TechCrunch publishes an excerpt from ‘Attention Factory: The Story of TikTok and China’s ByteDance’
Matthew Brennan and Rita Liao from TechCrunch publish an excerpt from the book Attention Factory: The Story of TikTok and China’s ByteDance. Given that the...
Big tech’s ‘blackbox’ [recommendation] algorithms face regulatory oversight under EU plans [Natasha Lomas @ TechCrunch]
The EU plans to require large tech firms to disclose how their algorithms work, including recommendations algorithms, reports Natasha Lomas from TechCrunch. In a speech today Commission...
Facebook documents its recommender system — a little bit. [Sarah Perez @ Techcrunch]
Facebook has not been very open about how its recommender system works exactly. This may be about to change though. Today, Techcrunch announced that Facebook...
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...
Google Assistant app now uses your searches to make personalized recommendations [Sarah Perez @ TechCrunch]
Google is revamping its two-year old “Snapshot” feature in Google Assistant for iOS and Android. The company in 2018 had first introduced Google Assistant Snapshot as a...
Typewise taps 1m to build an offline next-word prediction-engine [Natasha Lomas @TechCrunch]
While really handy, recommendation systems for (next) word prediction are quite a niche, and I am not sure if there has ever been a research...
Adobe tests an AI recommendation tool for headlines and images [Anthony Ha @ TechCrunch]
Team members at Adobe have built a new way to use artificial intelligence to automatically personalize a blog for different visitors. This tool was built...
Google medical researchers humbled when AI screening tool falls short in real-life testing [Devin Coldeway @TechCrunch]
Google achieved great ‘theoretical accuracy’ on the detection of diabetic retinopathy. However, in the real-world their approach didn’t perform so well. While this is not...
Watchworthy’s personalized TV recommendation app will help you find your next binge [TechCrunch]
Ranker, an online publisher that turns crowdsourced lists and fan rankings into a data business, is now turning its attention to the world of streaming...