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Opsgenie for Incidents in Process Modeling
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Opsgenie for Incidents in Process Modeling

In the process of looking at modeling processes that link to and handle incident driven operations, I was pointed to:Atlassian: OpsgeniePlan and prepare for incidents...

Whats Best
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Whats Best

I like the pieces from Think with Google, good to follow.We often addressed the problem when dealing with the term 'Optimal', which often followed with the question...

Robot Scientist Creates New Materials
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Robot Scientist Creates New Materials

Machines doing design, and the creative process.  How do they interact with people?A Robot Scientist Will Dream Up New Materials Technology Review   By Will Knight...

R&D in the Age of Agile
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R&D in the Age of Agile

Pharma R&D in the ‘age of agile’  From McKinseyAs innovation reshapes the pharma landscape, pharma companies will need to revisit their R&D operating models toSent...

Report from the Stanford AI100 Study
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Report from the Stanford AI100 Study

Initial report from this work:Stanford:    One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100)Stanford University has invited leading thinkers from several...

Wal-Mart Floor Cleaning and Complex Environments
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Wal-Mart Floor Cleaning and Complex Environments

Note the claim of being able to operate ' ... to effectively and safely function in complex, crowded environments, ensuring increased productivity and efficiency...

New IFTTT Functions for Assistants and Home
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New IFTTT Functions for Assistants and Home

A number of new and interesting IFTTT  (If This Then That) functionalities for the smart home.  I always explore these offerings.   They are free.   Some new interactions...

Amazon Go Cashierless at Airports?
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Amazon Go Cashierless at Airports?

Overall an excellent, hands-on demonstration of the advance of fast reliable sensors.   Will further open people to the idea of the convenience of 'AI' type solutions...

Robotic Houseplant Moves to Light
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Robotic Houseplant Moves to Light

Kind of obvious, but made me think more generally about the robotics of the problem.   And adding other dimensions like nutrients and water.    Plus the sensors...

Google Labs Announces Image Compression Demos
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Google Labs Announces Image Compression Demos

Had a need for comparing alternate methods of this recently. Technical:Google Labs Announces Squoosh: Image Compression PWALike  | by Dylan Schiemann At the 2018...

Mars and Marketing
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Mars and Marketing

In Gartner:Mars and Marketing – What We Can Learn From NASABy Christopher Ross

Google Wants to be Your AI Edited News Radio
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Google Wants to be Your AI Edited News Radio

So Google will control editing and presentation of news.  Placement of Ads.  Assembled with AI analysis.  Already being delivered to some assistants.  Right now...

Alexa Conversationally Constructs Playlists
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Alexa Conversationally Constructs Playlists

This is something of interest, playlist conversational construction.  If you think of a playlist as a goal, could this be applied to business efforts?   Was thinking...

China take on Cashierless Tech
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China take on Cashierless Tech

Alternative tech idea:Why China's take on cashierless tech might be the right one in AxiosChina's retail giants might be ahead of US innovators, such as Amazon,...

Assessing Progress in Automation Technologies
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Assessing Progress in Automation Technologies

Useful coverage of automation.  I like that this is defined broadly.Assessing progress in automation technologies  In O'Reilly by Ben Lorica.When it comes to automation...

A ChatBot Asset Exchange
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A ChatBot Asset Exchange

Brought to my attention by the talk this morning on Bots integrated with AR/VR . Slides here.  The slides include instructive videos.  IBM Sponsored.  I will extract...

Echo Devices now Support Skype Calling
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Echo Devices now Support Skype Calling

In further indication of a link between Microsoft and Amazon,  Voice and Video Skype calls can now be made-hands free on Echo devices.  I frequently use Skype for...

Talk: How Bots Fit into the AR/VR Space
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Talk: How Bots Fit into the AR/VR Space

Join us Dec 6,  at 10:30am US Eastern - hear @anamitag at @IBMDeveloper onTalk Title: How Bots Fit in the AR/VR Space Speaker: Anamita Guha Abstract: This talkBio...

P&G Responding to Changing Customer Preferences
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P&G Responding to Changing Customer Preferences

Intriguing directions, especially regarding customization.  How does a big company react to customer preferences,  when it can no longer direct them?Q&A | How P&G...

Better Facial Recognition, Says NIST
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Better Facial Recognition, Says NIST

Interesting stats.   Our own experience says it depends strongly on the contextual aspects of the image acquisition.  And often out of complete control.    Introduce...
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