What can we learn about how we “see” the world through the news by processing half a billion global news images through Google’s deep learning Cloud Vision API and new Cloud Inference API?

Last March I wrote about an early experiment using Google’s Cloud Vision API to perform deep learning-powered geocoding of 20 million global news images. In that experiment I compiled 20 million ...

Visual Crossing is upgrading its weather data platform with real-time radar capabilities, starting with coverage across the ...

The Visual Studio Team followed the release of the Azure App Service with news that hits closer to the heart of developers: release of the Azure API Tools for Visual Studio 2013. The tools, which are ...

At its I/O developer conference, Google today announced a new Maps API for mobile developers, updates to Maps for Android and iOS and a completely refreshed Google Maps experience on the desktop ...

Riya CEO Munjal Shah has been blogging about his company's shift in strategy, moving from a focus on face recognition to visual Web search (see also my post from May 16 and recent posts from Mike ...

Earlier this year, Syte.ai, which develops visual search technology for fashion brands, raised $8 million from investors including top Asian tech firms NHN, Line Corp. and Naver. Now it’s unveiling a ...

JustVisual Adds Fashion to its Visual Search Technology Offering with Open API and New Consumer App.

Adding a visual engagement component to external and internal workflows, Meetings API's no-code design enables enterprises to remain agile by enhancing their existing applications with embedded ...

Visual Studio 2013 came with a new version of Web API. The Web API 2.1 update includes a host of new features, including support for Binary JSON. Learn how to leverage BSON by building a Web API 2.1 ...