• Machine Learning and Big Data in the Quantum Computing Age

    In the information technology age, on an average 2.5 exabytes of data is produced every day, which is equivalent to the content of 5 million laptops. Humongous isn’t it? Here is more, on a daily basis, every minute 3.2 billion global internet users add massive data to the data banks with 347,222 Tweets, 4.2 million Facebook likes, 9,722 […]

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    Microsoft Makes Its ‘Cognitive Toolkit’ Deep Learning Software Available to All

    Microsoft Makes Its ‘Cognitive Toolkit’ Deep Learning Software Available to All HIGHLIGHTS Company claims toolkit is faster than its competitors Contains tools used for company’s speech recognition system The tools were also used for development of virtual assistant Cortana Microsoft has made the updated version of its Cognitive Toolkit, the same set of tools that […]

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    Flipkart, Paytm founders lead $1 million investment round in online learning platform Unacademy

    Image credit: Unacademy – YouTube Online learning startup Unacademy has secured $1 million (approximately Rs 6.7 crore) in an investment round in which entrepreneurs such as Flipkart co-founders Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal as well as Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma participated. The round, led by Blume Ventures, is the second such for the company, which […]

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    HP announces new machine learning as a service offering

    Technology major Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced the commercial launch of Haven OnDemand, a cloud platform that provides advanced machine learning application programme interfaces and services that enable developers, startups and enterprises to build data-rich mobile and enterprise applications. The company also announced a new version of Idol analytics platform, which applies data analytics and […]

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    Start-up studies: Learning to be an entrepreneur

    IIM-B is ready to make entrepreneurship education part of its flagship PG programme from the coming academic year. Photo: Hemant Mishra/Mint Two years into her job in a leading information technology (IT) company, Varsha Ramachandran, 27, got bored and decided to quit for a creative career—a start-up that would help organizations and companies “redefine green […]