Mitchell Leff/Getty Images Russell Wilson has made plenty of waves throughout the infancy of the 2021 offseason. So much so that roughly a third of the league has called the Seattle Seahawks to see what it may take to acquire the superstar quarterback via trade, according to Michael Silver of the NFL Network. While Seattle […]
Brightloom, a company that’s setting out to help brands use transaction data to predict what a customer may want to buy next and how much they may spend, has raised $15 million and officially launched its platform out of stealth. The launch comes as companies across the spectrum invest in digital and look to capitalize […]
Lumiata, a company providing AI-powered predictive analytics for managing health care costs, has raised $14 million. The company says it’ll use the funds to scale its platform and invest in customer acquisition ahead of the opening of an office in Guadalajara, Mexico in 2021. As many as 3.5 million hospital stays among adults in 2017 […]
Amazon today launched the Forecast Weather Index, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) product the company says can increase the forecasting accuracy of certain AI models by incorporating local weather information. Starting today, AWS customers can add 14-day weather forecasts for U.S. and several Europe locations to their demand predictions. As Amazon notes, weather conditions can […]
How much information about a person’s behavior can you ascertain from a wearable device? Researchers at the University of Cambridge and Alan Turing Institute sought to investigate this in a study involving over 280,000 hours of wrist accelerometer and wearable electrocardiogram (ECG) data. They claim they successfully trained classifiers on the dataset to capture physiologically […]
Amazon Web Services (AWS) today open-sourced a new simulator and machine learning toolkit for anticipating and mitigating the spread of COVID-19. AWS says that the suite, which comprises a disease progression simulator and models to test the impact of various intervention strategies, can help to accurately capture many of the complexities of the virus in […]
With three picks in the first round of the NHL draft on Tuesday, New Jersey Devils general manager Tom Fitzgerald faces a bit of a dilemma. Though the prospect pool is considered deep, Fitzgerald is having difficulty sorting in which order the selections might fall. “There’s a lot of talent, especially in the top 10, […]
An MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) team claims to have developed an AI system that can analyze X-rays to anticipate certain kinds of heart failure. By detecting signs of excess fluid in the lungs, a condition known as pulmonary edema, the researchers say it can quantify heart failure severity on a four-level […]
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