Google and WhatsApp are using AI to kick users, flag spam on a massive scale

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Google is using machine learning to block more spam on Gmail. WhatsApp is trying to cut users who spread fake news as an election looms in India.

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Google splits search and AI operations as ex-division chief joins Apple to reboot Siri

Apple is looking to step up its AI efforts with the help of Google's former machine learning and search division head, while the search giant is splitting the two operations and promoting a couple of veteran employees.

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Google Pixel Visual Core is the company’s machine-learning co-processor for Pixel 2

It's the company's first silicon and it's here to help the Pixel 2's image processing from computational work to HDR brushes.

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It’s alive: Latest Huawei Mate 10 event teaser promises an ‘intelligent machine’

The fast-approaching Huawei Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro are no longer compared with the iPhone X or Galaxy Note 8, simply promising to feel "alive."

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Robots with soul? Alexa gets personality, Google Assistant gets jokes

What’s the deal with these voice assistants? You want them to do a job like telling you when to get up, what the traffic’s like and to order a few more boxes of shredded wheat because DAMN IT ALL, I forgot to go grocery shopping yesterday.And you expect Alexa or Google Assistant to do it.Certainly up until this point, the choice for many consumers was Amazon’s service — mainly through ...

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A closer look at Google I/O 2016 keynote

Google I/O’s keynote was yesterday and today all the developers are attending learning sessions where they can dive deeper into some of what was presented in the keynote – and a quite a bit more. Now that the hype from the keynote is over, and the glitz and glamor are starting to wear off, let’s take a closer look at the Google I/O 2016 keynote and see what we really learned.Google I/O 2016 KeynoteIn the keynote, a spoken sentence could contain several announcements or unveil numerous changes to the current ecosystem. Sometimes the full impact of what that sentence ...

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What is machine learning, and how is Google using it to keep spam out of your inbox?

The movie Terminator Genisys is in theaters now, and is warning us away from computers that think for themselves (remember, Genisys is Skynet!). No, Pocketnow didn’t turn into a movie reviews website while you weren’t looking, but the movie does draw some parallels with the topic, so we’ll run with it.Just in case you didn’t know (SPOILER ALERT!), in ...

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