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Apple, which many had considered very conservative in its approach to AI, quietly released frameworks and model libraries designed to run on its chips and maybe bring generative AI apps to MacBooks.
The company’s machine learning research team released MLX, a machine learning framework where developers can build models that run efficiently on Apple Silicon and deep learning model library MLX Data. Both are accessible through open-source repositories like GitHub and PyPI.
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Apple has agreed to acquire Intel's 5G modem business in a deal which highlights the iPad and iPhone maker's desire to control more of its supply chain.
On Thursday, at the same time that Intel released its Q2 2019 earnings report, Apple announced the deal which is worth $1 billion.
Under the terms of the agreement, roughly 2,200 engineers will move from Intel to Apple, which forms of the majority of Intel's modem business.
Apple will also acquire a range of patents, bringing the tech giant's count up to over 17,000 in wireless technologies, cellular standards, and modems.
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"Intel will retain the option to develop modems for non-smartphone applications, such as PCs, internet of things devices and autonomous vehicles," Apple says.
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Apple übernimmt Videoeffekte-Spezialisten Spektral
Apple hat das dänische Startup Spektral übernommen, das sich auf Videoeffekte wie Greenscreens in Kombination mit Maschinenlernen spezialisiert hat. Die Übernahme soll bereits Ende 2017 erfolgt sein, wurde aber erst jetzt publik.
Apple hat einem Bericht von Borsen zufolge das dänische Startup Spektral Ende 2017 übernommen, wie erst jetzt bekanntwurde. Das Unternehmen hat sich auf die Kombination aus Maschinenlernen und Videoeffekten spezialisiert. Es hat eine Technik für Fotos und Videos entwickelt, die die Freistellung bewegter und unbewegter Motive von ihrem Hintergrund möglich macht, ohne dass der Nutzer dafür einen Greenscreen verwenden muss. Apple soll für die Übernahme 31 Millionen US-Dollar bezahlt haben. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-innovative-technologies-and-developments/?&tag=Acquisitions
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TechCrunch has learned that Apple has acquired a small French startup called Regaind, according to multiple sources. As always, Apple is very quiet when it comes to acquisitions, but it’s always interesting to learn more about Apple’s interests.
We’ve reached out to Apple and the company sent us the following statement: “Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do not discuss our purpose or plans.”
This is Apple’s standard statement to confirm an acquisition. From what I understand, Apple acquired Regaind earlier this year. The company had raised a bit less than $500,000 (€400,000) from Side Capital.
Regaind has been working on a computer vision API to analyze the content of photos. Apple added intelligent search to the Photos app on your iPhone a couple of years ago. For instance, you can search for “sunset” or “dog” to get photos of sunsets and your dog.
In order to do this, Apple analyzes your photo library when you’re sleeping. When you plug your iPhone to a charger and you’re not using your iPhone, your device is doing some computing to figure out what’s inside your photos. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-innovative-technologies-and-developments/?&tag=Acquisitions http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-innovative-technologies-and-developments/?&tag=Apple
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Apple has acquired artificial intelligence startup Lattice Data for $200 million, according to a report in TechCrunch.
The deal closed a few weeks ago and roughly 20 engineers from Lattice have joined Apple, according to the report, which cited an anonymous source.
Lattice's technology focuses on "dark data," the mass of unorganized information stored in computer networks that is not in a proper format for companies to analyze or tap into. Lattice uses AI to make sense of all that data. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-innovative-technologies-and-developments/?&tag=Acquisitions
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Apple kauft israelischen Gesichtserkennungsspezialisten
Apple soll das israelische Unternehmen Realface, das sich auf Gesichtserkennung spezialisiert hat, gekauft haben. Mit deren Technik könnte eine neue Authentifizierungsfunktion für iOS und MacOS einziehen.
Apple hat laut einem Bericht der israelischen Finanzwebsite Calcalist das Startup Realface übernommen, das sich auf Gesichtserkennung spezialisiert hat. Parallel dazu gibt es Berichte, dass in iOS künftig eine solche Technik verwendet werden solle, um neben dem Fingerabdruckscanner Touch ID eine weitere Methode zum Erkennen des Besitzers des Smartphones einzuführen oder Touch ID zu ersetzen.
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When the idea of wearable computing was first proposed, analysts and industry executives jumped on the concept like rats off a sinking ship. Tablet sales were already fluttering, ahead of their long slide, smartphones clearly weren’t going to carry the market forever, and various companies from small players like Fitbit and Pebble to entrenched companies like Apple, Google, and Microsoft all were hungry to open a new frontier in wearable computing. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-innovative-technologies-and-developments/?tag=Smart+Glasses
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Eine Gruppe von Forschern hat die Tauglichkeit moderner Smartphones als tatsächliches Telefon untersucht. Dabei kam heraus: Apples iPhone ist beim Telefonieren richtig schlecht.
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Apple has acquired Fleetsmith, makers of software that lets businesses automate device setup, patching, and security for company-owned Apple devices such as Macs, iPhones and iPads.
