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The director of Baidu’s Silicon Valley AI Lab has departed

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 Adam Coates, director of Baidu’s Silicon Valley AI Lab, has left the company, according to a recent LinkedIn update from Coates. Coates joined the Chinese search giant back in May of 2014 to lead a California-based team of 50 machine learning developers. Baidu has built up an established proficiency in natural language processing. While at Baidu, Coates publicly evangelized… Read More Continue reading The director of Baidu’s Silicon Valley AI Lab has departed→

Here are the winners of the Google Cloud machine learning pitch-off

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 Back in March at Google’s Cloud Next conference, the company announced plans to run its own machine learning startup competition side-by-side with Data Collective and Emergence Capital. Four months later, 10 startups, pulled from a pool of 350+ applicants, presented onstage at Google’s Launchpad Space in San Francisco. The startups vied for three prizes; here are the winners. Read More Continue reading Here are the winners of the Google Cloud machine learning pitch-off→

Google’s Unique Reach tells marketers when you’ve seen the same ad a gazillion times

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 We have all suffered the pain of seeing the same ad for a BBQ grill we can’t fit in our apartment on our phone, tablet, laptop and work desktop. The duplication is not only annoying, it’s wasteful for advertisers.
At Google’s Marketing Next conference in San Francisco, the company announced Unique Reach, a new measurement tool that captures the number of times the same… Read More Continue reading Google’s Unique Reach tells marketers when you’ve seen the same ad a gazillion times→

Google Attribution is a free and easy way to evaluate marketing efforts

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 At Google’s Marketing Next conference, the company is announcing a new beta for Google Attribution, a free tool for examining the role that different marketing strategies play in customer purchasing decisions.
Regardless of device or marketing channel, Google wants Attribution to be a home for evaluating marketing campaigns. By creating a tight loop between strategy, ad spend and… Read More Continue reading Google Attribution is a free and easy way to evaluate marketing efforts→

Google is now using deep learning to measure store visits

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 Google is announcing a major update to its store visits measurement tool today at its Google Marketing Next conference. Google has used anonymized location and contextual data since 2014 to estimate brick and mortar store visits spurred by online… Continue reading Google is now using deep learning to measure store visits→

Airbnb’s new open source library lets you design with React and render to Sketch

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 Today, Airbnb’s design team open sourced its internal library for writing React components that easily render directly to Sketch. Instead of trying to get Sketch to export to code, the Airbnb team spent its time on the opposite — putting the paintbrush in the hands of the engineer.
Everyday engineers and designers have the luxury of operating without design systems, but large… Read More Continue reading Airbnb’s new open source library lets you design with React and render to Sketch→

Udacity is going to help Facebook teach engineers within its Developer Circles

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 Facebook’s been steadily growing its Developer Circles initiative in recent months and today the company provided an update on growth and announced a new partnership with Udacity during its annual F8 conference. Developer Circles is Facebook’s community-driven initiative for engaging with and training developers. Facebook’s VP of Partnerships, Ime Archibing, explained… Read More Continue reading Udacity is going to help Facebook teach engineers within its Developer Circles→

Robert W. Taylor, Who Helped Create the Internet, Dies at 85

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The Internet just lost one of its most prominent innovators.

Robert W Taylor, a computer scientist who was instrumental in creating the Internet as well as the modern personal computer, has died at the age of 85.

Mr. Taylor, who is best known as the mastermind of ARPAnet (precursor of the Internet), had Parkinson’s disease and died on Thursday at his home in Woodside

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Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of the Web, Wins $1 Million Turing Award 2016

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Sir Tim Berners-Lee — the inventor of the World Wide Web — has won this year’s A.M. Turing Award, which is frequently described as the “Nobel Prize of Computing,” by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Turing Award is named after Alan Mathison Turing, the British mathematician and computer scientist who was a key contributor to the Allied cryptanalysis of German Enigma cipher and

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Spammers expose over a billion email addresses after failed backup

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 At its height, River City Media, run by Alvin Slocombe and Matt Ferris, sent out a billion emails a day, slamming Gmail servers with fragmented traffic in order to ensure all of its email went out on time. After failing to password-protect a remo… Continue reading Spammers expose over a billion email addresses after failed backup→