Movidius on Wednesday announced that it's working with Google to put deep learning on mobile devices.
Google will source Movidius' latest flagship chip -- the MA2450 -- and software development environment, and will contribute to Movidius' neural network technology road map in return.
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- Tuesday, 17 May 2016 02:48
- By Dorothy Allen
Google is now showing extended featured snippets for some queries, which should not surprise anyone.
Google is now showing extended featured snippets, where they add more information to the top featured snippet box for some queries. Featured snippets are often seen in the Google search results wh...
- Tuesday, 17 May 2016 02:33
- By Corey Parker
Isn’t it weird when two big movies come out simultaneously—with exactly the same plot? In a single year, we might have two movies about killer volcanoes (1997), asteroids hitting Earth (1998), Truman Capote (2005), or terrorists taking the White House (2013).
The same bizarre, highly improbable...
- Monday, 16 May 2016 08:33
- By Jasper Solander
According to a recent report, in the time you take to read this sentence, an average of 2.3 million Google searches were conducted. No doubt, Google is our go-to resource. We use it so much that “Google” has become a verb as in, “Just Google it.”
There’s more you can do with Google than m...
- Monday, 16 May 2016 07:54
- By David J. Redcliff
Even though organizations are replacing more and more of their proprietary infrastructure with commodity gear, not every workload is better served by x86-based servers. According to the Maryland-based Ryft Systems Inc., data search is one such use case. The vendor...
The newest en...
- Monday, 16 May 2016 07:29
- By Anthony Frank
This week will bring a raft of software and hardware news from Google, ranging from more details on the new Android N mobile software and the first Tango 3-D motion sensing smartphone to more speculative possibilities such as a new virtual-reality headset and a rival for Amazon’s Echo voice assist...
- Monday, 16 May 2016 07:03
- By Deborah Tannen
The UK Intellectual Property Office is investigating how search engines and social media networks can step up their game to deter piracy. The Government is pushing for voluntary anti-piracy agreements between major Internet companies and entertainment industry groups, but will consider a legislative...
- Monday, 16 May 2016 06:58
- By Barbara Larson
Tesla just made a very smart move: it hired Peter Hochholdinger to oversee production of its vehicles.
Hochholdinger came from Audi, where he spent his entire career doing nothing but building Audis.
At Business Insider, we've tested many vehicles that he bolted together, and no other luxury car...
- Monday, 16 May 2016 06:47
- By Joshua Simon
Artificial intelligence can control self-driving cars, beat the best humans at incredibly complex board games, and fight cancer; but one thing it can't do perfectly is communicate.
To help solve the problem, Google has been feeding it's AI with more than 11,000 unpublished books, including 3,000 st...
- Monday, 16 May 2016 06:40
- By Eric Beaudoin
Flash's death has been slow and painful, and now Google is planning to deal it another blow. Google has detailed plans to start blocking most Flash content with Chrome, with the change targeted toward the end of this year.
Under its current vision, nearly every website would have Flash cont...
- Monday, 16 May 2016 05:51
- By Patrick Moore