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Surveillance as a Condition for Humanitarian Aid
Excellent op-ed on the growing trend to tie humanitarian aid to surveillance. Despite the best intentions, the decision to deploy…
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Model Driven Software Development
Brought to my attention. I like the idea, as long as it does not remove transparency, especially as it relates to real-life process and context. This is about...
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Autonomous Robot Delivery in US Universities
Makes sense to try this in the demographic and relatively contained space of a University. Autonomous robot deliveries are coming to 100 university campuses in...
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Risk Aware Traffic Engineering
Analysis and use risk measures a favorite approach of mine. Risk-aware always a good idea. Especially considering architectures.Using Wall Street secrets to reduce...
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What Your Voice Reveals
And of course you may be revealing things you want to keep private. As this kind of pattern recognition advances we will see more of that.What Your Voice Reveals...
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Digital Twins Grow Up
"Digital Twins Grow Up," by Samuel @samthewriter Greengard, says that digital twins, or exact #virtual representations of physical objects and #systems, are revolutionizing...
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Magnetic Precise Drug Delivery
Seems a very good advance. Do we know the exact implications of precise delivery of pharma? Practical issues?A new way to deliver drugs with pinpoint targeting...
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Stop and Shop has Robots in the Aisle
How they are being used is still unclear, but this could get customers used to the idea of robots in the aisle. Pictures of the bots show an attempt to be humorous...
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Smart Home Sensors for Alexa
A good look, many from Samsung. Not enough in the way of collaborative capabilities and skills for these. I want to see more collaboration, predictive AI and...
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Motivation and Goodwill
Intriguing motivation augmentation via goodwill? How universally and continuously does this work with other goals?New Tool Shows Goodwill May Trump Profit as Work...
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Brief History of Blockchain
Very nicely done, mostly non-technical. Good visuals of the concepts. With some forward predictions. This emphasizes Blockchain-Ledger rather than cryptocurrency...
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Wal-Mart Patents a Blockchain Digital Currency
Wal-mart has already experimented with the underlying tech for produce tracking. Is this beyond that? Or an extension of distributed ledger? Intriguing all around...
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Robots for Lonliness
Have followed the Japanese eldercare efforts, pushed by Japan's demographics, for some time.Bringing robots home eases lonelinessBy Ikuko Mitsuda / Yomiuri Shimbun...
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Machine to Machine Interfaces
Fascinating piece. ultimately it is all about machines cooperating seamlessly. We take it for granted they will be designed to do that, but its not entirely...
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IKEA Going Smart Home Tech
Will be interesting to watch, have an IKEA down the street, will be dropping in to hear of their plans.Ikea goes all in on smart home tech‘We are just getting started...
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Wearable Sweat Sensors
Recall some research using sweat as a means of diagnosing.Wearable sensors detect what's in your sweatby Kara Manke, University of California - BerkeleyNeedle pricks...
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How AI and 5G will Interact
More data, faster responses, stronger engagement. All likely to follow.When AI and 5G Combine, Watch For a New Generation of Applications By AI Trends Staff...
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UPS Invests in Self-Driving Trucks
Could create a considerable change in supply chain operations and improvement.UPS invests in autonomous truck startup in BloombergUPS has invested an undisclosed...
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Cashierless Stores Advance
Reducing friction in retail to give an edge and decrease costs.Cashierless Stores Make Inroads in U.S. The Wall Street JournalBy John MurawskiU.S. retailers are...
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Echo Auto now in Operation
Just started using Amazon Echo Auto, after waiting nearly a year for a beta. Works well. Previous third part solution sallowed you limited access to your Alexa...
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