Machine Learning

Keen is an experimental app developed by Google’s Area 120 Internal team that lets users save and share links, resources, and ideas they are fond of in topic boards. To suggest related content, Google uses machine learning and Search.

Neural networks scanned a database of over 6,000 chemical compounds and identified a new one called halicin in a matter of hours.

The new tool is intended to help journalists and fact-checking organizations in detecting manipulated and doctored pictures. It may well come in handy during the pre-election period.

The policy doesn’t cover satire or parody content, along with videos that were edited to omit certain words or change their order.

Apple has acquired a Cambridge-based startup called Spectral Edge. Its technology may well improve the quality of photos taken on iPhones.

The Nest Mini version is a second-generation device that follows its predecessor’s form factor and therefore looks almost the same. However, it has some new features that mainly concern internal upgrades.