Searching for a solution to your higher energy costs? Or looking for ways to operate your hotel’s building systems more efficiently? An energy management system can offer a lot of value to hotels of all shapes and sizes – not only helping you decrease your utility costs, but also unlocking more productivity and higher guest … Read more
A step-by-step guide on how to build a state-of-the-art recommender system in an industrial setting. At eBay, we have approximately 152 million users and 1.5 billion live listings at any given time on our marketplace. This article takes a look at how we’ve created an in-house system, using a combination of engineering and machine learning … Read more
HIGHLIGHTS Trackers are exfiltrating users’ name, email address, age range, etc. Lack of security boundaries between first and third-party scripts: Report Investigating the security research report: Facebook Several third-party trackers are abusing the Facebook Login system, exfiltrating users’ data including name, email address, age range, gender, locale and profile photo, a new security research report has claimed. … Read more
Microsoft’s conversational speech recognition system – designed to accurately recognises the words in a conversation like humans do – has reached a 5.1 percent error rate, its lowest so far. This milestone means that, for the first time, a computer can recognise the words in a conversation as well as a person would. “Our research team … Read more
Amid the battle of words between billionaires Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk over the future of artificial intelligence last week, a story that suggested that Facebook had to shut down an AI program went viral. We may have gotten carried away by the pun, however. According to reports, Facebook had to shut down an AI program after two bots created their … Read more
CyberPowerPC’s $499.99 Gamer Ultra VR is the first desktop ready for the Oculus Rift headset that is priced under $500, but there’s a caveat. You’ll need to buy it with the Oculus Rift headset, which costs more than the PC at $599.99. The bundle will put you back $1,099.98, but that’s still a good deal for … Read more
Chennai Book Fair 2017 begins tomorrow: Token system to fight demonetisation cash crunch The 40th Chennai book fair will begin tomorrow on January 6 at St. George School on Poonamallee High Road and will end on January 19. BAPASI has introduced an internal token system at the venue which would ease it out for people … Read more
The Tesla Model 3 will have a base price of $35,000, which the company hopes will appeal to the masses. Credit: Tesla Motors MORE LIKE THIS Every Tesla car will contain the hardware to drive itself Tesla’s free Autopilot 8.0 update shifts focus to radar to avoid car crashes Report: Intel plans to make the … Read more
Online verification of mark-sheets has made the evaluation process immune from cheating since the system was equipped only for verification of certificates. BSES RELATED STORIES Bajrang Dal, Congress workers behind recent teachers’ protest: Alleges Manish Sisodia Multitude of teachers protest for salary hike at AAP mega show: Delhi This 16-year-old schoolgirl’s letter to PM Narendra … Read more
The issues revolving over the appointment of teachers in the premier IIMs under the quota system for reserved candidates has once again come to attention. It is speculated that the HRD Ministry would table the issue of reservation over the appointments of teachers with the IIM representatives on September 20. Former HRD Minister Arjun Singh, … Read more