Looking at the bigger picture, the Fleetsmith deal gives Apple an in-house mobile device management solution to offer enterprise clients and supports its overall enterprise strategy. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-innovative-technologies-and-developments/?&tag=Acquisitions
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Apple has acquired Pullstring, a startup that helps customers publish voice apps, according to Axios.
The acquisition could be part of an effort by Apple to catch up to Amazon, the current leader in the voice assistant space.
Pullstring was last valued at $163.57 million, according to PitchBook, but the terms of the deal were not specified in the report.
Apple has acquired Pullstring, a company that helps companies publish voice apps for platforms like Amazon's Alexa and the Google Assistant, according to a new report from Axios.
The move could help Apple bolster its Siri virtual assistant, which is far more limited in terms of its features and the products it works with when compared to Amazon's digital butler, Alexa. Amazon is considered to be the market leader in the digital assistant space, and that lead only lengthens when you look at smart speaker use specifically. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-innovative-technologies-and-developments/?&tag=Acquisitions https://www.scoop.it/topic/21st-century-innovative-technologies-and-developments/?&tag=Apple
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Reuters - Apple Inc has acquired a startup focused on making lenses for augmented reality glasses, the company confirmed on Wednesday, a signal Apple has ambitions to make a wearable device that would superimpose digital information on the real world.
The Apple logo is seen on a computer screen in this illustration photo taken in Bordeaux, France, February 1, 2017. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau/File Photo
Apple confirmed it acquired Longmont, Colorado-based Akonia Holographics. “Apple buys smaller companies from time to time, and we generally don’t discuss our purpose or plans,” the iPhone maker said in a statement.
Akonia could not immediately be reached for comment. The company was founded in 2012 by a group of holography scientists and had originally focused on holographic data storage before shifting its efforts to creating displays for augmented reality glasses, according to its website.
In augmented reality, digital information is overlaid on the real world as in the popular game Pokemon Go. Mobile phones use their camera system to do this on the phone’s screen, but major technology firms are racing to create glasses that will show digital information on transparent lenses.
Akonia said its display technology allows for “thin, transparent smart glass lenses that display vibrant, full-color, wide field-of-view images.” The firm has a portfolio of more than 200 patents related to holographic systems and materials, according to its website. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-innovative-technologies-and-developments/?&tag=Acquisitions
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Apple has finalized a deal to acquire Workflow today — a tool that lets you hook together apps and functions within apps in strings of commands to automate tasks. We’ve been tracking this one for a while but were able to confirm just now that the ink on the deal is drying as we speak.
I haven’t been able to get financial details for the deal, but if I come up with them I’ll update.
The app was made by a small team that includes Ari Weinstein, a former iPhone jailbreaker. I’ve been following his efforts since the iPod Linux days and covered his very useful DeskConnect app a few years back.
Workflow has been around for a couple of years and we’ve covered it and its updates. It shares some similarity with the service IFTTT, in that it allows people to group together a bunch of actions that can allow them to perform complicated tasks with one tap. It had built up a sizeable number of users and downloads over the past few years.
Workflow the app is being acquired, along with the team of Weinstein, Conrad Kramer and Nick Frey. In a somewhat uncommon move for Apple, the app will continue to be made available on the App Store and will be made free later today. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-innovative-technologies-and-developments/?tag=Acquisitions
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Apple is working on wearable digital glasses that would connect wirelessly to the iPhone and show content in the wearer’s field of vision, according to a news report.
The iPhone maker has indicated previously its interest in augmented reality. Unlike the simulated world of virtual reality, AR supplements with images and information the user’s normal view of the world.
“We are high on AR for the long run. We think there are great things for customers and a great commercial opportunity,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said in an earnings call in July, talking about the need for Apple’s devices to work with other developers’ products, such as the successful Pokémon Go game.
The company has also hired VR and AR experts and made some acquisitions that could help it meet its AR goals. Apple has discussed the glasses project with potential suppliers, reported Bloomberg on Monday, citing people familiar with those discussions. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-innovative-technologies-and-developments/?tag=Smart+Glasses
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When racing cars have only hundredths of seconds between them, in a race where the time to change a tire means the difference between winning and losing (and..
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According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, Apple has acquired Emotient, an artificial intelligence startup. The company confirmed the move to the WSJ.
The San Diego-based company was founded in 2012 and has raised $8M from investors like Intel Capital and Seth Neiman, and had been tinkering around with products like Google Glass and other wearables. Most recently the company was working with advertisers on how to bake in reaction analysis into their advertising according to the WSJ.
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Apple, which many had considered very conservative in its approach to AI, quietly released frameworks and model libraries designed to run on its chips and maybe bring generative AI apps to MacBooks.
The company’s machine learning research team released MLX, a machine learning framework where developers can build models that run efficiently on Apple Silicon and deep learning model library MLX Data. Both are accessible through open-source repositories like GitHub and PyPI.
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