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Dec 04, 2019

Friction is everywhere – even the not-quite-vacuum of outer space has it. Closer to earth, friction can make a mess of commerce and payments, especially as impatient consumers have multiple options for where to spend their time and money. But the fight against friction – one of the defin...

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Dec 03, 2019

Data is booming. Analytics solutions are innovating rapidly to keep up with the influx. At the forefront of that innovation is AI. Since AI analytics is a relatively new technology, it can be difficult to discern its true benefits or even the extent to which it deviates from more traditional analyti...

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Dec 03, 2019

DeepMind, an offshoot of Google's parent company, debuted a computer program in January capable of beating professional players at one of the world's toughest video games. StarCraft is a military science fiction franchise set in a universe rife with conflict, where armies of opponents face o...

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Dec 03, 2019

Tesla's got a crazy new vehicle that looks nothing like anything the company has made before, and it's even got a crazy new name: " Cybertruck ." Thus far, the Cybertruck's distinct look has been its most polarizing feature. Some folks love it , some folks hate it . It's ev...

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Dec 02, 2019

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is estimated to pave the way for close to 2.3 million opportunities by 2020, according to a Gartner report. With growing volumes and types of data, easy computational processing and data storage, the importance of leveraging machine learning is increasing. It can produce...

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Dec 02, 2019

Businesses know that machine learning systems and artificial intelligence programs can be customized to meet a company’s specific needs. Most are at a loss to know how to begin developing them.  Many are worried about teaching a machine learning system their pivotal secrets and losing rig...

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Nov 29, 2019

Data is redefining the way we conduct business today. From determining how products should be designed to setting operational goals- data is driving business decisions across industries. Companies are now using multiple AIML applications to analyze the root cause of various consumer and business iss...

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Nov 28, 2019

Investing in digital transformation is at the top of the agenda for most organisations. From increasing operational efficiency to improving customer experience, the goals are clear, writes Paul Crerand, director of solution consulting, office of the CTO, EMEA, at MuleSoft. However, many organisation...

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Nov 27, 2019

Digital solutions and AI has revolutionised the business landscape in the last decade. Organisations are using smart digital solutions for achieving higher productivity at reduced costs. One area where AI is significantly making its presence felt, is recruitment. The Applicant Tracking System (ATS) ...

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Nov 27, 2019

When considering the application of AI in finance, many jump straight to high-frequency trading. Computer algorithms, armed with reams of the latest financial data, rapidly trade securities at fractions of a second. Investment firms have long adopted technology to trade at a dizzying pace where a mi...

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Nov 26, 2019

Recent advances in deepfake video technology have led to a rapid increase of such videos in the public domain in the past year. Face-swapping apps such as Zao, for example, allow users to swap their faces with a celebrity, creating a deepfake video in seconds. These advances are the result of deep g...

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Nov 26, 2019

Microsoft's Android Surface Duo and the Windows 10X Surface Neo are still a year away from retail, but the company is already starting to woo developers for the all-important task of making Android and Windows apps for its new dual-screen hardware. The company has also invited developers to get ...

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Nov 25, 2019

Most of the time organisations have to deal with tough problems like errors, defects, and other complexities while developing intricate software. This is where self-coded applications come into play. Applications that generate the code themselves not only help the programmers to accomplish a task in...

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Nov 25, 2019

Google has updated its Mendel Linux release for its high-performance Coral developer board and its add-on Coral system-on-module (SoM).  Google's Coral hardware came out of beta last month and at the time it promised to deliver a new version of Mendel based on Debian 10 Buster — the s...

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Nov 21, 2019

Factories deploy AI to automate complex physical tasks requiring adaptability and agility. Marketers use AI to generate individualized recommendations and automatic order fulfillment. The list is virtually infinite. A host of services taken for granted today, from credit card fraud detection to emai...

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Nov 21, 2019

The 29-year-old graduate student is dark-haired, tattooed and openly transgender, using the pronouns "they" or "them." Facial analysis software, however, typically assigns each face it analyzes one of two labels: male or female. The software literally can't categorize Keyes c...

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Nov 21, 2019

Google LLC has introduced a new “Explainable AI” service to its cloud platform aimed at making the process by which machine learning models come to their decisions more transparent. The idea is that this will help build greater trust in those models, Google said. That’s important b...

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Nov 21, 2019

Asynchronous programming, or async for short, is a feature of many modern languages that allows a program to juggle multiple operations without waiting or getting hung up on any one of them. It’s a smart way to efficiently handle tasks like network or file I/O, where most of the program’...

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Nov 21, 2019

The data explosion is at its peak and becoming more mainstream across all industries – the supply chain is no exception, maintains Dr. Madhav Durbha, Group Vice President of Industry Strategy at LLamasoft, a leading provider of enterprise supply chain design technology. He predicts that Artifi...

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Nov 19, 2019

Microsoft intends to significantly simplify how people find organizational information through internal knowledge networks. It’s via new technology set to appear next year, revealed as Project Cortex. If Project Cortex works as Microsoft envisions, it will streamline, or in many cases eliminat...

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Nov 19, 2019

The human brain is accustomed to accepting the natural course of things and when science contrives AI, there is a certain discomfort. What if the superficialness of the element is completely removed? What if AI is able to learn things by itself and make decisions? It is already happening. Cognitive ...

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Nov 19, 2019

IT operations teams and security teams within a company don’t communicate as well as they could, which makes the entire organisation more vulnerable to cyber-threats than it should be. This is the conclusion of a new Tanium report, based on a poll of 400 IT leaders from large enterprises. The ...

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Nov 18, 2019

I would like to start with the fact that the retail market today is developing by leaps and bounds, but traders by the way also do not standstill. On the contrary, they gradually seize the initiative by introducing Artificial Intelligence into their products. Note, when many things were simply impos...

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Nov 18, 2019

Astronomers are worried that a small satellite swarm launched by Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket firm last week will ruin deep space observations of distant stars and galaxies. And they are letting people know about it. On Nov. 11, SpaceX launched 60 "Starlink" satellites into low-earth orbi...

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Nov 18, 2019

Will artificial intelligence (A.I.) and machine learning carve up the tech industry into “haves” and “have nots”? That’s the thesis presented by a recent article in The New York Times, which suggests that, while ultra-monetized companies such as Google and Facebook can ...

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Nov 17, 2019

Google became what it is by creating advanced new technology and throwing it open to all. Giant businesses and individuals alike can use the company’s search and email services, or tap its targeting algorithms and vast audience for ad campaigns. Yet Google’s progress on artificial intell...

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Nov 15, 2019

Artificial intelligence is one of the most marketed (hyped, you might say) and ill-defined technology categories being packaged and lobbed at those in the enterprise these days. You might think overexposure would lead to fatigue and a healthy dose of skepticism. Not so, according to original researc...

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Nov 14, 2019

The issues of ethical development and deployment of applications using artificial intelligence (AI) technologies is rife with nuance and complexity. Because humans are diverse -- different genders, races, values and cultural norms -- AI algorithms and automated processes won’t work with equal ...

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Nov 14, 2019

What’s a data scientist to do if they lack sufficient data to train a machine learning model? One potential avenue is synthetic data generation, which researchers at IBM Research advocate in a newly published preprint paper. They used a pretrained machine learning model to artificially synthes...

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Nov 13, 2019

This is the bold statement that Scientific American gave regarding the matter. In their recent statement, they claimed that what people call nowadays as Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not actually AI, but something else entirely. Sure, we hear the description of AI branded on almost every new tech ...

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Nov 13, 2019

When it comes to the relationship between business development and technological innovation, we can generally separate two schools of thought. There are those who believe that technological progress is what propels businesses forward. And on the other hand, there are those who are certain that busin...

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Nov 12, 2019

Most businesses are using artificial intelligence (AI) in one form of another, despite many not being aware of it.  Polling 250 business owners for its latest report, Esme Loans found 73 per cent of businesses which claimed they didn’t use AI, and 29 per cent of those that said they were ...

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Nov 12, 2019

AMERICANS don't have to be beholden to the tech Goliaths to get the benefits of artificial intelligence. An alternative possibility is for the government to provide the infrastructure needed for a technological future - through a public option for artificial intelligence. Big tech companies have...

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Nov 11, 2019

AI being an ubiquitous technology has a vital role to play in the revolution of emerging technologies. Specifically, when IoT is in its revolutionary phase, its amalgamation with AI can transform the future technological landscape. According to a report, the global AI market which was valued at US$ ...

