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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Oracle Ebook
Just taking a look at this:Ebook via RetailwireBuilding Your Business Around Your Customers, Not ChannelsHow to Calculate the Real Cost of an Ecommerce Solution...
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Apple App Store Generates $1 Billion a Week
An amazing number for the Apple store.Apple’s App Store generates a billion dollars a weekWe’re more willing than ever to buy digital products, and that’s goodOn...
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Panasonic Cloud Analytics for Safety
Digital 'Seatbelt' combines safety data. A clever play for this problem. Also data for future development of safety methods and devices. "a central nervousPanasonic...
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On Next Generation Smart Contracts
Some introductory information about smart contractsSee also Ricardian Contracts: "... a method of recording a document as a contract at law, and linking it securely...
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5G Tests Underwhelm
Some interesting first views of 5G. As in most cases a 'killer app' experience is needed to sell the increased cost of hardware quickly, but it will sell as a...
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Humanizing Assistants a kind of Privacy Invasion?
From a retail perspective, with further expert comment.Does humanizing virtual assistants undermine consumer privacy? by Tom Ryan in RetailwireA university study...
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Wal-Mart Going More Robotic
Note in particular the emphasis on out of stocks.Walmart Expands Its Robotic Workforce to 650 Additional StoresShelf-scanning devices aim to help reduce out-of-stock...
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Sharing with a Core Scientific Data Model
With data getting more complex, and havig to include many aspects of context-specific metadata, sharing it efficiently can be messy. In our experience the integration...
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Improving AI via Deep Learning and Process
Thoughts on how machine learning will improve. I agree that in particular hybrid models that bring in process logic, extensions of RPA methods, and simulation...
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Google Project Loon
Was recently reminded of Google's project to deliver internet access to remote Earth locations. Proposed as early as 2008. Now spun off, but still active. here...
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Leadership for Reskilling, Relearning
Been a long time proponent of continuous learning and re-skilling aimed at continuously changing tech and goals. This blog is one aspect of that effort. Below...
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Warrant Canaries are Here
A term that was new to me .... I remember well the notion of the 'canary in the coal mine', the canary tells us by dying, that something has happened. Now theWarrant...
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What Amazon Alexa Announced ot CES
A number of interesting things announced about Alexa at the just completed CES. Hard to understand what is serious investment and what is not. Like to see more...
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Kaiser Permanente Bets on Watch Based Health Compliance
Some good stats about how such compliance sensors like smart watches could be used in pharma.Kaiser Permanente Bets on Smartwatches to Lower CostsThe Wall Street...
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OrCam for Visual, Hearing Impairment
Basically a navigation aid, which could have profound assistive effect, but implies it must be taught specific contexts to be most useful. How hard that is toPersonal...
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People Too Trusting of Virtual Assistants
Another look at the general idea of creating a 'personality' of assistants. Anthropomorphic features like names, speaking style, voice, gender, etc. can influence...
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Defining the Smart Home: More than a Speaker
Very true, but it sets the stage. There is so much more work to be done to establish the level assistance that needs to created. Skills are many, but most are...
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Bandage like Sensors gather Body information in Real-Time
Breath and accuracy of data in real-time could be important.Bandage-Like Sensor to Detect Human Body Conditions in Real Time Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science...
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Y2020 Bug? Still happening.
I remember discussing this particular 'fix' back then. And have seen code in software that still makes assumptions about how long code will be around. Whats a...
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