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Wharton Book and Podcast:  On Serious Gamification
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Wharton Book and Podcast: On Serious Gamification

Book and podcast on the subject:Gamification Is Changing How We Work — and Succeed‘For the Win’ authors Kevin Werbach and Dan Hunter discuss the revised and updated...

Spies for Hire
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Spies for Hire

More Evidence of Global HackingSpies for Hire: China's New Breed of Hackers, By The New York Times, August 27, 2021A web of front companies controlled by China's...

NVIDIA Launches AI Enterprise
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NVIDIA Launches AI Enterprise

 Some interesting details of INVIDIA AI Enterprise offer.  Here are some of the outline, with links to the details.The Lead[1] Nvidia launches AI Enterprise in[2]...

Wagyu Beef 3-D Printed
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Wagyu Beef 3-D Printed

Impressive, beef printed from stem cells.Scientists Reveal World's First 3D-Printed Wagyu BeefInteresting Engineering, Derya Ozdemir, August 25, 2021Scientists...

Deepfakes are Making Business Pitches
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Deepfakes are Making Business Pitches

Been recently involved with a business pitch, so fascinating.  How far could this get you in creating the outline of a pitch.  Deepfakes Are Now Making Business...

More on Schnuck's Store Robotics
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More on Schnuck's Store Robotics

Retailwire looks at this, with further expert retail comment.Are robots taking over Schnucks’ stores?Aug 27, 2021  by George AndersonSchnuck Markets is going to...

Waymo Autonomous Taxis
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Waymo Autonomous Taxis

Not a personal self driving car, but an hailed auto taxi service.  Being pushed by Waymo/Alphabet (Google)  Implications for liability in use?  Would this be  an...

Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Digital Transformation?
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Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Digital Transformation?

Just started to get these alerts and overviews from HPE that look interesting, and claim to speed digital transformation.  For SMB (Small and Medium sized Businesses)...

Autonomous Electric Ships
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Autonomous Electric Ships

 Had heard of previous examples of this, will we ultimately have fleets of these establishing autonomous supply chains on oceans? Autonomous Electric Cargo Ship...

Apple's Next $20 Billion Business
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Apple's Next $20 Billion Business

 They have the leverage and direction.   Lots more at the link.This could be Apple’s next $20 billion businessPublished: Aug. 25, 2021 at 11:45 a.m. ETBy EmilyAn...

Schnuck's Deploys Intelligent Retail Robotics
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Schnuck's Deploys Intelligent Retail Robotics

 An interesting case of chainwide application.  Surprised somewhat that Schnuck's is involved.   With the robotics being used for multiple purposes including direct...

Making Coding like Speaking?
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Making Coding like Speaking?

 How easy is this to do without error?  OpenAI Is Making Coding As Easy As Talking to a Smart Speaker  By Wired in CACMA few weeks ago, I went to an office in the...

Northwestern Retail Analytics
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Northwestern Retail Analytics

Just received the latest Northwestern Retail Analytics Council mailing.   Good review of what they are up to.The quarterly Retail Tech Bulletin, published by the...

Sand-Heap Paradox and all That
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Sand-Heap Paradox and all That

 We were interviewed at P&G in the late 80s for one of Shoshana Zuboff's books, so this piece reminded me of some of what we were doing then.   Don't remember the...

Adapting to Gig Law
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Adapting to Gig Law

 Gig Law,  of how do we manage, or even define part time work, is increasingly important.  Here a first example of how this might be managed. Judge rules California...

Saw Some Examples of Tunable and more Efficient Models for IOT
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Saw Some Examples of Tunable and more Efficient Models for IOT

 Cutting 'Edge': A Tunable Neural Network Framework Towards Compact, Efficient ModelsTokyo Institute of Technology News (Japan)    August 23, 2021A sparse convolutional...

Non Fungible Tokens and the Future of Art
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Non Fungible Tokens and the Future of Art

A further look at the use of blockchain tech to create unique digital expressions, aka 'Art', and provide proof of ownership.    And trade the Art in the real world...

Declining Entrepreneurship not a Concern
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Declining Entrepreneurship not a Concern

Says K@W StudyWhy Declining Entrepreneurship in the U.S. Is Not a Concern  in K@WInnovation ContentEntrepreneurship in the U.S. has declined in recent decades because...

Waymo Is 99% of the Way to Self-Driving Cars. The Last 1% Is the Hardest
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Waymo Is 99% of the Way to Self-Driving Cars. The Last 1% Is the Hardest

 Odd illogical example given. Could such an example be solved by freezing and towing the car away?  Can't be that easy. Waymo Is 99% of the Way to Self-Driving ...

Surrendering to Algorithms
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Surrendering to Algorithms

Perhaps instructive, or what might be expected.   What I learned surrendering my life to algorithms   in Cnet.I outsourced several of my daily decisions to algorithms...
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