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Nov 11, 2019

It’s a well-documented trend that the rise of digital channels such as webchat, apps, FAQs, etc., has led to a change in the way contact centers handle interactions. The routine, “easy” interactions are now handled by self-service channels. Deflecting these low-value interactions h...

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Nov 10, 2019

Disruption of the job market and the economy from automation and the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the primary ideas animating Andrew Yang’s surprising campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. Alone among the candidates, Yang is directly engaging with one of the ce...

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Nov 10, 2019

Whether you’re an evil international billionaire supervillain, seeking a new plot for your next Fast And Furious In Space script, or investigating a murder that has you wondering who exactly is in that “Starman” suit, you’ve likely thought about orchestrating an interstellar ...

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Nov 07, 2019

Artificial intelligence (AI) was invented to support humans. With time, it has developed into a technology that delivers results. Although expensive initially, AI has now become affordable for small businesses as well. According to a survey of CEOs from small and medium-sized businesses, 29.5% of CE...

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Nov 07, 2019

Only ten years ago, most people thought of artificial intelligence as a technology made for the futuristic world— of flying cars and having robots as friends a la The Jetsons. But in 2019, AI is really no longer an intimidating technology. Most don’t realize that some of the apps and ser...

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Nov 05, 2019

On LinkedIn, Ron C. of CoreSolutions Software said, “Cybersecurity is no longer just a technical problem. It’s now more of a people problem! So why aren’t businesses prioritizing security awareness training for their staff?” There was a massive response and mixed agreement. R...

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Nov 05, 2019

Cyberattacks have become common to the point of being considered one of the strategic risks that businesses across all industries face today. In recent years, there’s been an upsurge in hacking incidents targeting organizations both large and small. Typically, attackers are driven by the inten...

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Nov 05, 2019

Tech leader Elon Musk is known for sounding the alarm bells on the risks of artificial intelligence. Musk has said that he believes that AI will soon manipulate social media if it hasn’t already — a concern that pales in comparison to his previous predictions of a future humanity governe...

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Nov 04, 2019

Microsoft’s mission to ‘Empower every person and organization on the planet’ isn’t just a slogan that’s on the back of our badge: It’s something we live and breathe every day. From safeguarding elections, to protecting global biodiversity, to driving accessibility...

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Nov 04, 2019

NVIDIA is working with Microsoft to extend GPU-accelerated, AI-powered intelligence and visualization from Microsoft Azure to the enterprise data center and out to the edge. It’s part of our collaboration with Azure to deliver powerful software and hardware technologies to customers.

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Nov 04, 2019

It’s difficult to imagine building a digital business without using APIs, writes Richard Hartley, CEO, Cytora. APIs democratise access to variety of specialised third party services, such as payments, search and navigation, enabling developers to rapidly create new products without having to b...

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Nov 04, 2019

If a mine collapses or an earthquake strands people underground in a subway car, first responders can’t rush into that unknown subterranean environment without potentially endangering themselves. A rescue team must ensure an area is structurally sound and air is breathable before pushing forwa...

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Nov 04, 2019

Ever-increasing computing power and the development of effective prediction algorithms has caused a surge in Machine Learning applications within the last decade. Closely related and usually considered as a sub-field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning is the process of automatic detec...

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Nov 03, 2019

We live in a fabulous era of technological achievements. Practically something new, something better emerges every day. But can we catch up? The recent speed of innovation outpaces the capacity of many individuals and teams to adapt. That is why the playing field for business is changing. Over the p...

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Oct 31, 2019

Artificial intelligence (AI) is an exciting technology that seems to be seeing fresh breakthroughs every other day. While starting a career in AI will enable you to spend your days working with some of the most talented developers around for a great salary, it can also be highly competitive and invo...

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Oct 31, 2019

Artificial intelligence (AI) has permeated enterprise operations to the point that it now determines an organization's success, including in the area of project management. In a new report, Project Management Institute (PMI) examines how six AI technologies are affecting today's project mana...

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Oct 30, 2019

The U.S. government, long a proponent of advancing technology for military purposes, sees artificial intelligence as key to the next generation of fighting tools. Several recent investments and Pentagon initiatives show that military leaders are concerned about keeping up with -- and ahead of -- Chi...

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Oct 30, 2019

Before we can design ethical artificial intelligence, regulate AI appropriately or allocate tasks to the right systems, we need to know what AI is. How do machines think now and what can we expect in the future? Which tasks are suited for AI, which ones are not, and why? To answer such questions, we...

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Oct 29, 2019

Elon Musk is the tech tycoon behind numerous companies, including SpaceX, Tesla, Nueralink, The Boring Company and OpenAI.During an event at Stanford University in 2015, the entrepreneur was asked by DFJ General Partner Steve Jurvetson what his vision was for 20 years time, or 2035. Musk had an inte...

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Oct 29, 2019

We’re blowing it with general cybersecurity education. According to a study by the Pew Internet Research Center, most Americans don’t understand or can’t identify basic cybersecurity concepts such as two-factor authentication, private browsing, or the purpose of a privacy policy. W...

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Oct 29, 2019

In reality, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has already become an important technology across all sectors, enabling new capabilities that serve communities and companies. However, a lack of trust still hinders its uptake. The potential risk factors of AI necessitate a wide involvement of critical stake...

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Oct 28, 2019

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been getting a lot of buzz for the last few years, touching upon virtually every area of human activity. Even relatively levelheaded people sometimes seem to be sure that “strong AI” — AI with an intellectual capacity equal or exceeding that of a hu...

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Oct 28, 2019

Image processing is the technical analysis of an image by using complex algorithms. In image processing, an image is an input, and useful information is the output. According to a report, the image processing industry will reach USD 38.9 billion by 2021. Similarly, Artificial Intelligence industry i...

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Oct 24, 2019

Media giant Netflix shared its new and freely available multi-language programming notebook, Polynote. The company has done this to help streamline the process of machine learning and data science development for others. Polynote was created to allow data scientists and AI researchers to integrate N...

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Oct 24, 2019

Marketers were reluctant to use AI in their digital marketing ethics a few-years back but recently, they acquired more confidence in using AI to form their online strategies. As intelligent tools keep on evolving, marketers are dropping down their hesitation and adopting AI solutions to drive digita...

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Oct 24, 2019

The digital-first economy we now live in is built on businesses trying to harness the insights from the vast amount of data they have in order to make real-time decisions across their customer touchpoints. Unfortunately, as digital commerce has grown, so has fraud, especially on the backs of the hig...

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Oct 23, 2019

We’ve come a long way since the introduction of the steam engine in the 1700s. That invention signaled the start of the first Industrial Revolution, which was followed by the second (electrification) and, more recently, by a third (computerization). Today, we are on the edge of yet another: th...

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Oct 23, 2019

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already reconfiguring the world in conspicuous ways. Data drives our global digital ecosystem, and AI technologies reveal patterns in data. Smartphones, smart homes, and smart cities influence how we live and interact, and AI systems are increasingly involved in recru...

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Oct 23, 2019

If you’re like me, one of the first things you do when you leave the house in the morning is put on your headset. I may be joining a meeting, calling a friend, getting coffee – sometimes all three – before I even set foot in the office. When I get to work, I’m collaborating w...

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Oct 22, 2019

It seems like every photo shown of a business in action these days features a bunch of people in a huddle room, looking productive – just like our own Poly beauty shot below. But the technology that is IN the room really matters most to the people who are joining remotely – the people NO...

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Oct 22, 2019

OpenAI, a non-profit co-founded by Elon Musk, recently unveiled its newest trick: A robot hand that can ‘solve’ Rubik’s Cube. Whether this is a feat of science or mere prestidigitation is a matter of some debate in the AI community right now. In case you missed it, OpenAI posted an...

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Oct 22, 2019

As the IoT devices are escalating, enterprise data volumes are also multiplying. Conventionally, the sensitive data gathered by IoT devices has been largely stored in the cloud but as the latency introduced between data centers and end-users, the arrangement has become baseless. The organizations ca...

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Oct 21, 2019

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), digital marketing and design thinking are the top skills that organisations will need to focus on to drive future growth, according to a new study. Despite the increased awareness around upskilling, the survey by ed-tech company Great Learning ...

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Oct 21, 2019

Google Cloud recently announced that it had been named as a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for Full Life Cycle API Management. In the 2019 year’s report, Google (Apigee) is placed on the Top on Gartner’s “ability to execute” axis. Google Cloud recently announced that it had bee...

