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DEMO: ExpertMaker brings AI search tools to developers

ExpertMaker is one of 70 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Fall 2010 event taking place this week in Silicon Valley. After our selection, the companies pay a fee to present. Our...

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Google pulls an Asimov, announces self-driving cars smart enough to take on...

“So we have developed technology for cars that can drive themselves,” Google engineer Sebastian Thrun nonchalantly announced on the company’s blog earlier this afternoon. Thrun, who is the director of...

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Early Facebook execs back artificial-intelligence startup Vicarious Systems

It looks like several key players from the early days of Facebook have taken an interest in an artificial intelligence startup called Vicarious Systems. The company, which is based in Union City,...

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Lymbix's ToneCheck pre-screens the tone of your emails

Email is fast and quick, but it’s often tone-deaf. When we send a message in the heat of the moment, we don’t think about the consequences of what happens when the person receiving it misinterprets the...

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Why Retrevo thinks it can outsell Amazon.com

Watch out, Amazon.com: Someone’s trying to bump your shopping cart. Consumer-electronics review site Retrevo today launched a marketplace that combines e-commerce and research for tech shopping. It’s...

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Google lobbies Nevada to be first state for self-driving cars

Google hasn’t given up on its sci-fi ambitions to make self-driving cars a reality. The company is now lobbying Nevada to be the first state to legally allow self-driving cars on public roads, the New...

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Google self-driving Prius gets into first accident, thanks to human error

For the first time, one of Google’s much-hyped self-driving cars has been in a car accident, according to auto blog Jalopnik. But it’s actually a mere human’s fault. Google said the accident, in which...

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Dylan’s Desk: Siri is the grandmother of Marvin the Paranoid Android

EDITOR’S NOTE: Each week, I’m writing a column on business and technology called Dylan’s Desk, while Dean Takahashi is writing a column on video games called The DeanBeat. They are available to...

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Siri sibling Trapit launches as intelligent discovery engine for the web’s...

Say hello to Trapit. The latest offspring from CALO, the DARPA-commissioned artificial-intelligence project that gave birth to iPhone virtual assistant Siri, launches in public beta Tuesday as a...

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Why it’s China’s turn to worry about manufacturing

America has been extremely worried about the loss of manufacturing to China. Seduced by subsidies, cheap labor, lax regulations, and a rigged currency, American industry has made a beeline to China....

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Beyond Siri: What AI means for the future of mobile devices and search

Today, we are overwhelmed with content overflow — consuming information about our social networks, our global news, our daily jobs and responsibilities –and, for a growing number of us, all through...

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Crowd computing taps artificial intelligence to revolutionize the power of...

The two hundred people packed into a small screening room in Midtown Manhattan on a recent Tuesday night made quite a throng. Engineers, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurs sipped Sam Adams and...

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Gogobot hires SRI scientist to add artificial intelligence to its travel apps...

I recently spent a few days with my family at a ski lodge in the Sierras. While we were there, we noticed a young French couple who spent the vast majority of their time sitting by the fire, staring...

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Trapit for iPad aims to fix mobile browsing with artificial intelligence

Browsing is flawed — on the Web, but even more so on mobile. That’s the message Trapit co-founder Hank Nothhaft conveyed to me as he demoed his solution to the problem: a Trapit iPad application that...

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A.I. research firm Vicarious raises $15M in its first round

Vicarious is building A.I. software based on the human brain. Sounds cool, right? VCs thought so, too, and they backed it up with $15 million in the startup’s first round of institutional funding. The...

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New patent: Google knows what’s in that video you uploaded (and probably...

YouTube could make more money. Video search could get much, much better. And that laborious process of tagging every video you upload to YouTube with all the keywords you can possibly think of might...

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ZenRobotics embraces the four R’s: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Robots

ZenRobotics has raised $17 million by creating Wall-E for industry. The company brings together high technology and recycling to address the world’s trash problem. Its flagship product is the...

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Even Ray Kurzweil is nervous about a future with hyper-intelligent machines

Ray Kurzweil is looking forward to the year 2029. That’s the year he predicts our technology will be able to think without us — aka the date that computers pass the Turing test. Our computers are...

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Google uses its artificial intelligence to improve speech recognition

  Google unveiled its artificial intelligence software this summer that could recognize faces of cats, people and other things by training on YouTube videos. The technology is now being used to improve...

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Can Google compete with the next generation of search engines?

This is a guest post by entrepreneur Lars Hård Over the past 14 years, Google has set the standard for online search. The ability to access expansive amounts of information on a global scale and...

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