Twitter revealed that it has acquired Magic Pony, which is not some sort of an enchanted steed but rather a company focused on machine learning and visual processing technology. The purchase of Magic ...

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The move will help Twitter bolster its image sharing, video and live-streaming experiences using Magic Pony’s neural network, which is designed to think like a human brain. This machine learning ...

Machine learning is a major focus for both Google and Facebook already. The technology is also the entire basis of IBM’s Watson, which has been put to marketing use after IBM’s purchase of The Weather ...

Twitter has stepped up its efforts in the machine learning arena after announcing the acquisition of visual processing technology company Magic Pony. While the company claims machine learning is ...

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Part of the company’s efforts to be the home of live events Part of the company’s efforts to be the home of live events The benefits of Magic Pony’s tech are clear for Twitter. Earlier this year, the ...

Twitter plans to enhance its video features with the acquisition of Magic Pony Technology, a U.K. startup specializing in machine-learning visual processing. Twitter is paying up to $150 million total ...

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A British startup is using the unique abilities of convolutional neural networks to do a sort of scaled-up version of Adobe’s content-aware fill — but instead of filling in the gaps in a picture, it’s ...