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Oct 21, 2019

A survey amongst 307 corporates, ranging from SMEs to large corporates, highlights that tech upskilling in skills like artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital marketing and design thinking is crucial for boosting their organizational performance. Conducted by Great Learning, the survey ai...

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Oct 17, 2019

Business owners who have no assistants have to do everything on their own: from facing their clients and partners face-to-face to solving urgent problems and developing new ideas for products. As all people have only 24 hours in a day, and it cannot be expanded, it is impossible to handle all the da...

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Oct 17, 2019

As we near the end of another great year for martech, Marketers are already preparing for the road ahead. Here is my martech hack for all marketers working with AI, or those planning to do so in the coming month. There’s a lot of hype surrounding artificial intelligence in the marketing world ...

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Oct 16, 2019

In contemporary times, technologies are all about Artificial Intelligence. It is being estimated that by 2021, 80% of technologies will have artificial intelligence foundations. Businesses are leveraging these tech tools to improvise their processes. Artificial intelligence revolution has started an...

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Oct 16, 2019

Over the last few years, digital transformation has had a dramatic effect on the way businesses communicate with consumers. Now that smartphones are the main way that consumers engage with an organization, the focus is shifting toward creating a better customer experience overall. In fact, according...

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Oct 16, 2019

The term ‘Artificial Intelligence’ (AI) is currently trending as a revolutionary new technology that will change the face of business forever. The reality though is that AI is actually not new, and the phrase is being misused to cover a broad spectrum of different concepts. One of those ...

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Oct 15, 2019

People living in this digital world has till now missed the real potential of Artificial Intelligence as well as Machine Learning. Believe it or not, the AI, along with ML, has completely revolutionized the entire digital world and is making a big difference in digital marketing. According to one re...

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Oct 14, 2019

If investors are looking for that one great AI company that will also end the world, then they should forget Alphabet or Amazon. I’d put my money on the Japanese firm Cyberdyne Inc. Why? Because it bears the same name as the company that created the Skynet AI in the Terminator films. Skynet fu...

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Oct 14, 2019

Artificial Intelligence has begun to enter every spectrum of business and every day life. We have started experiencing transformation in travel, entertainment, shopping, food delivery, banking, learning, personal assistants, to name a few. In many of these examples, AI is playing assistive, augmenta...

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Oct 12, 2019

Artificial intelligence is a necessary way to help make the various types of data collected from different digital POS understandable and logical in their context – whether that data is ordered or not – in order to extract quickly actionable business insights, provide customized customer...

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Oct 10, 2019

It’s impossible to create a security system that removes the user from the equation. They are integral and they have to be part of your security program. Security is defined by the individual. The minimum expectation you can have of your users is that they’ll operate in good faith. Avoid...

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Oct 09, 2019

In the age of technology, if a marketer doesn’t use artificial intelligence in his strategies, he already lagging. The technology helps marketers to form their strategies and also execute them. Influenced by the era of disruption, the new marketing terms include – artificial intelligence...

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Oct 09, 2019

We are constantly in pursuit of better, faster, and deeper ways to learn. We are in an age where education is more accessible than ever before. And, adult learners are busy people and making time for learning is rarely a priority. How can you change that? You may want to consider learning how chatbo...

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Oct 08, 2019

The arrival of superhuman machine intelligence will be the biggest event in human history. The world’s great powers are finally waking up to this fact, and the world’s largest corporations have known it for some time. But what they may not fully understand is that how A.I. evolves will d...

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Oct 08, 2019

Business Insider is as fascinated by the adventures of Elon Musk as The Daily Devil’s Dictionary is by his hyperreal illusion machine that clearly beats anything the illusionist David Copperfield has been able to devise. An article informs us of the latest carefully engineered and publicized b...

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Oct 07, 2019

Artificial intelligence, long the promise of the future, has finally arrived in the present. From smart retail and entertainment suggestions to facial recognition that helps tag you in pictures, AI has made fast inroads into our everyday lives, and promises even more down the road. AI is also having...

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Oct 07, 2019

In recent years, the marketing and sales domain have seen major transformations as disruptive technologies like Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning continue to advance. These advanced analytics tools portray a vital role in assisting the marketing and sales teams that they require. AI and m...

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Oct 06, 2019

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has influenced the interaction between humans and devices. You can see the impact of AI on a smartphone in different industries like an advertisement, telecom, machinery, travel, and utility. Along with AI, one will also find extreme usage of Machine Learning (ML) too. M...

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Oct 06, 2019

Quite the shocking claim; yet, believable, nonetheless. To a world where artificial intelligence has a dominant position in the economy and a predominant role in the lives of each and every human, it’s surprising to consider that it may not be as smart as we believe. But it’s not to say ...

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Oct 04, 2019

Creating a Skill with Python is very similar to how it is done in NodeJS. One of the main differences is that you can either use decorators or classes; similarly to NodeJS for example, you need to implement handle and can_handle methods. For your development environment, depending on how you want to...

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Oct 03, 2019

As global digital adoption continues to skyrocket, the world is in dire need of highly skilled marketers. Clearly, the website helps in creating an ever-connected, ubiquitous digital touchpoint – thereby opening avenues for higher sales and engagement. So, in the words of Neil Patel, you can&r...

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Oct 03, 2019

Marketing is changing rapidly, and it has reached the point that some schools of thought now advocate throwing out the rule book entirely and instead running on a constant diet of experimentation and reinvention. Most of this evolution comes from changing tech. As technology evolves, so do marketing...

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Oct 02, 2019

Last week Google released several thousand deepfake videos to help researchers build tools that use artificial intelligence to spot altered videos that could spawn political misinformation, corporate sabotage, or cyberbullying. Google’s videos could be used to create technology that offers hop...

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Oct 02, 2019

It’s hard to argue against the promises of account-based marketing (ABM). Focusing your marketing efforts on ideal accounts that are actively in the market for your products and services seems like a recipe for success in any industry. But the truth is that many ABM programs fail to achieve me...

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Oct 02, 2019

There’s no denying how valuable event marketing can be for any B2B business. Studies have shown that 84% of B2B leaders believe events are critical components of business success. But not all event marketing strategies are created equal. Without the right strategy, events can quickly become a ...

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Oct 01, 2019

The interaction between humans and machines has long been a relationship that captures our imagination, from Fritz Lang’s Metropolis in 1927 to 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1968 to I, Robot in 2004. Today, those once-futuristic scripts have morphed into living reality. Artificial intelligence, or ...

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Sep 29, 2019

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is simulated human intelligence accomplished by computers, robots, or other machines. Sects of AI include language processing, visual recognition, decision-making, speech recognition, conversation, translation, pattern matching and categorization, machine learning, and t...

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Sep 29, 2019

Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology is now a big thing now in digital marketing. All digital marketing operations are now affected by AI-powered tools. From startups to large firms are opting for AI-powered digital marketing tools to enhance campaign planning & decision making. AI-based tool...

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Sep 27, 2019

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being used by organizations and the technology can play an especially strong role in helping them with analytics and business intelligence (BI), so organizations should start investing in AI if it’s not already doing so, according to research compan...

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Sep 26, 2019

This article is part of Demystifying AI, a series of posts that (try to) disambiguate the jargon and myths surrounding AI. Twenty years ago, the people interested in artificial intelligence research were mostly confined in universities and non-profit AI labs. AI research projects were mostly long-te...

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Sep 26, 2019

AI and machine-learning can evoke polarized opinions in public discourse: For example, many welcome AI as a means to reduce repetitive and mindless work; others fear it for exactly the same reason, thinking AI coupled with robotics will replace human jobs. But in the XM research world, the scales ar...

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Sep 26, 2019

Friday 20 September saw over 4 million people participate in climate change strikes worldwide, with 300,000 people in the UK taking to the streets to show their anger around the lack of action from global leaders. Another strike is due to take place on 27 September, bookending the newly dubbed Globa...

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Sep 25, 2019

Chatbots are both the wave of the present and the future. Research estimates that by next year, a whopping 80% of businesses will utilize this kind of AI technology, primarily as a real-time chat tool with consumers via instant messaging. How can you best refine your chatbot technology so it pleases...

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Sep 25, 2019

Even if you don't have extensive technical knowledge of Application Programming Interfaces or APIs, chances are, you use this technology daily. It's in action every time you share a YouTube video on Facebook, every time you re-tweet a relevant news article on your Twitter account, or every t...

