Apple’s Live Text lets you interact with text in your photos Apple has introduced a new feature to its camera system that automatically recognizes and transcribes text in your photos, from a phone number on…
It’s time for security teams to embrace security data lakes Dan Schoenbaum Contributor Share on Twitter Dan Schoenbaum is a two-time CEO and a two-time COO in cybersecurity. Today, he is a managing partner…
Brazil’s idwall raises $38M for identity validation platform Online fraud and identity theft is a global problem that has only been exacerbated with increased online transactions amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular,…
Meet Justos, the new Brazilian insurtech that just got backing from the CEOs of 7 unicorns Here in the U.S. the concept of using driver’s data to decide the cost of auto insurance premiums is not a new one. But…
Emotion-detection software startup Affectiva acquired for $73.5M Smart Eye, the publicly traded Swedish company that supplies driver monitoring systems for a dozen automakers, has acquired emotion-detection software startup Affectiva for $73.5…
Microsoft Azure launches enterprise support for PyTorch Microsoft today announced PyTorch Enterprise, a new Azure service that provides developers with additional support when using PyTorch on Azure. It’s basically Microsoft’s commercial…
British AI startup Faculty raises $42.5M growth round led by Apax Digital Fund British artificial intelligence (AI) company, Faculty has raised £30 million ($42.5M) in growth funding from the Apax Digital Fund (ADF). The startup has now…
Extra Crunch roundup: Jam City SPAC, startup PR, telemedicine market map, more For this morning’s edition of The Exchange, Alex Wilhelm studied information recently released by mobile gaming studio Jam City as it prepares to go…
Climate risk platform Cervest raises $30M Series A led by Draper Esprit Cervest – a startup with a platform that claims to quantify climate risk across multiple decades and threats down to the asset level –…
Google Maps to add more detailed maps, crowd indicators, better routing and more Google has announced a series of updates soon coming to Google Maps, as part of the company’s larger goal of delivering over 100 A.I.-powered…
Google’s LaMDA makes conversations with AIs more conversational As far as AI systems have come in their ability to recognize what you’re saying and respond, they’re still very easily confused unless you…
Healios raises $10M to scale its mental health platform for children scarred by the COVID-19 pandemic Heaven knows what will happen to the mental health of children who’ve gone through this past year but if there’s one thing we need…
Google Analytics prepares for life after cookies As consumer behavior and expectations around privacy have shifted — and operating systems and browsers have adapted to this — the age of cookies…
With new owner Naver, Wattpad looks to supercharge its user-generated IP factory Toronto-based Wattpad is officially part of South Korean internet giant Naver as of today, with the official close of the $600 million cash and…
Longevity startup Gero AI has a mobile API for quantifying health changes Sensor data from smartphones and wearables can meaningfully predict an individual’s ‘biological age’ and resilience to stress, according to Gero AI. The ‘longevity’ startup…
AI is ready to take on a massive healthcare challenge Einat Metzer Contributor Share on Twitter Einat Metzer is CEO and co-founder of Emedgene, a leading precision medicine intelligence company. Which disease results in…
Analytics as a service: Why more enterprises should consider outsourcing Joey Lei Contributor Share on Twitter Joey Lei is director of service management at Synoptek. With more than 14 years of experience in engineering…
Computer vision inches towards ‘common sense’ with Facebook’s latest research Machine learning is capable of doing all sorts of things as long as you have the data to teach it how. That’s not always…
How Shopify aims to level the playing field with its machine learning-driven model of lending Shopify is widely known for giving independent merchants a platform to start, run, market and manage their businesses. But over the past 5 years,…
Materials Zone raises $6M for its materials discovery platform Materials Zone, a Tel Aviv-based startup that uses AI to speed up materials research, today announced that it has raised a $6 million seed…