The Deep Learning textbook is a resource intended to help students and practitioners enter the field of machine learning in general and deep learning in particular. The online version of the book is now complete and will remain available online for free.

Vivint Sky and Wink Hub owners who want to use voice commands to control their lighting, thermostats, and other subsystems will soon no longer be limited to deploying Amazon Echos--both companies announced today that their systems will soon be compatible with Google Assistant, too. Both companies already work with Amazon's voice assistant, Alexa, but neither wants to be limited to a single platform. "Obviously there's more than one option for homeowners who want to have voice services in the house," said Vivint Smart Home Chief Technology Office Jeremy Warren. "We want to make sure we're providing a great user experience for our customers regardless of which platform they adopt." Google announced 11 other new partnerships as well, ranging from Logitech Harmony, to August smart locks, to the Anova sous-vide cooker.

Uber has announced that it is shuttering operation in Denmark in April as a result of new taxi laws, marking the latest setback for the US-based ride hailing company. The Danish government in February, passed a reform changing regulations for taxis, following pressure from local taxi driver unions. The new law requires mandatory fare meters in cabs and seat occupancy detectors to activate the airbags. Uber, which says it has 2,000 drivers and 300,000 people using its app in Denmark, said it would not be able to operate unless the regulations were changed. It will officially end its activities in the country on 18 April.

Charlaine Harris, whose Sookie Stackhouse books inspired the television series "True Blood," will release the first book in a new trilogy next year. Harris' novel "Texoma" will be published in fall 2018 by Saga Press, a science fiction and fantasy imprint of Simon & Schuster, the publisher announced in a news release. The first installment in the trilogy is based on Harris' short story "The Gunnie," which first appeared in the 2016 anthology "Unfettered II: New Tales by Masters of Fantasy." "Texoma" will be a work of speculative fiction that takes place in "an alternate history of a broken America weakened by the Great Depression and the assassination of Franklin Delano Roosevelt." In the novel, what was the United States is now five territories, including New America, an area of the Pacific Northwest under the control of Canada, and the Holy Russian Empire, formerly the states of California and Oregon.

Mumbai, March 20, 2017: Disruptive technologies lead to better customer experiences - from Internet to touch screens. We believe Artificial Intelligence is'The Fourth Transformation' in technology that will fundamentally redefine customer experiences. Today, YES BANK is proud to announce a big step towards adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI), in partnership with Payjo, a leading AI Banking Platform based out of Silicon Valley, California. The YES Pay Bot will be the first AI-driven Bot for a wallet and will complement the already trusted and popular YES Pay wallet service with over half-a-million users. YES BANK is launching its wallet services through a chat-based financial assistant in partnership with Payjo on Facebook Messenger.

SYS-CON Events announced today that Loom Systems will exhibit at SYS-CON's 20th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Founded in 2015, Loom Systems delivers an advanced AI solution to predict and prevent problems in the digital business. Loom stands alone in the industry as an AI analysis platform requiring no prior math knowledge from operators, leveraging the existing staff to succeed in the digital era. With offices in San Francisco and Tel Aviv, Loom Systems works with customers across industries around the world. The widespread success of cloud computing is driving the DevOps revolution in enterprise IT.

Newswire) Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the next big growth areas for the mobile industry according to a white paper released by IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO), a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, ahead of Mobile World Congress. "Smartphones will both be the interface for consumer AI and deliver the vast amount of data technology companies need to train AI systems" "We see AI making smart devices even smarter with improved user experiences," said Ian Fogg, director of mobile and telecom analysis at IHS Markit. "Existing AI agents like Apple's Siri and Google Assistant will expand across the industry, complemented by embedded AI in all parts of mobile devices from cameras, to audio, to machine." "Smartphones will both be the interface for consumer AI and deliver the vast amount of data technology companies need to train AI systems," Fogg said. Software investments and partnerships are critical for hardware companies to create smarter AI-enabled experiences, said the IHS Markit white paper.

Synechron, the global financial services consulting and technology company, announced Thursday (March 23) the launch of "Neo," a set of artificial intelligence (AI)-based tools for the financial services industry. In a press release, Synechron said that with Neo, financial institutions will be able deploy AI solutions that solve complex business challenges. "Financial institutions are looking to implement the latest technology to address real-world problems in financial services. Neo and Synechron's AI Accelerators will be pivotal in helping clients be at the forefront of technological advancement, while providing a comprehensive set of tools to ease and streamline processes. This will allow businesses to deploy technology-enabled processes that augment the role of individuals, allowing them to be elevated to higher-value business tasks," said Faisal Husain, Synechron co-founder & CEO, in the press release.

A team from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) has developed a facial recognition technique, which could help identify a rare genetic condition, DiGeorge syndrome affecting Africans, Asians and Latin Americans. "Human malformation syndromes appear different in different parts of the world Even experienced clinicians have difficulty diagnosing genetic syndromes in non-European populations," Paul Kruszka, a medical geneticist in NHGRI's Medical Genetics Branch said in the press release. Read: Facial Recognition Should Be Used To Track Undocumented Immigrants, Rep. Chaffetz Says The DiGeorge disease is a gene (22q11.2) deletion syndrome, also called the velocardiofacial syndrome, which causes multiple defects in the body such as cleft palate, heart defects and learning problems. It is difficult to diagnose in diverse populations, especially with people of mixed race origin. The NHGRI study published in the American Journal of Medical Genetics Thursday cites its goal as helping diagnose the disease to enable early-stage medical intervention.

Kids are not to be trusted. And now, thanks to Uber for teens, they don't have to be. The scandal-plagued ride-hail company announced Thursday a new program allowing parents to add teenagers to a "family profile," thus allowing plucky youngsters aged 13 to 17 the ability to hail a car all by their grownup selves. "We all wish we could be in multiple places at once," the saccharine ad copy -- no doubt channeling Uber CEO Travis Kalanick's desire to simultaneously extinguish all of his company's press fires -- tells us. "But until then, Uber can help families with the logistics."