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Sep 25, 2019

Most organizations still conduct sales planning as a manual, once-per-year exercise, due to the painful and time-consuming nature of the process. Since this is traditionally viewed as a burdensome task, it’s common that once sales plans are set in motion, companies rarely go back to evaluate a...

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Sep 25, 2019

According to McKinsey and Company, by 2030, 70% of companies will have adopted at least one kind of AI technology. The expansion of AI also stands to have a significant impact on the world’s economy and job-force. The hype around AI has also led to a rapid increase in companies investing in AI...

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Sep 24, 2019

So you want to scale DevOps while maintaining software quality? You have to understand the basics first. The qualities of a good software can be well illustrated by a software triangle divided into three parts. Before diving into actionable tips, here are the main features of a good software you sho...

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Sep 24, 2019

We simply don’t hear enough good news cybersecurity stories that make those involved proud. What are the cybersecurity stories that aren’t being told publicly that should be? Michael Farnum, Set Solutions, said, “If you come into the job and aren’t willing to critically revie...

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Sep 23, 2019

With modern businesses relying upon heap of data to better understand their consumers and market, the technologies like Big Data are gaining a huge momentum. Big Data, just like AI has not just landed into the list of top tech trends for 2020, but is expected to be embraced by both startups and Fort...

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Sep 23, 2019

Selecting an architecture is a critical step in crafting any AI model, but it’s easier said than done. Excepting those generated by “autoML” systems that work from a basic task outline, their design is informed by a combination of historical precedent, domain knowledge, and trial a...

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Sep 22, 2019

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a key driver of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Its effect can be seen in homes, businesses and even public spaces. In its embodied form of robots, it will soon be driving cars, stocking warehouses and caring for the young and elderly. AI holds the promise of solvin...

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Sep 20, 2019

Increasing sales adoption of Priority Engine, incorporating its data into other systems, and measuring its success are a few key areas in which Priority Engine users commonly seek advice. We recently met with a variety of Priority Engine users and gathered their experiences tackling these common cha...

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Sep 19, 2019

There have been so many predictions about the future of work, so many viewpoints on what the future looks like in an artificial intelligence world. Will AI dominate our existence or come alongside us to figure out how we free ourselves up to do more of the things that are meaningful to us? A few wee...

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Sep 19, 2019

During the past two years, Sales Mastery, Inc. (SMI) has been studying and cataloging the various artificial intelligence (AI) applications aimed at increasing sales rep productivity. With categories like: Appointment Setting; Automatic CRM Record Creation/Updating; Buyer Intent Analysis; Forecast M...

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Sep 19, 2019

Even early concerns related to artificial intelligence (AI) have not appeared to slow its adoption. Some companies are already seeing benefit and experts are saying companies not adopting new technology will not be able to compete over time. However, AI adoption seems to be moving slowly despite ear...

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Sep 19, 2019

When you read about the artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities today’s DAM vendors offer, you’ll be faced with a myriad of choices. You’ll find everything from claims of automated, out-of-the-box AI to the ability to ‘train your own AI.’ To help make sense of these c...

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Sep 18, 2019

The age of the Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) is over. Electric cars are the future. The transition has just begun, but the move from ICE vehicles to Electric will happen sooner and more quickly than most people suspect. What are the factors that lead me to say this with such confidence? However, ...

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Sep 18, 2019

My role here at SAP is IoT Evangelist. It’s my job to go around and speak about how the Internet of Things is changing the way we live, work, and run our businesses. IoT Evangelist is a job title that didn’t exist 5 or 10 years ago – mainly because the Internet of Things wasn&rsquo...

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Sep 18, 2019

Spreadsheets are the most common tool used to manage data in sales organizations. In fact, more than 75% of companies rely on spreadsheets for their sales planning, forecasting, and sales compensation management. However, the business landscape is growing increasingly competitive—can tradition...

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Sep 17, 2019

What’s the single most important development shaping the future of how companies drive business value from their data and analytics capabilities? According to MIT Sloan Management Review, it’s the convergence of big data with artificial intelligence. Yet many companies, when presented wi...

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Sep 17, 2019

Artificial intelligence (AI) is thrown into conversations about the future of business tech with increasing frequency. Many enterprises now have programmers beavering away on bespoke algorithms to automate tasks or services, which they hope will give them a competitive advantage. These algorithms ar...

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Sep 16, 2019

Valuable marketing insights are hard to find in the mountains of data many marketers are now faced with – resurfacing them requires more sophistication than manual methods can deliver. Machine learning and AI has come to the fore in this regard. So much so that 92% of companies have increased ...

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Sep 16, 2019

The role artificial intelligence will play in robotics will largely be determined by use cases and the resolution of privacy and computational issues. Robots have the potential to change the way companies do business by automating many tasks. When combined with artificial intelligence (AI) technolog...

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Sep 16, 2019

Artificial intelligence dominates the headlines, part promise and part specter, as society grapples with how technology is changing the way we work and live. Both hype about AI’s immediate potential and fear about its effects are exaggerated, according to MIT Sloan professorThomas W. Malone,di...

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Sep 16, 2019

For many B2B marketers, attracting and generating leads is often the primary goal. However, how to attract leads varies widely from company to company. While the inbound lead generation strategy should be unique to your firm, there are several best practices or do’s and don’ts for attrac...

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Sep 16, 2019

Tagging based on AI enables assets to be tagged automatically upon ingestion. This smart tagging service creates tags or metadata without human intervention, saving marketers time while reducing the potential for human error. Most importantly, tagging assets or adding metadata to assets using AI imp...

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Sep 14, 2019

In the last few years, Account-based Marketing has taken over as a better way to engage with modern B2B buyers. When sixty-nine percent of marketers say converting leads is their top priority, a winning ABM strategy requires sound alignment between the sales and marketing functions—and, as the partn...

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Sep 13, 2019

In a short span of time, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI ML) have become the central marketable assets for SaaS and Cloud businesses. “Technology Maturity” of the organizations which are already offering and leveraging AI ML and data infrastructure in the Cloud range fro...

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Sep 13, 2019

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning form the core of many industries today, not barring marketing. AI helps bridge the gap between data science and execution. Artificial Intelligence Marketing is an emerging technology that is poised to become an essential part of marketing strategies in th...

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Sep 13, 2019

According to the company, referencing research by KPMG, inefficient contracting has been estimated to cause firms to lose between 17% to 40% of the value on a given deal, depending on circumstances. “Pactum’s AI helps companies improve their bottom line by implementing bespoke negotiatio...

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Sep 12, 2019

Infosys Knowledge Institute (IKI), the thought leadership and research arm of Infosys, today unveiled market research titled ‘Infosys Talent Radar 2019’. The report revealed several insightful findings, most importantly about the talent famine, skills in high demand, the rising importanc...

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Sep 11, 2019

In today’s world Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning, making a difference in our lives. But still some people not really understand the difference between them and what they are. At times they used as a synonym and other times as distinct. The differences between AI and Machine L...

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Sep 10, 2019

Infusing artificial intelligence (AI) into business operations is about more than implementing cool, new technologies. AI is a fundamental capability that companies can use to create better experiences, more intelligent products, and smarter processes. Applying a human lens to AI helps companies det...

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Sep 10, 2019

However, with a regular commute time that consumes a couple of hours each day, I have shifted my focus to podcasts and audiobooks. One of my favorite podcasts is the Inside Sales Enablement series by Scott Santucci and Brian Lambert. In their last episode, they spent time reviewing their thoughts an...

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Sep 10, 2019

The majority of the time I only had access to two TV channels, three on a good weather day, and I vividly remember when I first saw a color television. At this time, products and services were limited, and buyer choices were almost non-existent. Fast-forward to 2019. Not only do I have access to hun...

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Sep 10, 2019

You probably guessed “customers” or “clients” right? This is because you thought from a business perspective and you are absolutely correct! When it comes to getting questions answered or problems solved, there is one thing that almost all customers have in common – the...

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Sep 10, 2019

The prospects of what artificial intelligence (AI) can do for marketing and other business initiatives is well-documented. McKinsey & Company, for instance, reported in a study that AI improved on traditional analytics techniques in 69 percent of potential use cases. The real challenge is how to...

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Sep 10, 2019

Sales forecasting is the map of estimated sales performance, revenue, and expenses that guide a sales organization in their planning processes. Having an accurate sales forecast is crucial to driving revenue, growth, and profitability. The most successful companies are consistently looking for ways ...

