How Thomson Reuters built an AI platform using Amazon SageMaker to accelerate delivery of ML projects

This post is co-written by Ramdev Wudali and Kiran Mantripragada from Thomson Reuters. In 1992, Thomson Reuters (TR) released its first AI legal research service, WIN (Westlaw Is Natural), an innovation at the time, as most search engines only supported Boolean terms and connectors. Since then, TR has achieved many more milestones as its AI … Read more

Federated Learning on AWS with FedML: Health analytics without sharing sensitive data – Part 2

Analyzing real-world healthcare and life sciences (HCLS) data poses several practical challenges, such as distributed data silos, lack of sufficient data at a single site for rare events, regulatory guidelines that prohibit data sharing, infrastructure requirement, and cost incurred in creating a centralized data repository. Because they’re in a highly regulated domain, HCLS partners and … Read more

Federated Learning on AWS with FedML: Health analytics without sharing sensitive data – Part 1

This blog post is co-written with Chaoyang He and Salman Avestimehr from FedML. Analyzing real-world healthcare and life sciences (HCLS) data poses several practical challenges, such as distributed data silos, lack of sufficient data at any single site for rare events, regulatory guidelines that prohibit data sharing, infrastructure requirement, and cost incurred in creating a … Read more

You’re not going to grow into your 2021 valuation

Jeremy Abelson Contributor Share on Twitter Jeremy Abelson is the founder and lead portfolio manager of Irving Investors. More posts by this contributor Investors are sitting on mountains of cash: Where will it be deployed? What am I worth now? Jacob Sonnenberg Contributor Share on Twitter Jacob Sonnenberg is a portfolio manager at Irving Investors … Read more

Stratospheric balloon company World View to go public in $350M SPAC deal

World View, a startup developing stratospheric balloons for Earth observation and tourism, is heading to the public markets. The company announced Friday that it would merge with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Leo Holdings Corp. II in a deal worth $350 million, as the startup seeks to build out what it calls “the stratospheric economy.” … Read more

How to use your phone to find hidden cameras

Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge To quote a worn — but occasionally true — saying from Joseph Heller’s novel Catch-22, “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.” The popularity of Airbnb and other informal rentals has coincided with the increased production of cheaper hidden cameras, making it increasingly likely that … Read more

Netflix is canceling Dead End: Paranormal Park

Norma, Pugsley, and Barney. | Image: Netflix Though Hamish Steele’s Dead End: Paranormal Park was one of the better animated series to hit Netflix last year with its two back-to-back seasons, the streamer’s decided not to bring it back for a third season. In a Twitter post, Steele explained today that while he’s known for … Read more