Week at a Glance (18th – 24th Nov. ‘17): Top News from Data Science

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 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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