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Is Marketing About To Get Really Creepy Or Really Good?

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Apple acquired a company last week. On March 23rd, 2013, The Wall Street Journal reported that Apple acquired a company called WiFiSLAM for an estimated $20 million (not bad for a two year old company with just a handful of employees that includes some ex-Googlers). This is more than a defensive move for Apple.

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Blog #4: Deep Learning: The Rise of Cognitive Science Technology

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Consumers have been experiencing the applications of machine learning in smart devices with software like Apple’s Siri and Microsoft’s Cortana, which make use of machine learning to comprehend a user’s voice and the spoken instructions to the phone via a process called natural language processing.