Vector databases, commonly used for similarity search and product recommendations, are a shining light in the era of Artificial…
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Google's Street View maps are headed into the backcountry. Earlier this week, two teams from Google strapped on sophisticated backpacks jammed with cameras, gyroscopes...NPR From ACM News | October 24, 2012
Online education isn't particularly new. It has been around in some form since the 1990s, but what is new is the speed and scale in which online learning is growing...NPR From ACM Careers | October 2, 2012
Tech companies like Google, Facebook and Zynga are on a shopping spree. They're buying small startups with innovative products and apps. But, many times, the tech...NPR From ACM Careers | September 24, 2012
For more than a decade the CIA has run its own venture capital fund called In-Q-Tel. It was founded in the late 1990s when the CIA was drowning in data and didn't...NPR From ACM Careers | July 17, 2012
Bernard Farrell obsesses over every bite he eats, every minute of exercise he gets, and everything that stresses him out. And, more than anything else, Farrell...NPR From ACM News | July 11, 2012
You may not have heard of the special-effects studio Digital Domain, but you've probably seen their work. They sank the Titanic for James Cameron; they aged Brad...NPR From ACM News | June 25, 2012
Future cars will have even more complex electronics and robotic-like control systems that monitor driving conditions and assist drivers, but experts say that will...NPR Online From ACM TechNews | February 12, 2010