Archrival

Archrival | February 19, 2018

Team USA will once again face Canada for gold in women’s hockey, extending an Olympic rivalry with roots stretching back to the sport’s first appearance at the Winter Games in 1998. The two teams have played each other for gold in every Winter Olympics final since then with the exception of 2006, when the U.S. failed to make the gold-medal round. Canada has won four straight gold medals in the event. The U.S. won its sole gold in 1998. This year, both teams dispatched rivals in the s...

Archrival | February 14, 2018

MailPix, the photo-printing, canvas and gifting site, announced the acquisition of the RitzPix.com brand, formerly part of Ritz Camera. Terms were not disclosed. “Bringing the RitzPix name home to the MailPix family is a great way to start 2018,” says Fred H. Lerner, CEO and founder. “Our management team has a long history with the Ritz brand, and look forward to continuing its long history of helping families preserve their precious photo memories.” MailPix acquired thre...

Google | January 13, 2020

Google is finally ready to give Android users in EU the choice of alternative search engines but surprisingly it’s DuckDuckGo that has been regarded as the most preferred choice whereas Bing stood at last. From 1st March 2020, European Union citizens will get the advantage to choose one out of four search engines as their default (including Google). By doing so, they will not only see their selected choice for making searches in Chrome, but also through Android home screen search box and a...

Facebook | January 13, 2020

Facebook AI Research (FAIR) today said it’s open-sourcing wav2letter@anywhere, a deep learning-based inference framework that achieves fast performance for online automatic speech recognition in cloud or embedded edge environments. Wav2letter@anywhere is based on neural net-based language models wav2letter and wav2letter++, which upon its release in December 2018, FAIR called the fastest open source speech recognition system available. Automatic speech recognition, or ASR, is used to turn ...