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Sep 09, 2019

Think of sales and marketing campaigns in a traditional sense and you may well dream up the heady days of billboard advertising or the golden age of television advertising. In short, these days are gone. In a modern sales and marketing environment, rather than the art of advertising, there is now a ...

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Sep 09, 2019

AI will change the consulting industry, helping deliver quicker, more accurate insights to clients, while reducing costs. Introducing the new technology can be easier said than done however, and firms should bear in mind five key factors if they are to succeed in their transformations. Artificial In...

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Sep 09, 2019

Like the IBM researcher who presented on a joint project between IBM and MIT to create smarter AIs, I’m not a fan of the term AI.  But don’t get me started on naming because, when I did it, I discovered a new rule and that rule is that “the only thing folks will agree on when ...

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Sep 09, 2019

Artificial Intelligence models and programmes mimic the functioning of human brains, helping machines learn make decisions in a more-like manner. But how exactly they arrive at decisions is unknown. In order to understand this, a group of researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-Hydera...

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Sep 07, 2019

In today’s disruptive age, Computer Vision has gained a lot of traction as it is poised to transform industries, and is making lives easier. It is an artificial intelligence technology enabling computers to understand and label images. Its use cases are video surveillance, self-driving car tes...

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Sep 06, 2019

AI is often being linked to Industry 4.0 in a similar way to the invention of steam engines (First Industrial Revolution), Mass Production (Second Industrial Revolution) and the emergence of the digital age (Third Industrial Revolution). We’ve been roping in the benefits of AI on a regular bas...

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Sep 05, 2019

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are being heralded as a way to solve a wide range of problems in different industries and applications, such as reducing street traffic, improving online shopping, making life easier with voice-activated digital assistants, and more. The cyberse...

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Sep 05, 2019

The future of Artificial Intelligence (AI) depends on many factors. Advancements in computing power and the implementation of regulations are just two external influences that could significantly impact what AI will be able to do in the years to come. Before we get to the exciting future uses, howev...

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Sep 04, 2019

Over the next three years, embedded artificial intelligence (AI) will dramatically reshape the customer experience across nearly all industries, with most major businesses providing some type of AI-centred customer experience. Today, 43% of businesses are already leveraging some form of AI, accordin...

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Sep 04, 2019

As attention spans wane, contract and become more sparse, always-on optimisation has become the Holy Grail for marketers. Here, Leah Pope describes the profound uplifts AI stands to deliver marketers who are willing to invest the time and understanding. Customer journeys are becoming increasingly co...

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Sep 03, 2019

Digital marketing landscape is changing constantly. That why it’s crucial to always stay ahead of trends and implement the same in time. Metrics used to measure digital marketing and the level of interactivity involved has come to create new opportunities for marketers. Customer experience, fu...

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Sep 03, 2019

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technology are crucial to modern-day data-driven businesses, according to Gartner's recent AI and ML Development Strategies report. Nearly 60% of respondents said they have AI deployed in their businesses today, and expect to double the number of...

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Sep 02, 2019

With the advent of DevOps and Continuous Delivery, businesses are now looking for real-time risk assessment throughout the various stages of the software delivery cycle. Although Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not really new as a concept, applying AI techniques to software testing has started to be...

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Sep 02, 2019

As we enter into a new decade, technology will continue to accelerate. We'll likely see massive developments in space travel, quantum computing, and a significant increase in the proliferation of software into our daily lives. In the modern era though, it seems like everything around us is const...

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Aug 30, 2019

With the emergence of technology, there has been a shift in the way customers interact with brands through a conversation. Also, with the rise of wearable devices and IoT, businesses are capable of providing rich conversational experience to customers via chatbots and voice-enabled apps. Besides, it...

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Aug 28, 2019

As artificial intelligence continues to shape societies and change economies around the world, business leaders need to be aware of the power of the technology and their responsibility for its ethical deployment, implementation and management. Business leaders understand that AI will give their comp...

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Aug 28, 2019

Legacy code sometimes resembles a sleeping monster that software engineering teams learn to tiptoe around. When enterprises try to modify or upgrade this code, they face a few barriers—one of which is that every small change in the app’s code could have far-reaching, unexpected consequen...

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Aug 28, 2019

As artificial intelligence becomes ever-present, new models of thinking about our relationship to technology and business will go through changes we can’t envision. Just as leaders in AI think about how not to build algorithms that hurt Black people, it is critical that Black people take agenc...

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Aug 25, 2019

APIs are a set of tools and protocols used for building software and models. There are various types of APIs like Local API, Web API, and Program API, which help machine learning developers communicate with each other and share knowledge across various platforms. In this article, we are listing down...

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Aug 25, 2019

Artificial intelligence happens to be one of the top trending fields in the tech industry. A couple of decades ago, only a handful of top organizations in the world uses it. However, with some advancements in cloud computing, most Internet users can enjoy the luxury to avail the sheer benefits of AI...

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Aug 23, 2019

Everyone knows that artificial intelligence will change business in fundamental ways. AI is the future of everything and the hottest trend not just in IT, but also in business leadership circles. What is somewhat less known is the role that 5G will play in this AI transformation. Whereas AI will dri...

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Aug 23, 2019

Businesses are increasing the pace of investment in AI systems to defend against the next generation of cyberattacks, a new study from the Capgemini Research Institute has found. Two thirds of organizations acknowledge that they will not be able to respond to critical cybersecurity threats without A...

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Aug 23, 2019

The integration of AI into digital marketing can make marketing campaigns much more efficient and streamlined. Although digital marketing has relied heavily on human creativity, artificial intelligence can do the job using only data. Presently, AI cannot impersonate human emotions such as empathy, c...

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Aug 22, 2019

Did you know that only one percent of cold calls even lead to an appointment, according to a popularly cited study by Baylor University's Keller Center for Research? The problem with cold calling is that it lacks a personal touch. Most of the time, the sales rep doesn’t offer anything the ...

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Aug 22, 2019

A seismic shift is predicted for the automotive industry that could see worldwide sales of electric vehicles surpassing 30 million by 2030. Safety, energy density and charging capability of batteries will need to improve dramatically though. Does artificial intelligence hold the key? The stakes for ...

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Aug 21, 2019

With the growing incorporation of technologies in the mobile world, everyone is expecting better opportunities in the form of experience-as-a-service. They are raising questions on the capabilities of normal mobile apps while posing a clear demand for personalized experience. A ripple effect of this...

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Aug 21, 2019

Today’s brands face numerous challenges. They need to create a customized, excellent experience for each and every customer worldwide. To do that, they need to create high-quality, on-target content. They need to create that content quickly, effectively, and for audiences who speak multiple la...

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Aug 20, 2019

Lace-up your sneakers and step up to the starting line: you’re ready to reach countless customers in new markets.  You’ve secured your spot in the Global Marketplace (whether by default or design).  But before you sprint away, take a good look around you. You are not alone in t...

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Aug 20, 2019

Undoubtedly, yes! In the foreseeable future, Artificial Intelligence or AI would have a profound impact on almost every piece of software available in the market, including Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, in some form or fashion. AI in ERP is going to affect the very essence of system-co...

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Aug 20, 2019

There is increasing use of Proof of Concept (PoC) projects in a range of sectors and applications. Often these projects are used to build up hype and expectation for a new product or service. Projects involving Artificial Intelligence also usually involve ‘cool’ and innovative concepts, ...

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Aug 19, 2019

University of Western Australia's (UWA) DNA Zoo initiative has been awarded a grant from Microsoft for a project that aims to help protect more than one million animal and plant species that are at risk of extinction. DNA Zoo is a global initiative that involves more than 55 partners in eight co...

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Aug 19, 2019

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming digital marketing and it has benefited it in several ways. AI digital marketing strategies will help companies to improve their customer experience as well as do effectual marketing. The following are the ways AI has adapted in the digital marketing world...

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Aug 17, 2019

Artificial intelligence resources are touted as necessary tools to compete in today’s market, and many businesses are jumping on this bandwagon. According to a 2019 survey by Gartner, AI usage grew 270% over the last 4 years tripled in the last year alone. Why? Because current data demonstrate...

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Aug 16, 2019

Artificial Intelligence trends are all the hype of recent times. It is fascinating how AI is influencing so many sectors of different industries. Ever since the advent of Artificial Intelligence, the fundamentals of Industries started to change for the better. Now, every other company, irrespective ...

