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Perceptron: Analyzing images in the blink of an eye and tracking the life cycle of snow

Research in the field of machine learning and AI, now a key technology in practically every industry and company, is far too voluminous for anyone to read it all. This column, Perceptron (previously 

Snow’s avatar app Zepeto registers 150M users, eyes China market

Some of you may recall the South Korean app Zepeto that went viral among Gen Z users a year and a half ago. The app, which renders selfies into animated avatars and lets people adorn their computer-ge

NASA’s beautiful snowflake simulations could help predict inclement weather

There's a lot about snow we don't know. Where does it come from? Where does it go? What does it taste like? Admittedly there are tentative answers to these questions. But there are yet more complex on

Selfie app Snow, once a Snapchat clone, raises $50M from SoftBank and Sequoia China

It’s been a while since we heard from Snow, the Snapchat clone app in Asia that Facebook once tried to buy, but today the company behind it has scooped up a $50 million investment from SoftBank

Yandex takes its self-driving test cars out for a spin in the snow

Russian software giant Yandex took its prototype self-driving taxi out for its first real-world snow test last weekend. The Prius model prototypes clocked up 300km in total during the test. 

Chat app Line doubles its stake in Snapchat clone Snow

Ahead of Snap’s eagerly awaited IPO, Line, one of the U.S. tech IPO highlights of 2016, has doubled down on sister service and Snapchat clone Snow. Line and Snow both share the same parent com

Snow, the Asian Snapchat clone Facebook tried to buy, claims 40-50M monthly users

Asian Snapchat clone Snow caught the attention of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who tried unsuccessfully to buy it last year, and it is continuing to grow steadily. The app's Korean parent Naver today

Naver to launch $43M fund to seek out investments for its Snow and Webtoon services

Naver, the company behind U.S.-Japan-listed chat app Line, has teamed up with SoftBank to launch a global investment fund worth $43 million to help two of its promising services push on.

Facebook tried to buy Asian Snapchat clone Snow

Here's fuel to the fire for those who believe that Facebook will buy anything that looks, smells or moves like Snapchat. The U.S. social networking giant this summer made an unsuccessful bid to acquir

Line invests $45 million into Snapchat clone Snow

Line, the messaging company that went public in the year's highest IPO to date, is diversifying its business and focusing on social after it invested $45 million (50 billion KRW) in Snow, a Snapchat c

Apple Patent Reveals ‘Pseudo-Holographic’ Display

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/cnnhologram.jpg" />It's bare bones Monday, amigos. Most normal people have taken this week off, and snow has crippled the entire north-ea

Burton Vice Mitts keep your hands warm and your (energy) drink cold

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/mittens.JPG" />Living up by Lake Tahoe, I'm always on the lookout for new gadgets and technology for when I go snowboarding. Case in poin

TRAX STI replaces Subaru's tires with treads, blasts through snow

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/trax2.jpg" />If I had one of these things, I'd never get any work done. Unless I was a rally driver, in which case I'll I'd be doing was

Snowball Blaster: Now you’re all in big, big trouble

Of course the Snowball Blaster should hit the scene when I’m damn near thirty and too old to go get in snowball fights with the neighborhood children. “It’s that creepy blogger!” all the paren

Everex CloudBook delayed again until mid-March?

Those of you waiting for tomorrow — when the Cloudbook is supposed to be available at fine retailers like Walmart — might want to prepare yourselves for a longer wait…again. Already