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Connecting Smart Glasses to an Assistant
From The Eponymous Pickle

Connecting Smart Glasses to an Assistant

Now we have smart glasses (soon) connecting to an Assistant. To be shown at this weeks CES.   As the review suggests,  most likely interesting for narrow applications...

Etherium Announces Open Plan to Cut Energy Use
From The Eponymous Pickle

Etherium Announces Open Plan to Cut Energy Use

How fundamental will this change be?  Mining to move beyond proof by work?Ethereum Plans to Cut Its Absurd Energy Consumption by 99% IEEE Spectrum      By Peter...

Customer Experience Metrics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Customer Experience Metrics

Useful survey, you see them all, and often not well applied, just used for historical or cost/availability reasons.  You get what you measure.Does it matter which...

Finding all the Trees in the World
From The Eponymous Pickle

Finding all the Trees in the World

Akin to my previously mentioned Agriculture Deep Lens problem.   No Deeplens appears to have been tried here.   In Flowing data:Finding all of the trees in theDescartes...

100 Million Alexa Devices Sold
From The Eponymous Pickle

100 Million Alexa Devices Sold

Platform War?  Or more like an ecosystem war, the one that will get the most participants creating intelligent value, and combining that into new products.  More...

Procter Thinking More Channels
From The Eponymous Pickle

Procter Thinking More Channels

My former employer talks products, packaging, supply chain, channel selection and design.  Quite a broad set of considerations for a relatively typical kind ofE...

Threat Intelligence Handbook
From The Eponymous Pickle

Threat Intelligence Handbook

   Just reading The Threat Intelligence Handbook: A Practical Guide for Security Teams to Unlocking the Power of Intelligence.  Edited by Chris Pace of RecordedFuture...

Use of Cube Satellites
From The Eponymous Pickle

Use of Cube Satellites

Recent mention of the successful use of Cube Satellites made me think of yet broader applications, and others are thinking this way.  Back to the swarms of small...

Kohler Seeks to Automate the Bathroom
From The Eponymous Pickle

Kohler Seeks to Automate the Bathroom

Our smart home setup featured an automated bathroom.   Before voice control became popular.   It was one of the most popular stops in our tours.  Right now Kohler...

Frameworks for Big Data Ecosystems
From The Eponymous Pickle

Frameworks for Big Data Ecosystems

Of interest, below is an abstract, just a bit more at the link, further detail requires signup.  Ecosystems are hard to sell, but ultimately essential.Framework...

Techniques for Adaptive Robotics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Techniques for Adaptive Robotics

When building autonomous systems we often had to adapt the changes in context over time,  advances in the techniques needed to do this efficiently are always interesting...

Computing without Hardware
From The Eponymous Pickle

Computing without Hardware

More broadly does this mean computing can exist out in the electromagnet spectrum without all the hardware?  If it can create an analog computer, it can createSculpted...

Microsoft Patents Minimal Voice Interaction
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft Patents Minimal Voice Interaction

Clever idea, I can see the whole office whispering.  Like to see it in practice.   The issue is often brought up when suggesting Voice in an office environment....

Mistaken Assumptions for Blockchains?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Mistaken Assumptions for Blockchains?

 In MIT Technology Review: Chain Letter:... Arvind Narayanan, a computer science professor at Princeton, argued in a widely-shared twitter thread last week that...

Alexa Skills in 2018
From The Eponymous Pickle

Alexa Skills in 2018

Still a remarkable number created, but still not enough in quality or being able to integrate them for increased intelligence.  Now a number now being classified...

Alexa Asks for Answers
From The Eponymous Pickle

Alexa Asks for Answers

A kind of admission that its hard to create general answers to questions?   Further relating to my last post about this kind of approach.   Do note its similarity...

Google Acquires Superpod
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Acquires Superpod

Relating to an examination of improved question and answer interacton.Google secretly acquires Q&A startup Superpod By Maria Deutscher  in SiliconAngleGoogle LLC...

Customizing Computer-Aided Design
From The Eponymous Pickle

Customizing Computer-Aided Design

Interesting because some of the earliest work we did could be called constrained, innovative design.  Most notably in package design, using 3D CAD. Good detailCustomizing...

Smart Cities
From The Eponymous Pickle

Smart Cities

A toolkit, here just the abstract,  good view in  the whole article: Smart Cities: A Toolkit for LeadersIn collaboration with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Jan...

Illegal Pricing Algorithms
From The Eponymous Pickle

Illegal Pricing Algorithms

Warnings to developers of algorithms, the data they use, and even the smartest of contracts.Law and Technology: Illegal Pricing Algorithms  By Michal S. Gal Communications...
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