This year’s list of finalists for the Illinois Technology Association’s CityLights Awards shows how far the emerging Chicago Tech scene has come.

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DC Films doesn’t need saving. As bad as it was, ‘Suicide Squad’ was perfect and most importantly — profitable.

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This post was co-authored with Shiwani Kumar and Sylvia Yang, both MBA students at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University.

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Intel has announced that it will acquire Nervana Systems, a Deep Learning startup based in San Diego and Silicon Valley, to extend their capabilities in the fast-moving market for training deep neural networks used in artificial intelligence (AI) applications. I recently wrote about Nervana here. Training neural networks is a hot market where companies typically use GPUs to teach a machine how to process text, image, voice and other data types. Nervana is developing an accelerator and software that is tailored to this task instead of using a more general purpose GPU to do the heavy lifting. This acquisition provides Intel with a specific product and IP for Deep Learning, which can be used in standalone accelerators and can be integrated with future Intel technology to deliver more competitive and innovative products.

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For this YouTube content creator, travel became a full-time job.

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Eyegroove allowed users to make short videos with the music they loved, and now that its staff is headed to Facebook, the app will close.

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