The Colorado River Is Dying. Can Its Aquatic Dinosaurs Be Saved?
The razorback sucker has survived in the river for more than 3 million years. Climate change could end that.
US Border Agents May Have a Copy of Your Text Messages
Plus: An AI artist exposes surveillance of Instagram users, the US charges Iranians over a ransomware campaign, and more.
Robust Online Allocation with Dual Mirror Descent
Posted by Santiago Balseiro, Staff Research Scientist, Google Research, and Associate Professor at Columbia University, and Vahab Mirrokni, Distinguished Scientist, Google Research The emergence of digital technologies has transformed decision making across commercial sectors such as airlines, online retailing, and internet advertising. Today, real-time decisions need to be repeatedly made in highly uncertain and rapidly …
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Discover insights from Zendesk with Amazon Kendra intelligent search
Customer relationship management (CRM) is a critical tool that organizations maintain to manage customer interactions and build business relationships. Zendesk is a CRM tool that makes it easy for customers and businesses to keep in sync. Zendesk captures a wealth of customer data, such as support tickets created and updated by customers and service agents, …
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Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now provides up to three times faster hyperparameter tuning with Hyperband
Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning introduces Hyperband, a multi-fidelity technique to tune hyperparameters as a faster and more efficient way to find an optimal model. In this post, we show how automatic model tuning with Hyperband can provide faster hyperparameter tuning—up to three times as fast. The benefits of Hyperband Hyperband presents two advantages over …
Read webpages and highlight content using Amazon Polly
In this post, we demonstrate how to use Amazon Polly—a leading cloud service that converts text into lifelike speech—to read the content of a webpage and highlight the content as it’s being read. Adding audio playback to a webpage improves the accessibility and visitor experience of the page. Audio-enhanced content is more impactful and memorable, …
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Cloud Wisdom Weekly: 4 ways AI/ML boosts innovation and reduces costs
“Cloud Wisdom Weekly: for tech companies and startups” is a new blog series we’re running this fall to answer common questions our tech and startup customers ask us about how to build apps faster, smarter, and cheaper. In this installment, we explore how to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) for faster innovation …
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Ironclad’s new contract platform embeds AI to improve business workflows
Ironclad yesterday unveiled a new version of its contract platform embedded with an AI layer in an effort to improve business workflows throughout the lifecycle of a contract. Organizations can create contracts 60% faster by automating the contract creation process, according to Jason Boehmig, the company’s CEO and co-founder. They will also have t…Read More
Transforming the supply chain with unified data management
AI, ML, data science and advanced analytics have been game-changers for connecting the world’s supply chains.Read More
Top 5 stories of the week: AI revelations and Apple moves to kill passwords
Revelations, innovations and questions about AI unfolded in VentureBeat’s news coverage this week.Read More