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Aug 15, 2019

In today’s world of advertising, high-end technologies like Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are at the forefront of every innovation. They make it possible to transform datasets that allow better decision-making. The recent development of accessible and affordable advanced da...

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Aug 14, 2019

Artificial intelligence is a topic that evokes many opinions and predictions. I have heard people express concern that AI will take jobs away from humans and an overall fear of the technology. However, I have also heard countless others, including Paul Roetzer, explain how AI will enhance human know...

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Aug 14, 2019

What character appears in the most films and television programs? Dracula? God? Santa Claus?  All of those make the top ten list, but none is the correct answer. Satan (or The Devil) is a character is more than 840 projects – more than any other character. If you limit the list to mortals...

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Aug 14, 2019

This is the third in a series of articles on creating, maintaining, and optimizing great customer experiences in the context of mounting concerns about privacy and increasingly strict regulations governing data processing. We address topics such as consent strategies, the role of trust, the elements...

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Aug 13, 2019

Terminator and The Matrix got it wrong. We all thought the villains of the AI era would be killer robots or hostile programmes. Instead, they’re face-ageing apps and YouTube creators with too much time on their hands. Turns out the biggest problem with machine learning isn’t the machines...

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Aug 13, 2019

This week we speak with David Carmona, General Manager of AI at Microsoft. Carmona discusses how redefining a business process is a very different kind of AI adoption project than working on something that is horizontal. He discusses how to attack both of these scenarios, which to handle first, and ...

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Aug 12, 2019

Artificial Intelligence abbreviated as AI is the self-performance of machines and computers without any human interference which means it is the ability of machine’s intelligence to manage tasks on their own. What is the Future of Artificial Intelligence? It is presently blooming in all areas ...

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Aug 12, 2019

Data can be the lifeblood of a business or its most damaging liability. Important documents are often stored in ramshackle file systems – or worse, copied to the cloud with little to no process controls. In fact, about 40 percent of corporate data that is uploaded to the cloud uses ad hoc file...

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Aug 12, 2019

Have you ever noticed the stark differences between the advertisements shown on our respective Facebook pages, even under the same roof? From Husband to Wife, Mother to Daughter, Sister to Brother, our screens are inundated with an array of contrasting products, services and political campaigns. Whi...

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Aug 09, 2019

Gartner predicts a whopping 70% growth in artificial intelligence (AI), while niche vendors such as KenSci and viz.ai are shaking industries with their industry specific intelligence. In addition, software vendors such as Informatica and Microsoft are heavily investing in putting pervasive AI in the...

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Aug 09, 2019

Over two hundred years ago, an inventor named Wolfgang von Kempelen unveiled his latest creation in Vienna: a chess-playing robot known as the Mechanical Turk. At the time, the device was viewed as a masterful automaton but it was later revealed to be a clever illusion, controlled by a hidden human ...

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Aug 08, 2019

AI systems have become quite competent at recognizing objects (and actions) in videos from diverse sources. But they aren’t perfect, in part because they’re mostly trained on corpora containing clips with single labels. Frame-by-frame tracking isn’t a particularly efficient solutio...

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Aug 07, 2019

Microsoft used its latest mixed reality capture technology to create an on stage human sized hologram. Well this isn’t new. What is new this time around is that the hologram from the demo below was speaking Japanese. A language Microsoft CVP, Azure Marketing doesn’t speak. Using mixed re...

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Aug 07, 2019

neurosurgeons develop the skills they need before they step in the operating room, according to a new study. Research from the Neurosurgical Simulation and Artificial Intelligence Learning Centre at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital (The Neuro) and McGill University shows that machine...

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Aug 06, 2019

The AI revolution is here and is rapidly transforming both business and personal ecosystems. AI has become commonplace across many aspects that we interact with every day. The power of AI is not just changing the way businesses function, but even how governments operate. As organizations continue to...

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Aug 06, 2019

Going by the current trends in the industry, both Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Analytics have a key role to play in the economy. The combination of BI and Data Analytics is a massive force driving the transformation of all businesses today. AI ML and Predictive Analytics make this transformat...

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Aug 06, 2019

DataTracks, a global leader in providing cloud-based software application for the preparation of compliance reports, announces plans for the next version of its Rainbow software, featuring artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities. Singapore-based DataTracks is a global leader in pro...

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Aug 06, 2019

Hackers are cyberattackers are using more sophisticated methods to break into digital networks; they themselves have also started employing artificial intelligence techniques to bypass detection systems. Cyberthreats can compromise enterprise networks at a greater speed than ever before, and cyberse...

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Aug 05, 2019

One of the most influential technologies of the past decade is artificial neural networks, the fundamental piece of deep learning algorithms, the bleeding edge of artificial intelligence. You can thank neural networks for many of applications you use every day, such as Google’s translation ser...

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Aug 05, 2019

The CTO of SnatchBot, Avi Benezra, recently said that he truly believes that the decade of 2017-2027 is the one that will provide the necessary tools for the true artificial intelligence revolution. The automation of marketing and customer care went through a transformation. In the sector I work wit...

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Aug 01, 2019

My mother lives 5,000 miles away in Cairo, Egypt. When she calls me, she can immediately tell if something is wrong, simply from the way I say “Hello” or “I’m fine”. Like many relationships with those we hold close, my mom and I have built a level of trust to the point ...

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Aug 01, 2019

There is a vast number of products sold online through various outlets all over the world. distinguishing, matching and cross-checking product for functions like worth comparison becomes a challenge as there aren’t any international distinctive identifiers. There are several things wherever ac...

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Jul 31, 2019

The AWS DeepRacer is an almost toylike 1/18th scale race car. It comes with all of the sensors and software tools to help developers build machine learning models to drive the car around a course — or really do anything else they want it to do. The $399 DeepRacer launched at AWS’s massiv...

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Jul 31, 2019

Artificial intelligence is the technology field that seems to hold the most potential for the federal government. In recent months, the Trump administration and Congress have also indicated their growing support for direct federal funding and R&D. In March, the administration released an Overvie...

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Jul 31, 2019

Technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) will have a significant impact on the enterprise. By increasing efficiencies and improving data-driven insights, they will bring fundamental improvements to the way we work and live. But what are the ethical considerations s...

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Jul 31, 2019

Elon Musk has uncovered stunning plans which will see one of his organizations, NeuraLink, embed chips into the human mind to connect it with an artificially intelligent computer. Musk and his colleagues portrayed the brain-machine interface configuration they’re wagering on, which will utiliz...

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Jul 30, 2019

Once a year I have my annual AI conversation when my research scientist brother comes to visit. Words like machine learning and algorithms enter my world, as I learn of the many amazing and alarming ways that AI is being applied around us. That’s when I first heard of Stitch Fix from my sister...

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Jul 30, 2019

It should come as no surprise that the best and most important careers of both today and the future reside under the interconnected fields of machine learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI). As the driving forces behind everything from self-driving cars to surgical robots and Google algorithms, th...

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Jul 29, 2019

At a recent conference in San Francisco, Gary Dickerson took the stage and made a bold prediction. The chief executive of Applied Materials, which is a big supplier to the semiconductor industry, warned that in the absence of significant innovation in materials, chip manufacturing and design, data c...

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Jul 29, 2019

The reason ETL is so important is that most data a business collects is not ready, in its raw form, for an analytics solution to digest. In order for an analytics solution to create insights, the raw data needs to be extracted from the application where it currently resides, transformed into a forma...

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Jul 29, 2019

From its presence in our daily apps to larger business applications, AI impacts our everyday lives in varying degrees — even if we’re not always aware of it. In the field of business intelligence, however, AI has a more visible impact. Business professionals are aware of the changing nat...

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Jul 29, 2019

Artificial Intelligence—or AI—has become an increasingly hot topic in the marketing world as of late.  The reason for this is simple: AI technology can automate tasks, simplify complex processes, and organize complicated data sets just as a real marketing professional would—on...

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Jul 29, 2019

Care to explain that me?” is one of the great intimidating conversation starters in the business world. It puts the recipient on notice that you, for one, are not impressed with his or her point of view on a given topic. But, what if you have to ask “Care to explain that to me?” to...

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Jul 25, 2019

Each day, more than 130 people die from opioid-related drug overdoses in the United States, according to estimates from the National Institutes of Health. The advancement of better practices for pain management to combat this crisis is one of the top priorities for the U.S. Department of Health and ...

