‘US stole from Honduras more’: Migrants at US border demand $50k ‘reparations’, faster processing

Two groups of Central American migrants, a fraction of the 7,000-strong human tide that massed at the border during US elections, are demanding speedy approval of their asylum claims – or $ 50,000 to go home. One group of about 100 Hondurans has asked the Trump administration to pay them $ 50,000 each to leave […]

Investing in AI: When natural language processing pays off

GUEST: For the past 18 months, my teams at Acxiom Research have worked extensively with a specific form of artificial intelligence called natural language processing (NLP). Our most exciting NLP development is called ABBY — our first artificially intelligent employee. But I’m not just here to talk about ABBY. I’m here to talk about the…Read […]

Photos show Border Patrol’s largest processing facility, a former warehouse where families are separated and hundreds of migrant children are kept in cages

Customs and Border Protection’s Rio Grande Valley Sector via Associated Press The Trump administration has been under fire for weeks over its new “zero-tolerance” policy that has resulted in the separation of thousands of migrant children from their parents. On Sunday, a handful of reporters were permitted to tour Border Patrol’s largest processing facility in […]

How payments companies can take advantage of a trillion dollar processing opportunity

BII This is a preview of a research report from Business Insider Intelligence, Business Insider’s premium research service. To learn more about Business Insider Intelligence, click here. Relative to many other sectors around the globe, the US healthcare industry has been notoriously slow to embrace new payment systems and processes. See the rest of the story at […]

Apple facing trillion dollar lawsuit for reducing processing speed of aging iPhones

Published time: 27 Dec, 2017 14:36 A US woman is suing Apple for nearly one trillion dollars after the company acknowledged it had deliberately slowed down iPhones as they get older. The US tech giant now faces nine suits over the issue. Read more Violetta Mailyan is reportedly seeking compensation, demanding Apple pay her $ […]

Simple visual processing exercise is the first intervention to limit dementia

Enlarge / Exercises that help you to quickly pick out details seem to have the biggest effect on dementia. (credit: Flickr user City Lights) Dementia strikes many people as they age, and there’s currently not much we can do about it. It would be nice to think that there could be a fix to stave […]

Natural language processing will help humans and machines have more empathy

GUEST: With the current breakneck pace of innovation, it may seem like technology is on an inevitable and aggressive path to solving all of humanity’s most pressing problems. And in some respects, we’re making great progress. We’ve broken tremendous ground in such areas as renewable energy, disease prevention, and disaster recovery. But when it comes […]

Google acquisition boosts AIMatter’s efforts to revolutionize image processing

GUEST: At the beginning of the year, Google CEO Sundar Pichai discussed the company’s key areas of focus. He said that, aside from allocating some funds for investments in AR, VR, and cloud technologies, Google will be an “AI first” company. This statement could very well explain one of Google’s latest takeovers. Google has acquired […]

US to suspend fast processing of H-1B visas for high-skilled workers

We’re still waiting for President Trump to weigh in definitively on the ongoing H-1B visa reform debate, but his administration just introduced a new change to the system that may be seen as hostile to the tech industry. In a press released posted this evening to the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) website, the […]

These are the leading credit card processing companies (JPM, BAC, C, WFC, VNTV, TSS, BCS, FDC, WPG)

BI Intelligence Credit card processors are mostly responsible for data transmission and security when you use your card at a store or online to make a purchase. There are two types of processors in the payment-card system. Front-end processors route transactions from merchants to the cardholder’s bank to gain authorization; that is, they make sure a customer has […]