The latest smart cities market data report by ABI Research has predicted that smart utility metering and video surveillance would hold a significant portion of the smart city segment, with the number

Facial recognition is being used in Shanghai to help catch individuals suspected of abusing pharmaceuticals.South China Morning Post reports that Shanghai is testing facial recognition terminals in ph

Inventory management — let's call it inventory mismanagement — has emerged as an Achilles heel for department stores. Those retailers, along with others selling third-party apparel, were

Samsung envisions a world filled with AI assistants, but not the sort of chatbot-powered assistants to which we’ve become accustomed. In a press release late this evening, the Seoul company unveiled&n

Optical character recognition (OCR), or the conversion of images of handwritten or printed text into machine-readable text, is a science that dates back to the early ’70s. But algorithms have long str

The AI talent grab is real. This year alone, Pinterest CTO Vanja Josifovski jumped ship to Airbnb, while Pinterest hired Walmart CTO Jeremy King to head up its engineering team. Moreover, all the big

Biologists and conservationists across the world have got their hard drives stuffed with millions of camera trap photos and it’s a time consuming process to go through all the images. Google has there

At the Tackling Climate Change workshop at this year’s NeurIPS conference, some of the top minds in machine learning came together to discuss the effects of climate change on life on Earth, how AI can