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Artificially intelligent (AI) systems have imbued robots with the ability to with , and now, researchers say they’ve developed an algorithm through which machines might learn to walk on their own. In a preprint paper published on Arxiv.org (““), scientists from the University of California, Berkeley and Google Brain, one of Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) research divisions, describe an AI […]

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Amazon is planning a Whole Foods expansion in the U.S., according to a report by The Wall Street Journal published this weekend. The goal is to put more customers within the range of Amazon’s two-hour Prime Now delivery service, including those in suburban areas outside cities, as well as those in regions where the grocer […]

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Amazon is planning a Whole Foods expansion in the U.S., according to a report by The Wall Street Journal published this weekend. The goal is to put more customers within the range of Amazon’s two-hour Prime Now delivery service, including those in suburban areas outside cities, as well as those in regions where the grocer […]

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CEO recently told us how helped bring back Atari, which, when Chesnais took it over in 2013, had $34 million in debut and a paltry $1 million in revenue. Now,  reports that it has no debt, and it recently closed 2018 with good revenue growth (27 percent for the last six months) and strong operating income […]

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Dyslexia — a language-based learning disability that includes poor word reading, word decoding, oral reading fluency, and spelling — is fairly common. Some surveys estimate that one in 10 people, or about 40 million people in the U.S. and 700 million children and adults worldwide, have dyslexia. And according to the , 70 to 80 percent […]

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Dana Stalder Contributor Dana Stalder is a general partner at Matrix Partners and invests in fintech, consumer marketplaces and enterprise software. More posts by this contributor Financial technology startups emerged as serious challengers to financial services in 2017 New rules for hiring executive candidates Allen Miller Contributor Allen Miller is a venture captialist at Matrix […]

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I thought the worst thing about Popsugar’s Twinning tool was that it matched me with James Corden. Turns out, the hundreds of thousands of selfies uploaded to the tool can be downloaded by anyone who knows where to look. The popular photo matching tool taking the web by storm is fairly simple. “It analyzes a selfie […]

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Popular streaming sites like and Hulu have an incredible amount of content. With a single click, you can dial up most of your favorite shows and movies without having to deal with an increasingly antiquated cable connection — making it easy to binge-watch content any time, any place. But when it comes to documentaries, these […]

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We may look back one day on 2018 as the year the great cryptocurrency dream died. And the case of banking startup may serve as a cautionary tale of the risks that were always inherent in this relatively unregulated sector. Founded in my backyard of Toulouse, France, Hush was a “neo-bank” that claimed it wanted […]

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While the thought of a machine that can squirt out endless ropes of molten glass is a bit frightening, the folks at MIT have just about perfected the process. In a paper published in 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing, researchers Chikara Inamura, Michael Stern, Daniel Lizardo, Peter Houk, and Neri Oxman describe a system for […]

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