As with last week, clouds continue to show off their AI capabilities this week, Google joins the conversational AI chatter, DataOps starts gaining traction, self-driving cars are the flavor of the week as the race to capture the autonomous vehicle market heats up. Here is a quick rundown of news in the data science space worth your attention!
News Highlights
- Apple self-driving cars are back? VoxelNet may drive the autonomous vehicles
- Amazon ML Solutions Lab to help customers “work backwards” and leverage machine learning
- Amazon Rekognition can now ‘recognize’ faces in a crowd at real-time
- New MapR Platform 6.0 powers DataOps
- Announcing Apache Hadoop 2.9.0
- Amazon announces two new deep learning AMIs for machine learning practitioners
- Google launches the Enterprise edition of Dialogflow, its chatbot API
In other News
24th Nov.’ 17 – Headlines
- Big-data company Qubole brings Apache Spark to AWS Lambda
- Now visualize Bitcoin Blockchain in 3D and Virtual Reality
- China’s Baidu to begin production of autonomous self-driving bus in 2018
23rd Nov.’ 17 – Headlines
- SAP enhances S/4HANA Cloud with new customer-centric features for improved user experience
- Valorem Foundation announces new cryptocurrency platform
22nd Nov.’ 17 – Headlines
- Amazon Rekognition can now detect texts and real-time faces with 10% more accuracy
- Japan unveils first quantum computer that is 100x faster than supercomputers
21st Nov.’ 17 – Headlines
- Bitcoin price hits record high, crosses $8000
- Amazon EMR 5.10.0 released: support for Apache MXNet, GPU instance types P3 and P2, and Presto integration with the AWS Glue Data Catalog
- Google Cloud Platform cuts the price of GPUs by up to 36 percent
20th Nov.’ 17 – Headlines
- Olympus – A new tool that instantly creates a REST API for any AI model
- SAP Vora introduced into Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
- Visa kicks off pilot phase of “Visa B2B Connect” blockchain-based platform, commercial launch in mid-2018
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