Gurugram-based deeptech startup FlixStock has raised $2.5 Mn in a funding round led by early-stage venture capital firm Wavemaker Partners. Singapore-based Seeds Capital and Leo Capital also participated in the funding round. With the recently raised funds, FlixStock is planning to open a research centre in Singapore which will enhance its artificial intelligence (AI) based image creating platform. FlixStock, which also has an office in Los Angeles, is also planning to ramp up its presence in the US as well. Founded by Harindar Keer, FlixStock helps its clients create catalogue images based on their products.

Elon Musk believes the era of fighter jets is over and future warfare will be carried out by autonomous drones. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO made the prediction while speaking with US Air Force Lt. Gen. John Thompson at the Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando, Florida on Friday. 'Drone warfare is where the future will be. It's not that I want the future to be – it's just, this is what the future will be,' the billionaire said. Musk also believes that Lockheed Martin's F-35 fighter jet, is the Pentagon's most expensive weapons system, should have a competitor – and specifically a'drone fighter plane', according to CNBC.

Dr. Andrew Toole is the Chief Economist at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and a Research Associate at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW). Dr. Toole joined the USPTO with experience in the private sector, academia, and government. While completing his PhD in economics at Michigan State University, Andrew Toole was a Senior Economist for Laurits R. Christensen Associates where he conducted studies on total factor productivity, cost and price analysis, and competitive strategy. In 1998, Dr. Toole went to Stanford University as a postdoctoral student before becoming a faculty member at Illinois State University and Rutgers University in New Jersey. As an academic researcher, Dr. Toole was asked to advise on science and technology policy issues for institutions such as the U.S. National Academies of Science, U.S. National Institutes of Health, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

The Machine Learning team at Mozilla continues work on DeepSpeech, an automatic speech recognition (ASR) engine which aims to make speech recognition technology and trained models openly available to developers. DeepSpeech is a deep learning-based ASR engine with a simple API. We also provide pre-trained English models. Our latest release, version v0.6, offers the highest quality, most feature-packed model so far. In this overview, we'll show how DeepSpeech can transform your applications by enabling client-side, low-latency, and privacy-preserving speech recognition capabilities.

Point Bridge Capital CEO Hal Lambert says Elon Musk is the Thomas Edison of our generation. SpaceX founder Elon Musk expects unmanned drones will outlive fighter jets in the U.S. Air Force. "It's not [that] I want the future to be this," the billionaire entrepreneur added during a fireside chat about the future of air defense with Gen. Jay Raymond, chief of space operations for the Space Force, at the 2020 Air Warfare Symposium on Friday. "The fighter jet era has passed." The founder of electric-car maker Tesla re-emphasized the point on Twitter when a platform user brought up his statement that the new Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter should have a competitor.

AI has proven to have a considerable impact on some major industries. While autonomous cars and virtual assistants are slowly becoming a reality, the creative industry has been experimenting with AI for several years already. Does it have meaningful implications and if so, what will it bring in the future? It's universally agreed that the first computer-assisted music score dates back to 1957 when composers Lejaren Hiller and Leonard Isaacson unveiled Illiac Suite for string quartet. Utilizing the interconnection between mathematics and music, Hiller was able to program the computer to come up with a stunning four-piece musical score. One of the most notable AI-assisted music projects happened two years ago.

"Focusing on your strengths is required for peak performance, but improving your weaknesses has the potential for the greatest gains. This is true for athletes, executives and entire companies." As parents, we get to see our kids growing, trying, falling and learning in the process. First steps, first words, first drawings leave us amazed. As our children become adults, they continue to learn, choose a career and become athletes, surgeons, plane pilots, journalists, teachers… and we're proud.

Whether you're looking at property long-distance or purchasing a yet-to-be-built custom home or condo, virtual reality comes close to providing the see-it-in-person experience. The turnkey property on a double lot above the Sunset Strip is owned by designer Jean-Louis Deniot. For a New York City Development Executive, Luxury is About Time … Gorgeous Views Don't Hurt Miriam Harris, a lifelong New Yorker, on what is important to buyers now. Sydney, Australia, Auction Clearance Rate Hits Over 80% This Weekend The auction clearance rate in Sydney rose 75% week-over-week to reach 81.4%, according to CoreLogic. Over 1,000 properties went to auction in Sydney last week with a median house price of A$1.465 million (US$958,480).

Many companies are scrambling to find machine learning engineers who can build smart applications that run on edge devices, like mobile phones. One company that's attacking the problem in a broad way is Qeexo, which sells an AutoML platform for building and deploying ML applications to microcontrollers without writing a line of code. Qeexo emerged from Carnegie Mellon University in 2012, just at the dawn of the big data age. According to Sang Won Lee, the company's co-founder and CEO, the original plan called for Qeexo to be a machine learning application company. The company landed a big fish, the Chinese mobile phone manufacturer Huawei, right out the gate.

In an industry as dynamic and exciting as the IoT (Internet of Things), it can difficult to separate hype from reality. One sector that often falls victim to hype is AI (artificial intelligence). For many decades, machine intelligence and autonomous decisionmaking have grabbed ahold of people's imaginations, simultaneously bringing about utopian and dystopian predictions for the future AI-driven world. Practically speaking, the hype surrounding AI technologies can make it tough for investors and businesses to get a handle on exactly what to expect from this growing space and how they should try to harness it. How can companies avoid getting caught up in the AI hype cycle?