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Cell Carriers are Selling Your Location
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Cell Carriers are Selling Your Location

Not unexpected, privacy implications.  Probably not much to most people.  Good to know though. Your Cell Carrier Is Selling Your Location Data   By Ryan Whitwam...

Artificial Empathy Needed
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Artificial Empathy Needed

Also includes engagement.   Gets back to the nature of a conversation.   Does it engage, promote understanding, remember past interactions, help?   All those lead...

Wal-Mart Asks for Higher Priced Products
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Wal-Mart Asks for Higher Priced Products

Not a surprise, different competitive positioning, margins.No joke – Walmart asks CPGs for higher priced productsby Matthew Stern  in Retailwire with expert comments...

Automated Checkout Growing
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Automated Checkout Growing

Seems that checkout-free experiences will be the future.Amazon will open checkout-free stores in Chicago and San FranciscoYou won't have to visit Seattle to experience...

Google Deepmind for Navigation
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Google Deepmind for Navigation

Another kind of problem, which may well have applications in industry.Google DeepMind's AI Learns Human Navigation Skills In The Guardian  By Ian SampleGoogle's...

Blockchain for Marketing
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Blockchain for Marketing

Another example where Blockchain has potential use.What Blockchain Could Mean for Marketing   By Anindya Ghose in the HBRCompanies are collecting more data than...

Building Assistants into Laptops
From The Eponymous Pickle

Building Assistants into Laptops

Seems to compete with Cortana, which I have with Windows on my laptop.   Builtin capabilities making popular assistants even more common.   Is the increasing number...

Retail Analytics in Realtime
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Retail Analytics in Realtime

More operational links to real time analytics are emerging.Reacting Faster in Retail with Real-Time Big DataBy Raluca Neagu - in CustomerthinkConsider the following...

Integrating Watson Assistant
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Integrating Watson Assistant

I was an early examiner of Watson Assistant, you can even build a skill for Alexa with Watson Assistant!  Useful introduction:Integrate Watson Assistant With Just...

Baby Translator Predicting Autism
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Baby Translator Predicting Autism

Another example of pattern recognition ...Can this AI Powered baby Translator Help  Diagnose Autism?   By Megan Moltini   in Wired When Ariana Anderson   had her...

Growing Artificial Neural Nets
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Growing Artificial Neural Nets

Quite an impressive thought.    Have them grow their own architecture?Artificial Neural Nets Grow Brainlike cells to find their way   By John Rennie  in WiredHAVING...

Electronic Health Records
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Electronic Health Records

In the Google Blog:Deep Learning for Electronic Health RecordsPosted by Alvin Rajkomar MD, Research Scientist and Eyal Oren PhD, Product Manager, Google AIWhenPredicting...

Law Professor Looks at Driverless Cars
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Law Professor Looks at Driverless Cars

This can be  seen further into any autonomous systems.   We examined it for plant operations.Is the Law Ready for Driverless Cars?   By Ryan CaloCommunications,...

Virtual Reality Winemaking
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Virtual Reality Winemaking

Engaging the customer.Winemakers Engage Visitors With Virtual Reality  in VR FocusFunding from Australian Federal Government lets wineries encourage tourism using...

Low Power Video Streaming for IOT
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Low Power Video Streaming for IOT

Ultimately could be a very big thing.   Opens video sensor streaming, and IOT very broadly.  Tie it to video pattern recognition advances.    It further could also...

More on Google Duplex
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More on Google Duplex

In the Google AI blog.   A more lengthy and technical view of getting tasks done by phone conversations.Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real-World...

Amazon and Etsy
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Amazon and Etsy

Hardly opposite, but appealingly different.  Refreshing to go there.Etsy succeeds with its Amazon-opposite approach  by George Anderson in Retailwire.Etsy, theThe...

Google Federated Learning
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Google Federated Learning

New way to share data for training prediction models. Google's Federated Learning Architecture Can Enhance Privacy While Ending the Centralized Dataset     Analytics...

Google AI Blog: Google Clips
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Google AI Blog: Google Clips

In the Google AI blog:A means of capturing data for AI learning input?Automatic Photography with Google ClipsPosted by Aseem Agarwala, Research Scientist, Clips...

Implications of Facebook Creating a Blockchain Division
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Implications of Facebook Creating a Blockchain Division

Had wondered if it made sense for some companies to create their own cryptocurrencies.   Under what conditions would this make sense?   Would this assume theseFacebook...
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