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Wal-Mart's Assistant Robots
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wal-Mart's Assistant Robots

Good summary of what they are up to, but not necessarily direction.   Agree they seem to be ahead,  but not in interaction with consumers.  I often need an assistant...

Spotting the Bot in Journalism
From The Eponymous Pickle

Spotting the Bot in Journalism

Quite an interesting podcast and transcript.    Bt sill continue to grown in our environment of getting information.     Why does it matter?   Is it only a matter...

More on AI and Human Resources
From The Eponymous Pickle

More on AI and Human Resources

HR is a very natural area to think abut analytics.   We did exactly that for decades before AI. Its even better linked to AI because the patterns sought for are...

New Kind of Flexible Aircraft Wing
From The Eponymous Pickle

New Kind of Flexible Aircraft Wing

Remarkable idea for manipulable surfaces.MIT and NASA engineers demonstrate a new kind of airplane wingAssembled from tiny identical pieces, the wing could enable...

Curate Libraries for Truth?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Curate Libraries for Truth?

Internet pioneer dicusses truth and knowledge on the Internet.  Mentions the rare word 'Internaut'.Libraries Considered Hazardous   By Vinton G. CerfCommunications...

OnixNet
From The Eponymous Pickle

OnixNet

Just brought to my attention: OnixElevate Your Business with the Leading Cloud Solutions ProviderOur Core Services.What We Love To Do.The cloud computing technology...

EU to Require Car Monitors, Limiters.
From The Eponymous Pickle

EU to Require Car Monitors, Limiters.

Beyond autonomous driving,  to autonomously tracking and limiting behavior for safety.EU to Require Speed Limiters, Driver Monitors in New Cars From 2022In CNet...

Alexa Launches HIPAA Compliant Med Skills
From The Eponymous Pickle

Alexa Launches HIPAA Compliant Med Skills

Have now worked analyzing sever health oriented data intelligence interactions.   Now Amazon/Alexa makes move with skills.  Restrictions in their application are...

Techman Robot Announced
From The Eponymous Pickle

Techman Robot Announced

Supply chain applications are intriguing.   We did much palletizing/wrapping for product protecting and shipment.Techman Robot unveiled at Chicago Automate 2019...

Human Resources and IBM AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Human Resources and IBM AI

I have seen IBM do some very interesting things with.   How this will change their skills and workforce will be interesting to watch.IBM's Artificial Intelligence...

Become a Platform Company
From The Eponymous Pickle

Become a Platform Company

Even CPG companies are figuring this out now.The platform play: How to operate like a tech company  in McKinsey  By Oliver Bossert and Driek Desmet For tech to“The...

Using AI for Legal Contracts
From The Eponymous Pickle

Using AI for Legal Contracts

 Was just reminded of this effort:Using Artificial Intelligence for Legal Contracts" ... We made our first dive into how artificial intelligence is changing law...

Bucketing Data Elements by Use
From The Eponymous Pickle

Bucketing Data Elements by Use

Further as a means to value data elements in context?  We tested something similar to this, which established data in context of use.Machine learning moves popular...

Robocall Crisis Continues
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robocall Crisis Continues

Don't like the word 'never' here, but the article does a good job of outlining the problem involved.The Robocall Crisis Will Never be Totally Fixed    by Lily Hay...

Cosmos, a Blockchain to connect Blockchains
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cosmos, a Blockchain to connect Blockchains

Was asked to give an opinion on this approach, a 'Proof of Stake'  Blockchain approach (more below).A Blockchain to Connect All Blockchains, Cosmos Is Officially...

Happy Working Alongside Robots
From The Eponymous Pickle

Happy Working Alongside Robots

A look at people working with robots.  Not only the physical kind, but the 'robotic process' kind.   In fact, we have been planning, creating and installing the...

Data Mining of Failure
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Mining of Failure

Reminds me of the AAR: After Action Review, which we did for a while.  But the important thing is to gather the data consistently, often an issue.How the data mining...

Alberson's Wants Frictionless with Microsoft
From The Eponymous Pickle

Alberson's Wants Frictionless with Microsoft

Another partnership between retail grocery and tech.Albertsons eyes ‘frictionless’ grocery shoppingCloud services pact with Microsoft to power omnichannel strategy...

North Focals Smart Glasses
From The Eponymous Pickle

North Focals Smart Glasses

Digital Trends reviews.    Another attempt at smartglasses.   A sort of on-your-head rather than as a watch.   Integrating Alexa.  Need to be fitted, and are expensive...

The Eras of Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Eras of Analytics

Instructive look at the evolution of analytics.  Though I disagree regarding backroom vs sexy.  Informed management always knew these methods were powerful,  they...
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