Panasonic has announced plans to invest $ 150 million in machine learning technology and artificial intelligence systems based on neural networks.
The Japanese electronics manufacturer plans to invest part of the funds allocated under the venture fund Conductive Ventures II in promising developers of software and equipment for various industries, incl. autopilot, finance, digital healthcare, the future of labor, commerce, manufacturing technology and more.
At the moment, Google, Facebook, Baidu, ABBYY, Cognitive Technologies and other companies are actively working and conducting research in the field of artificial intelligence. The field of application of neural networks is quite diverse – these are text recognition and human language comprehension, semantic search, computer vision, big data analytics, robotics, expert systems, linguistics and much more.
IT giant Google and Singapore’s state-owned investment company Temasek have invested in Indonesia’s largest online store Tokopedia, writes Nikkei Asian Review. The amount of investments is not disclosed. In October, Bloomberg reported that Tokopedia was going to raise about $ 350 million from Google and Temasek. This is Google’s second investment in the Indonesian unicorn. […]
The French company has developed an augmented reality application for digital makeup. The Signature Faces application allows you to apply filters to your face in real time. “We believe that everyone is beautiful by themselves, but in a world where the camera is always on, it’s normal to want to “play” with filters. We want […]
Shares of Amazon, which rose by 73.8% since the beginning of the year (more than the growth of Apple, Microsoft, Google and Facebook), fell 2% after closing trading on Thursday, when the company released a report for the 3rd quarter, which ended September 30. Amazon set a new revenue record, e-commerce increased sales by 57% […]
Shares of Alphabet, which rose 18.2% over the past 6 months, rose 9% after closing trading on Thursday when the global advertising giant announced significant improvements in the reporting quarter. Google’s parent financial report far exceeded analysts’ expectations and showed a resumption of advertising revenue growth after reporting a drop in revenue for the first […]
According to trading data, securities of the microblogging service Twitter Inc. after the close of the main trading session in the US fell in price by more than 17%, also according to financial statements, in the red were the shares of US technology giants Amazon, Apple and Facebook, only Alphabet reporting pleased investors. Thus, shares […]
Apple has intensified work on its own search service, which will become a competitor to Google, writes the Financial Times, citing interlocutors in the mobile industry. One of the signs of this, the interlocutors called the fact that after updating the iOS operating system, Apple began to show its own search results and provide direct […]
In the last week of October, investors expect a lot of news, as more than one-third of the components of the S&P 500 index, or 186 companies, must report financial results for the third quarter. The information field is even richer given the election race in the United States, the situation with the pandemic and […]
French oil and gas company Total and Google Cloud developed technology based on artificial intelligence to assess the potential use of the solar energy in homes. This is stated in the message of the Total. “Total and Google Cloud pooled their expertise to jointly develop innovative tools of the Solar Mapper, which aims to accelerate […]
On October 7, 2016, the protest action was organised by Council of lawyers of the Kyiv city and Lawyers Council of Kiev region took place in Kyiv. Though this action will take place under walls of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. However, the problems to which lawyers will pay attention, don’t concern people’s deputies. It […]
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German airline Deutsche Lufthansa AG on Monday took the third package of measures restructuring of business because of poor dynamic aviation market recovery, according to a press release. “Forecasts for international flights have deteriorated significantly in recent weeks. With the end of the summer holiday season, the number of passengers and bookings is declining again […]
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Gas reserves in Ukraine decreased to 15.47 billion cubic meters, which is 50% of underground storage capacity. This is evidenced by the data of the GTS Operator of Ukraine. As of April 17, gas reserves were 4% lower than a year earlier. It will be recalled that Ukraine has started the heating season with record […]
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Sources say that the air carrier is considering the Ukraine as an addition to its major markets. The largest European low-cost airlines Ryanair sizes up the Ukrainian market of air transportation, in particular, the discussions with Lviv are underway. This was announced in an interview to the forbes.net.ua by the Commercial Director of the airlines, […]
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NASA has provided to Nokia with $ 14.1 million to deploy 4G (LTE) network on the moon. The US space agency noted that telecommunications networks of this standard will be able to provide more reliable than radio signals, communication on the Earth’s satellite, where it is planned to build the lunar base by 2028. NASA […]
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Tesla is recalling about 50,000 Model S and Model X cars manufactured in the United States in different years and imported to China due to the identified suspension problems. This was reported on its website by the Chinese State Administration of Market Regulation. According to the statement of the Chinese regulator, almost 30 thousand Model […]
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What are the risks of medical reform in Ukraine? What it must change? Will the industry be funded as stated? Will insurance medicine work and how the market for medical services will be? Medicine established on authorities VS medicine established on evidence In November 2016, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved the Concept of […]
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Personal position, incredible belief in yourself and in what you do, the constant acquisition of new skills and flexibility, having learned which, in the future you will be able to beat usefully any idea. These are the most important principles by which develops business, said business manager Yuliia Zoteeva. During her training Yuliia substantiate her […]
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The “Agrotrade” Company Group renegotiated long-term agreements with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) for the next 5 years, – said the press service of the company. According to the report, it will be key to the success of the Group companies, to improve the investment climate in the region, economic development and […]
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The German publishing holding Axel Springer will purchase the Politico policy site. This was reported by the press service of Axel Springer. The holding has signed an agreement with the founder and publisher of Politico, Robert Allbritton, to acquire the American company Politico and the news website Protocol, which specializes in the technology sector. The […]
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World oil prices of reference brands began the working week with a moderate increase amid disruptions in the US Colonial Pipeline after a hacker attack. This is evidenced by trading data on Monday, May 10. Thus, July futures for Brent on the London Stock Exchange ICE Futures rose by $ 0.57 (0.83%) – to $ […]
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Pfizer CEO Albert Burla has postponed a visit to Israel because he has not yet been fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Burla himself and members of the delegation have not yet received a second dose of the vaccine. The Pfizer spokesman stressed that they are still interested in visiting Israel. Now the visit can be postponed […]
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In the current 2017 the debt amount that is obligated to return Ukraine to the International Monetary Fund is $ 1 billion. Given the fact that the state at present is in anticipation of the next transfer of credit funds from the Fund, in fact, it will be “shifted from one pocket to other”. This […]
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The Kyiv Administrative Court of Appeal found guilty the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) in bankruptcy of the Ukrgazprombank. This is stated in the judgment from April 26 in the case N826 / 26255/15, writes UBR. The NBU actions were called “illegally inactive” by the decision. Thus, was confirmed the decision of the previous court – the District […]
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Apple CEO Tim Cook doubts that he will hold the post for another 10 years. He stated this in an interview published on Monday in The New York Times. Asked if he would head Apple during that time, Cook said: “Another 10 years. Probably not.” He added that now the specific time when he could […]
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The offices and apartments of the A-95 consulting group were searched on Tuesday, July 13. The company’s director Serhiy Kuyun connects them with exposing materials about the BRSM-nafta gas station network. “Today in our apartments and the office of the consulting group A-95 were searched, equipment was seized. The last thing they said:” The police […]
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