Google adds personalization features to its Pixel phones
Harrison Lingren from Google announced a number of new features for Google’s Pixel phones, some relating to personalization. These features include Adaptive Sound, which adjusts...
Apple introduces Fitness+, a “new engaging and personalized fitness experience”
Apple announced Fitness+, a new app that is supposed to enable personalized fitness workouts and hence competes with Peloton. According to Apple’s press release: Apple...
Ocilion and Xroad Media launch a recsys for TV shows
ocilion – provider of IPTV solutions – and Xroad Media – provider of ‘content discovery solutions’ – partner up. They integrate Xroad Media’s recommender system...
Spotify considers the interests of artists when recommending music to users
Spotify announced a new feature that allows artists and music labels to influence how their music is recommended to the users of Spotify. In this...
arXiv now has a recommender system, provided by CORE
arXiv — the preprint repository — and CORE — no, not the Australian conference and journal ranking but the “world’s largest collection of open access...
StrainBrain: A Recommender System for Weed
I just stumbled upon StrainBrain, a Cannabis Strain Recommendation Engine. According to their website, they are supported, among others, by Google Cloud for Start-Ups. The...
Mozilla is Crowdsourcing Research into (Harmful) YouTube Recommendations [Ashley Boyd @ Mozilla]
YouTube recommendations can be delightful, but they can also be dangerous. The platform has a history of recommending harmful content — from pandemic conspiracies to...
A prototype of a “Similar Shoe” (Sneaker) Recommender-System with Source Code [Josh Barua]
Josh Barua created https://runningshoesforyou.com/, a recommender-system for shoe recommendations. Users can provide as input either a specific shoe model or their preferences (comfort; weight; looks;...
Google Podcast gets Personalized Audio News Recommendations [Liz Gannes @ Google]
“Your News Update” is coming to Google Podcast as announced by Liz Gannes, Product Manager News at Google. “Your News Update” was originally introduced in...
Bingie is an app for all your streaming recommendations and debates [Anthony Ha @ TechCrunch]
If you’re overwhelmed trying to choose the next movie or TV show to watch on Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, HBO Max or any other streaming service, Bingie could be the...