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Google There’s a big update coming to the Google Assistant for iOS and Android today. Google is resurrecting the predictive Google Now cards that used to exist in the pre-assistant era, and the company is sticking them in the Google Assistant interface. Before the transition to the Google Assistant and the Google (News) Feed, Google […]
You always hear about the best time to book your travels for big savings, but do you ever follow up? Hint: You’re better off nabbing Thanksgiving flights now. That’s according to Hopper, a startup that relies on big data to help you purchase cheap airfares through its app. Now, it’s applying its predictive smarts to […]
Law enforcement has been trying predictive policing software for a while now, but how well does it work when it’s put to a tough test? Potentially very well, according to Chicago police. The city’s 7th District police report that their use of predictive algorithms helped reduce the number of shootings 39 percent year-over-year in the […]
DataRobot, a machine learning platform that helps enterprises build predictive models at speed, has raised $ 54 million in a Series C funding round led by existing investor New Enterprise Associates (NEA). Founded out of Boston in 2012, the DataRobot platform features hundreds of open-source machine learning algorithms and harnesses best practices and knowledge from “the world’s leading […]
EXCLUSIVE: Aviso, which provides sales forecasting enhanced with machine learning for businesses, today announced a funding round of $ 8 million. Based in Menlo Park, California, the startup sells software as a service (SaaS) that provides predictive analytics meant to help companies sell more. “Managers provide data-driven coaching sessions and sales teams take action early […]
