translation to model visualization techniques . Recently we announced improvements to Google Voice transcription using Long Short-term Memory Recurrent Neural Networks (LSTM RNNs)"yet another place neural networks are improving useful services.... →

At the Disrupt NY hackathon this year the winning hack was a live-streaming app called Witness whose team’s pitch was a desire to be the panic button for the mobile age. But what about sticky situations where you don’t have time to fire up an app? That’s where Connecticut-based startup Wearsafe Labs is hoping to step in, with a hardware panic button also updated for the app era. Read More... →

There were inklings of hints that this was the frattiest startup of all time. For starters, the subject line of the email pitch was “Not Porn” and it was about an app called Drunk Mode that helps wastoids avoid the unsightly ramifications of getting wasted. The app was started by Josh Anton in 2013 during his time at University of Virginia. He told me that he thought of the… Read More... →

Last week, I visited payments company Square. I sat down with their Hardware Lead, Jesse Dorogusker, about much more than hardware. Dorogusker, a former Director of Engineering at Apple, discussed with me how the company has evolved to much more than a dongle that accepts payments. Not only has the hardware itself evolved, but the company is serving an important role other than just being… Read More... →

It has been difficult to attract investors to the digital startup space in Latin America. This is because of a variety of reasons, including the lack of a track record of established VC firms in Latin America, the immaturity of the new generation of entrepreneurs and the scarcity of exit strategies in the region. Read More... →

Павел Баскир запустит в Москве и Московской области сеть кружков робототехники для детей с 7 лет и старше под маркой и технологией проекта «Лига роботов» из Новосибирска.... →

Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Microsoft and Yahoo back up $12M round for Unify Square Unify Square closed a $12 million “series B extension” round led by Microsoft. The startups announced today that the round had indicated back […]... →

Before social media entered the stage, a marketer's job was two-fold: write a compelling landing page and drive traffic to that landing page. But the Internet has changed all of that. Not so much the Internet, but social media. In particular " networks like Twitter, Reddit, 4chan, and YouTube " the most potent platforms for transmitting and spreading an idea. The influence these sites have had on web writing is huge.... →

A few points, dear reader, to get ourselves acclimated: Windows 10 landed in the market at the beginning of this month to moderately strong reviews Microsoft is hellbent on attracting a user base for its new operating system quickly A large Windows 10 user install base implies higher rates of app downloads. That makes extant developers happy, and attracts new developers. The more and better… Read More... →

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Join us for this live webinar on Thursday, August 13 at 10 a.m. Pacific, 1 p.m. Eastern. Register here for free.  For those in the know, the future of personalization can look pretty scary. There’s certainly just as much evil as good that can be done with our information, and the tools at a marketer’s fingertips to […]... →

Google, the largest subsidiary corporation of Alphabet, wants movie studios to use its cloud to render their special effects. Last August, Google acquired Zync, a visual effects rendering service that allows studios and independent artists to render their works in the cloud. Today, the company announced that it will open up the first beta of Zync on its Cloud Platform next week on August 20. Read More... →

Партнер адвокатского бюро Buzko Kokorin Илья Кокорин написал для ЦП колонку о том, смогут ли российские таксомоторные компании победить Uber, основываясь на опыте своих европейских коллег.... →

Microsoft today announced a preview of new iOS and Android apps for Skype for Business, a piece of software that’s meant as a modern-day replacement for Microsoft Lync. Microsoft made Skype for Business generally available in April and released a Skype for Business app for Windows Phone last month. Now the app is becoming available […]... →

Social data company Gnip, acquired by Twitter last year, has become an indispensable tool for all types of companies. Data, especially social data, is necessary to make decisions on things like timing a product launch or putting together a new marketing campaign. Until now, companies have been able to pull instant reports using up to 30 days worth of historical tweets. Today, through Gnip,… Read More... →

First it was glitter and dicks. Then it was on-demand everything. Then it was breasts. Startups, please: stop. 2015 has been the year of the awful idea. It began early on this year with a number of services that wanted to send your enemies glitter and cardboard penises. They had all the trappings of a traditional startup – media blitzes, wild founders, and wacky ideas about social… Read More... →

Salesforce Tuesday announced five new Apple Watch apps that were developed by its partner companies as part of its Salesforce Wear development program. The apps, as you might imagine, are geared toward making enterprise employees better equipped to provide better customer service. Salesforce says it has actually developed 20 new Watch apps, but talked about […]... →

3D model repository Sketchfab just added a nifty little feature that should appeal to 3D animators. You can now upload animated models to Sketchfab, and the website will endlessly loop the animation. Currently, the startup supports FBX files, such as files generated by Mixamo. Read More... →