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Runtastic now invites you to beat your previous times, and shows your runs on Street View too

Jun11
by on June 11, 2014 at 11:56 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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Perennially popular GPS fitness-tracking app Runtastic has introduced a handful of interesting new features to its mobile apps. Perhaps one of the more interesting nuggets is the ‘Challenge a Run’ feature, available in the Pro versions on both Android and iOS. It basically allows you to compete against yourself by selecting past results and inviting you to beat your time. The feature is actually quite well hidden, within the Android app at least. But if you go to the ‘Workout’ area which is accessible by clicking the little running-man icon in the top-right of the main activity feed, then ‘Basic…

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EU Commission VP says Uber protestors ‘cannot hide in a cave’ and must embrace digital innovations

Jun11
by on June 11, 2014 at 11:18 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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European Commission vice-president Neelie Kroes waded into the long-running battle today between Uber and traditional taxi drivers with a call for “real dialogue” about the impact of new technology. As black-cab drivers prepare to bring the streets of London to a standstill, Kroes said digital innovations were here to stay and that “going on strike, or by trying to ban these innovations out of existence” wasn’t an option. “The job of the law is not to lie to you and tell you that everything will always be comfortable or that tomorrow will be the same as today,” she told protestors. “It…

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EU Commission VP says Uber protestors ‘cannot hide in a cave’ and must embrace digital innovations

Jun11
by on June 11, 2014 at 11:18 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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European Commission vice-president Neelie Kroes waded into the long-running battle today between Uber and traditional taxi drivers with a call for “real dialogue” about the impact of new technology. As black-cab drivers prepare to bring the streets of London to a standstill, Kroes said digital innovations were here to stay and that “going on strike, or by trying to ban these innovations out of existence” wasn’t an option. “The job of the law is not to lie to you and tell you that everything will always be comfortable or that tomorrow will be the same as today,” she told protestors. “It…

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Ersatz Labs’ deep learning platform is now available to anyone who can handle it

Jun11
by on June 11, 2014 at 11:00 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Deep learning, machine learning and neural networks sound like the features of a pulp science fiction, but they’re real and the technology is now available to any company without having to hire data scientists to build your own system from scratch. Ersatz Labs has launched a deep learning platform that’s available to anyone that wants this type of analysis. It’s like the Amazon Web Services (AWS) of machine learning. The service is has a web interface and API.  Both can be used if a company needs to determine, for example, how stocks will behave based on a wide range of data, it…

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Ersatz Labs’ deep learning platform is now available to anyone who can handle it

Jun11
by on June 11, 2014 at 11:00 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Deep learning, machine learning and neural networks sound like the features of a pulp science fiction, but they’re real and the technology is now available to any company without having to hire data scientists to build your own system from scratch. Ersatz Labs has launched a deep learning platform that’s available to anyone that wants this type of analysis. It’s like the Amazon Web Services (AWS) of machine learning. The service is has a web interface and API.  Both can be used if a company needs to determine, for example, how stocks will behave based on a wide range of data, it…

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