

Verizon picks Unity as 5G MEC partner for 3D enterprise apps and games

Google launches suite of AI-powered solutions for retailers

Cure.fit acquires AI body tracker Onyx to enable two-way workout videos

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OpenAI’s text-to-image engine, DALL-E, is a powerful visual idea generator

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2021 tech will be about cloud and the workplace shift

Salesforce researchers release framework to test NLP model robustness

Glia raises $78 million to digitize customer service interactions

Virtual events platform Hopin acquires video streaming studio StreamYard for $250 million

Hootsuite acquires Sparkcentral to unify and automate social customer service

Hands-on: Looking Glass Portrait is a window into the holographic data era

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Virtual events came of age in 2020, but the future is hybrid

OneTrust raises $300 million to automate data governance and compliance

RunwayML raises $8.5 million for its AI-powered media creation tools

How nonprofits are transforming their remote programming to support girls in STEM

Deloitte’s 2021 predictions: online doctor visits will top 400 million and the pandemic will spur cloud growth

Researchers find that even ‘fair’ hiring algorithms can be biased

Avaaz: Facebook continues to fail at flagging false and misleading posts about U.S. elections

Bizzabo raises $138 million as events industry goes hybrid

AI still struggles to recognize hateful memes, but it’s slowly improving

Supernormal brings AI-powered asynchronous video messaging to remote teams

How Mark Kelly used conversational AI to help win a Senate seat

Glue raises $8 million to automate customer loyalty programs

Verbit raises $60 million to improve enterprise-focused transcription software

Tencent Music invests in Wave to bring a musical metaverse to China

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Why pollsters should stop calling and start texting

Cogito raises $25 million to analyze phone calls with AI

Chrome 87 brings tab throttling, Occlusion Tracking on Windows, back/forward cache on Android

Firefox 83 arrives with HTTPS-Only Mode and faster performance

Google Maps gains driving mode and food delivery status

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ProBeat: Google still needs you to label photos for its ML

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Pandorabots’ Bot Battle highlights lack of industrywide metrics for open domain AI

How Google built its AI-powered Hum to Search feature

Amazon’s new Alexa feature uses AI to infer what users really want

LinkedIn open-sources Dagli, a machine learning library for Java

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Kochava acquires database firm Thalamus to connect ad buyers and vendors

Trump will lose special Twitter protections when Biden takes office

How AI predictions fared against pollsters in the 2020 U.S. election

Ushur raises $25 million to automate customer service workflows

Vive X la révolution: Emissive brings VR expeditions to museums
