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In recent years, advances in computer vision have enabled researchers, first responders, and governments to tackle the challenging problem of processing global satellite imagery to understand our planet and our impact on it. AWS recently released Amazon SageMaker geospatial capabilities to provide you with satellite imagery and geospatial state-of-the-art machine learning (ML) models, reducing barriers …

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Advancements in whole genome sequencing have ignited a revolution in digital biology. Genomics programs across the world are gaining momentum as the cost of high-throughput, next-generation sequencing has declined. Whether used for sequencing critical-care patients with rare diseases or in population-scale genetics research, whole genome sequencing is becoming a fundamental step in clinical workflows and …

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Posted by Aviral Kumar, Student Researcher, and Sergey Levine, Research Scientist, Google Research Reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms can learn skills to solve decision-making tasks like playing games, enabling robots to pick up objects, or even optimizing microchip designs. However, running RL algorithms in the real world requires expensive active data collection. Pre-training on diverse datasets …

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Over the last 10 years, a number of players have developed autonomous vehicle (AV) systems using deep neural networks (DNNs). These systems have evolved from simple rule-based systems to Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and fully autonomous vehicles. These systems require petabytes of data and thousands of compute units (vCPUs and GPUs) to train. This …

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Posted by Hartmut Neven, VP of Engineering, and Julian Kelly, Director of Quantum Hardware, on behalf of the Google Quantum AI Team Many years from today, scientists will be able to use fault-tolerant quantum computers for large-scale computations with applications across science and industry. These quantum computers will be much bigger than today, consisting of …

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This post is co-written with Swagata Ashwani, Senior Data Scientist at Boomi. Boomi is an enterprise-level software as a service (SaaS) independent software vendor (ISV) that creates developer enablement tooling for software engineers. These tools integrate via API into Boomi’s core service offering. In this post, we discuss how Boomi used the bring-your-own-container (BYOC) approach …

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Society is going cashless. While convenient for consumers, that’s caused a drastic decrease in income for tipped workers and this is the problem TackPay addresses. TackPay is a mobile platform that allows users to send, receive and manage tips in a completely digital way, providing tipped workers with a virtual tip jar that makes it …

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Posted by John Platt, Distinguished Scientist, Google Research (This is Part 7 in our series of posts covering different topical areas of research at Google. You can find other posts in the series here.) It’s an incredibly exciting time to be a scientist. With the amazing advances in machine learning (ML) and quantum computing, we …

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