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Jul 25, 2019

Everyone wants a part of the IoT sphere, and many people don’t even realize the smart devices they’re using fall under the category. IoT, or the Internet of Things, is comprised of hardware that functions thanks to the existence of the internet. Where some high technology is strictly sof...

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Jul 25, 2019

In Basel, Switzerland at this week’s 18th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB) and 27th Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB), IBM will share three novel artificial intelligence (AI) machine learning tools called PaccMann, INtERAcT, and PIMKL, that are d...

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Jul 24, 2019

Enterprises often face inescapable inefficiencies in their operational footprints that demand automaton solutions. With its prebuilt bots and framework, Robotic Process Automation (RPA) can help in speeding up software bot implementation for less complex and repetitive administrative functions in th...

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Jul 24, 2019

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a fictional element or a science of the distant future wherein robots and humanoids rule our world; it is here and enabling revolutionary transformations across industries. The supply chain industry, experts believe, will benefit massively from this AI-led t...

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Jul 24, 2019

Deep learning, an advanced form of artificial intelligence (A.I.), is all around us, and it’s growing increasingly ingrained in how we live and work. Deep learning tech is “the brains” behind the automated traffic control on our city streets, our sophisticated translation systems, ...

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Jul 24, 2019

Researchers often struggle to find the right participants for their clinical trials. Many studies have very specific requirements, and it is imperative that these studies not only enroll enough participants but that these volunteers meet the proper inclusion criteria as well. To facilitate the recru...

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Jul 23, 2019

It has already impacted almost any segment of our lives. It helps us get feedback from brands in real-time; it minimizes the risk of human error and automates most of our daily activities; it improves the photos we take on our smartphones; it assesses our creditworthiness, and so forth. One of the m...

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Jul 23, 2019

The growth of artificial intelligence is evidential. Although we might see it, AI is truly changing our lives directly or indirectly, starting from its application in voice assistants such as Siri, Google Assistance, and Alexa to large scale applications in the supply chain, retail, manufacturing, e...

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Jul 22, 2019

Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have caught the attention of the masses. We’ve come to the point when we explore the ways these innovative technologies can help us achieve our business’ digital transformation goals. Adobe's research from last year shows that on...

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Jul 22, 2019

Researchers have developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered tool that can harvest information in chest X-rays to predict long-term mortality. The findings of this study, published in the journal JAMA Network Open, could help to identify patients most likely to benefit from screening and preve...

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Jul 22, 2019

These and many other insights are from Capgemini’s Reinventing Cybersecurity with Artificial Intelligence Report published this week. You can download the report here (28 pp., PDF, free, no opt-in). Capgemini Research Institute surveyed 850 senior executives from seven industries, including co...

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Jul 19, 2019

It is well documented how A.I./machine learning has been used over the past 30 years to help financial institutions prevent fraud on consumer credit cards. The reason why this was a particularly good use case for the first advances of this technology, was the ever-growing amount of data. As we know ...

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Jul 18, 2019

Artificial intelligence has long been viewed as a malevolent entity, dead set on eradicating humanity, or at least, putting its members out of commission. However, artificial intelligence is far from that, which brings us to the question: what exactly is AI? According to Techopedia, artificial intel...

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Jul 18, 2019

This Microsoft partner is slated to change the way Connected Car solutions are evolving with AI, Cloud, IoT and Edge Devices. Scope Technology has announced its successful migration to Microsoft Azure today. The partnership includes Scope’s adoption of Azure to enhance their advanced enterpris...

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Jul 18, 2019

Climate change is the biggest challenge facing the planet. It will need every solution possible, including technology like artificial intelligence (AI). Seeing a chance to help the cause, some of the biggest names in AI and machine learning—a discipline within the field—recently publishe...

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Jul 18, 2019

In the wake of revelations of Russia’s attempts to hack into American voting machines during the 2016 election, states have invested heavily in new systems with heightened security measures. There’s just one problem: the software on the new machines is aging out and will soon not be supp...

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Jul 18, 2019

Unless you’ve lived under a rock for the past several years, I’m sure you have witnessed the buzz around “AI” and the claims that thanks to Artificial Intelligence, unemployment rates will skyrocket because robots will take over our jobs. Sounds a bit apocalyptic– and t...

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Jul 17, 2019

Good mental health is perhaps the most important thing a person needs to function, yet most people fail to take it into account. Taking stock of mental well-being is a good way to improve all areas of life, since ultimately a person’s feelings, actions, and motivations originate in the mind. S...

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Jul 17, 2019

In our weekly Supply Chain Briefing series, we discuss how technology is transforming the various stages of the retail supply chain, including product design, demand forecasting, manufacturing, logistics, warehousing, last-mile delivery and sales. This report discusses machine learning, a branch of ...

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Jul 17, 2019

IBM has launched a repository of datasets for training which data scientists can pick and mix to train their deep learning and machine learning models.The IBM Data Asset eXchange (DAX) is designed to complement the Model Asset eXchange it launched earlier this year, which offers researchers and deve...

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Jul 16, 2019

The use of artificial intelligence and machine learning is almost commonplace in the biotech and pharma industry as multiple companies are harnessing the power to aid in drug discovery and development. This week more companies have announced advancements in their AI programming. This morning, San Fr...

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Jul 16, 2019

Emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning are being adopted by almost every organisations in the present scenario. To be in this race, developers have started implementing machine learning models to make advancements in their fields. With all these, mobile applications ...

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Jul 15, 2019

ManageEngine’s new cloud version of its IT service management application includes Zia, parent company Zoho Corp’s AI assistant, in the role of a virtual IT support agent. The new functionality helps IT service desks reduce response times and increase technician efficiency, the company s...

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Jul 15, 2019

One of the errors of traditional business intelligence (BI) has been its standalone, passive relationship to human decisions and business processes. A BI report or dashboard delivers information, but how that information is connected to the decisions and actions that users need to take is often uncl...

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Jul 15, 2019

Artificial Intelligence and robotics have transformed so many aspects of our daily lives. Its power and effects have echoed across numerous industries and fields, from sports to agriculture, business, entertainment, and engineering. Just as all these industries have benefited greatly from AI, so has...

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Jul 15, 2019

The buyer’s journey has changed in a way which leaves many sales and marketing teams struggling to find insight from within what we call the Dark Funnel. However, many technology companies are starting to build solutions to address the radical new way customers engage and buy today by collecti...

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Jul 15, 2019

The role of a Business Development Rep can be a daunting one. Knowing where to prioritize when you have over 1,000 accounts and knowing what content to reach out to them and engage them with can be an impossible task. But if you have the right intent data that can show you where the account is in th...

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Jul 15, 2019

Artificial intelligence, or AI, is one of the most intriguing topics in software development today. It is also one of the most widely misunderstood. For software developers and IT teams, AI offers an array of tantalizing possibilities for making applications faster, more scalable and more efficient....

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Jul 15, 2019

Let's start with a basic question, when you are in a hurry and want to know how something is done which of the two do you tend to do: refer a book about the topic or simply google your problem... If you just said "refer a book", we both know you're joking. This year has been all ab...

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Jul 15, 2019

There’s an unceasing buzz around big data and AI, the opportunities and threats of these technologies and concerns about their future. Meanwhile, companies are installing more and more sensors hoping to improve efficiency and cut costs. However, machine learning consultants from InData Labs sa...

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Jul 15, 2019

Over the next decade, machine learning is poised to transform every industry. Artificial intelligence (AI) signals the arrival of the 4th Industrial Revolution. Machine learning is at the base of this technology feeding, driving and providing solutions for the inevitable disruption that follows. Mac...

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Jul 11, 2019

Over the past 15 years, the traditional retail model has been dramatically disrupted by online retail. With the introduction of online retail, shopping is gradually being transformed from an offline activity to an online one. That was the first retail disruption, but it’s not the last. Increas...

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Jul 11, 2019

Until a decade or so ago, artificial intelligence was -- for most Americans -- something that existed only in the movies. Now, Alexa and Google Home have moved into numerous households and live only to please. According to many reports, 2019 will be the year of AI. A recent McKinsey Global survey fo...

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Jul 11, 2019

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) technologies deliver intelligent functionalities to pre-existing solutions across various verticals including automotive, health care and business analytics. AI and ML collectively offer optimal solutions to the existing problem, and further imp...

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Jul 11, 2019

Artificial intelligence (AI) will inevitably have a significant role in reshaping next-generation wireless cellular networks - from intelligent service deployment to intelligent policy control, intelligent resource management, intelligent monitoring, and intelligent prediction. The journey to tomorr...

