Germany’s online stores do not use personalized pricing
A study by the German Ministry for Justice found that online shops in Germany do not use personalized pricing, as reported by several news outlets...
Netflix launches ‘Downloads for You’: Automatic Downloads of Recommended Series and Movies
Three years after Netflix introduced ‘Smart Downloads‘, Patrick Flemming (Director, Product Innovation) announces ‘Downloads For You’. Downloads For You, a new feature that automatically downloads...
Google Introduces “Model Search”, an Open Source Platform for Finding Optimal ML Models
Hanna Mazzawi and Xavi Gonzalvo from Google AI announced “the open source release of Model Search, a platform that helps researchers develop the best ML models,...
Google Scholar re-designs its research-paper recommender system
Google Scholar re-designed its recommender system as announced by Namit Shetty, Alex Verstak, Kyu Jin Hwang, Linghua Jin, Philippe David, and Anurag Acharya. Your Scholar...
Spotify in Korea: What’s more important? Price or Recommender System? [Dong Sun-hwa @ TheKoreaTimes]
Spotify recently launched its music streaming and recommendation service in Korea. Interestingly, Spotify asks for a higher price than its local competitors. Dong Sun-hwa (Korea...
‘ACM Hypertext’ (HT21): Call for Papers is out
The 2021 ACM Hypertext conference (29. Aug. – 1 Sept.) will be hosted by Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and the ADAPT Centre in Dublin, Ireland,...
Porsche adds a recommendation system to its car configurator
Porsche announced in a press release that Porsche has added a recommendation function to its Car Configurator. Porsche claims to have trained 270 neural networks...
Google Chrome’s Update on Privacy Sandbox Initiative (Browser Tracking without 3rd-Party Cookies)
Third-party cookies are were a central component to personalized advertisement on the Web. Due to GDPR, privacy concerns of users, and other reasons, using third-party...
Building a content-based music recommender-system [Amol Mavuduru @TowardsDataScience]
Amol Mavuduru wrote a tutorial on building a content-based music recommender system with Spotify data. Have you ever wondered how Spotify recommends songs and playlists...
Google launches ‘Product Discovery Solutions’ including search and recommendations for online retailers
Google joins the club of companies offering recommendations-as-a-service (RaaS). In a press release, Google announced the launch of “Product Discovery Solutions for Retail, Bolstering Personalized...