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Google Releases AI Training Data Set With 5 Million Images And 200,000 Landmarks
Posted in Online, Software on 3rd May, 2019
by Alex Muller
In a significant step toward its goal of more sophisticated landmark-detecting computer vision models, Google open-sourced Google-Landmarks-v2, a new, larger landmark recognition corpus containing twice as many photos and seven times as many landmarks.
Google Completes Subsea Cable To Chile
Posted in Business, Featured, Hardware, Online on 25th Apr, 2019
by Alex Muller
Alphabet Inc’s Google has completed a subsea cable linking the coast of California to Chile, a key step in its plans to bolster its global cloud computing infrastructure.
Pinterest Shares Rise 28% On First Day Of Trading, Worth $13 Billion
Posted in Business, Online on 19th Apr, 2019
by Alex Muller
Pinterest’s IPO also marks the end of an era in some regards. It’s likely the last of the previous generation of social media startups to enter the public markets. Founded in 2009, it watched as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Snap all held IPOs.
SpaceX $500 Million Fundraising And First 75 Starlink Satellites
Posted in Business, Hardware, Online on 17th Apr, 2019
by Alex Muller
SpaceX should start launching the prototype Starlink satellite constellation starting in May.
Google’s Cloud Services Platform Is Now Anthos, And It Works With AWS And Azure
Posted in Business, Online, Software on 10th Apr, 2019
by Alex Muller
Anthos is the new name for the Cloud Services Platform, which Google introduced in beta for hybrid cloud management last year. Google also introduced Anthos Migrate in beta for portability across clouds without the need to modify apps or virtual machines.