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Customers try Apple Watch devices in the Apple Marunouchi store on September 07, 2019 in Tokyo, Japan. Tomohiro Ohsumi | Getty Images Fitness trackers from companies like Apple, Amazon, and Google are making a significant shift from being low-tech devices that counted steps to now becoming what’s fashionable in personal health. Tracking fitness and workout data for personal use or sharing with friends can be useful and fun. But there’s an increasing interest in incorporating a wider range of… Source link

Yandex, one of the leading technology companies that build intelligent products and services powered by machine learning, recently announced CatBoost 1.0.0, a new major version of their open-source machine learning library. The new version goes far beyond just an upgrade and is the culmination of four years of work by the Yandex Team.   CatBoost has been used by tech innovators for everything since its initial launch in 2017, from streaming service user recommendations to particle… Source link

Bloomberg God and Man Collide in Bill Hwang’s Dueling Lives on Wall Street (Bloomberg) — With the sun rising outside their conference room in Midtown Manhattan, the visitors to a secretive investment empire bent their heads in prayerful meditation.It was another Friday morning, 7 o’clock, and a familiar scene was unfolding again inside Archegos Capital Management, an obscure family office that would go on to shake the financial world.In the days before the pandemic, 20 or 30 people would… Source link

The University of Minnesota will pay Google $2.36 million to create a new online learning platform for the health sciences bachelor’s degree program at the Rochester campus. Starting in summer 2022, students will begin working toward their degree on an accelerated schedule, using a combination of virtual and in-person learning. The nearby Mayo Clinic will be integrated into the coursework, providing oversight, mentorship and opportunities for applied, experiential learning. U President… Source link

When it comes to machine learning and SEO, a number of advancements in the past decade have given Google a lot of publicity and praise for projects such as RankBrain, BERT, and SMITH. With that said, Google isn’t the only search engine making great strides in advancing machine learning (ML). Over a similar time frame to Google, Yandex has released similar projects into their ranking processes such as MatrixNet, Palekh, its second (more refined) iteration of Korolyov, and most recently,… Source link

Hark! The blobs sing! Or at least, they do in Google’s latest machine learning experiment, the awe-inspiring Blob Opera, which will see a chorus of four adorable, colorful blobs serenade you with spine-tingling operatic music. Drag a blob up or down, and you’ll change what pitch they sing in; drag them from side to side, and you’ll change the vowel sound. Each blob will also harmonize with the others, in what can only be described as magical. The Blob Opera just sounds beautiful,… Source link

Bloomberg Nobody Wants Pesos: Argentine Currency Meltdown Upends Business (Bloomberg) — Argentina’s battle to control its currency is upending South America’s second-largest economy, wreaking havoc on everything from household finances to the production and sale of common goods.Measures including taxes on greenback purchases and demands that some companies restructure their dollar-denominated debts have misfired, propelling the gap between the official and the black market exchange rates… Source link