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Jul 11, 2019

Communications service providers (CSPs) around the world are all looking for new technologies and services to meet ever increasing customer expectations and deliver the best possible experience. The emergence of 5G is creating real excitement but is also adding even more complexities to ongoing netw...

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Jul 10, 2019

There is no doubt that software systems are one of the most complex and least reliable technological systems that human beings have constructed. Software engineers must usually make assertions about the reliability of software systems after having observed only an insignificant fraction of the possi...

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Jul 10, 2019

EC XON is providing the first AI-powered wireless LAN (WLAN) solution in Africa.

The solution is based on technology from Mist Systems, a Juniper Networks company, which has been an NEC XON partner for 15 years.

“Mist’s intelligent, cloud-based architecture ...

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Jul 10, 2019

The use of mobile applications to enhance business processes across a wide variety of industries is no more news. Many companies and business organizations are steadily integrating app development strategies to improve engagement, enhance efficiency, and boost various work processes across a wide ra...

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Jul 10, 2019

With the business environment becoming more volatile, technology and innovation have become primary value propositions for organizations. Be it software products, mobile gadgets, power sector, virtual reality, wearable tech, internet connectivity, nanotechnology, Internet of Things, digital technolo...

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Jul 10, 2019

Frank Antonysamy, Global Markets Head - Connected Products, Product Engineering, Industrial Operations & IoT at Cognizant, shares his thoughts on how IoT is revolutionizing manufacturing. Specifically, AI and analytics need to be employed if we are to make sense of the data and move beyond simpl...

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Jul 09, 2019

Artificial intelligence is one of the most exciting fields in the world of technology today. It is so powerful, yet subtle that our lives are deeply impacted by it one way or another, and many of us don’t even know it. AI has just as easily become a part of modern Indian workplaces. That is wh...

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Jul 09, 2019

Today, we’re at an inflection point in how we engage with customers to better meet their needs. According to a PwC report, 73% of all people point to customer experience as an important factor in their purchasing decisions. Yet only half of the U.S. consumers say companies are meeting their ex...

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Jul 09, 2019

Artificial Intelligence provides the ability to automate tedious tasks, and enables machines to learn,alert, improve, advise, and sometimes even make decisions. As an integral part of the evolution of software development, artificial intelligence technologies are increasingly being embedded within e...

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Jul 09, 2019

As artificial intelligence advances, it’s the human qualities of our employees that we will value the most – and those with the right mix of soft skills will be most in demand. The attitudes and behaviours needed to thrive in the modern workplace are changing. With digital transformation...

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Jul 09, 2019

Italy has the most confidence in relying on AI (38%), while in the UK only 21 percent of people prefer AI over humans to protect their digital way of life. The research suggests that those who are more open to AI technologies have a positive outlook on the role cybersecurity plays in their day-to-da...

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Jul 09, 2019

When deciding on how to architect a new application, project managers and developer teams have long relied just on their own expertise or gut instinct to choose the right tools. There is a better, more analytical way to build software, according to Iba Masood, co-founder and CEO of Tara AI. Tara AI ...

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Jul 09, 2019

Microsoft announced that its Seeing AI mobile app for those with blindness and low vision now supports five new languages. “Seeing AI is a free iOS app that was designed to empower the millions of people around the world who are blind or have low vision by using computer vision to describe the...

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Jul 08, 2019

From savvier chat bots to automated financial planners, every day seems to bring news of yet another way artificial intelligence is changing how businesses find and serve their customers. But what’s hype, what’s happening, and where is all this headed? A version of this article was origi...

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Jul 08, 2019

Three key trends are driving the need for sales leaders to digitally transform their organizations. First, b-to-b buyers are conducting more of their purchase journey in the digital arena and demanding the same kind of frictionless and seamless customer experience they enjoy as consumers. Second, th...

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Jul 08, 2019

Subscription businesses that charge customers monthly for using their offerings are expanding rapidly in response to consumers’ and b-to-b buyers’ desire to try a product and walk away easily if they’re not achieving the expected value. However, the subscription-based business mode...

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Jul 08, 2019

Many companies have adapted to a “data-driven” approach for operational decision-making. Data can improve decisions, but it requires the right processor to get the most from it. Many people assume that processor is human. The term “data-driven” even implies that data is curat...

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Jul 07, 2019

In keeping with the current emphasis on increasing productivity, potentially high payoffs for knowledge-system investments are to be found in the industrial environments. Some very large investments in "hard" automation have not been as successful in increasing productivity as had original...

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Jul 04, 2019

Email Marketing has evolved for businesses, from just being a way to communicate with subscribers and customers, but now is enabling businesses to use artificial intelligence in order to automate, monitor, analyse and report statistics. In 2019 and beyond, to stay ahead of your competitors, business...

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Jul 03, 2019

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are the latest buzzwords surrounding general technology trends that have also made their way into cybersecurity. Many use the terms interchangeably, but they’re not quite the same thing. ML is a subset of AI that relies on algorithms and l...

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Jul 03, 2019

Artificial Intelligence is at the forefront of almost every new and innovative technology emerging today. Within academia, industry, and, most importantly, the open-source world that bridges the two, AI is the future. The ability to learn, the intelligence in AI, is what sets these systems apart. Th...

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Jul 03, 2019

Digital information technology has made information readily accessible to practically anyone, anytime and anywhere. This has had a profound effect in shaping all aspects of our society from industrial manufacturing, to distribution, to the consumption of goods and services. Inevitably, like in prece...

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Jul 02, 2019

The adoption of AI in the process manufacturing industries is proceeding by leaps and bounds. By now, it’s well known that AI brings a huge contribution to the realm of process and production, but what’s less well known is that AI also influences a number of other touchpoints, adding val...

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Jul 02, 2019

Neural Networks, the buzzword of the date were in fact invented in the mid-1900s. The algorithm that trains a neural network, called the backpropagation algorithm was formulated by the famous Geoffrey Hinton in the 1960s. So why do you hear about it now? Because we didn’t have the computationa...

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Jul 02, 2019

Artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) is becoming a critical tool for organizations attempting to bring automation quickly to network management and IT problem resolution. However, many organizations are still unsure how to deploy AIOps for the most value and to net the full, promised re...

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Jul 02, 2019

Buoyed by higher prices and steady demand, the steel industry has shown its grit in the face of strong headwinds that it has experienced in the past five years. Where attention continues to focus on margin control, steel manufacturers are also looking to diversify their production line, reduce their...

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Jul 01, 2019

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to find greater inroads in almost all aspects of our daily lives, one can only begin to image its impact on the corporate world. A McKinsey Global Institute study suggests that global organizations have invested close to $40 billion in AI, with 90% of the re...

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Jul 01, 2019

Last year the celebrated tech journalist, Walt Mossberg censured online advertisements under the assertion that it ruins the online experience. It looks like Mossberg is not the only dismissive about the interference of AI into our lives and our businesses. The fear of an impending robotic apocalyps...

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Jun 28, 2019

Let is assume you are pursuing a digital strategy that includes the use of artificial intelligence to improve customer experience. Perhaps you are keen to design and implement a large scale conversational customer experience platform. Or maybe your AI enabled products have already given you the edge...

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Jun 28, 2019

There is no shortage of “best practices” based on theoretical ideals when it comes to ABM. But every organization has unique circumstances and needs and it has become increasingly clear that there is no “perfect” approach that applies universally. With this in mind, TechTarge...

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Jun 27, 2019

No less than 85 percent of Belgians are seriously worried about their privacy when they think of sharing personal data combined with AI. This is one of the conclusions drawn from a study by IPSOS and former Minister for the Digital Agenda De Croo. However, from a realist point of view, one thing is ...

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Jun 26, 2019

Today sees the publication of the European Commission’s AI High-Level Expert Group Policy and Investment Recommendations for Trustworthy AI. These aim to ensure that all European citizens and businesses can reap the benefits of innovative AI technologies. At Microsoft, we believe that three ar...

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Jun 26, 2019

Apple’s announcement to acquire autonomous vehicle start-up Drive.AI for an undisclosed amount is likely to provide a boost to its rather secretive self-driving vehicle project named ‘Titan’. Founded in 2015 by a Stanford graduate, Drive.AI was going through financial woes and was ...

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Jun 25, 2019

Artificial Intelligence is all over the headlines, but it's not all over K-12 curriculca yet. Many high schools are still struggling to offer computer science, much less instruction in cutting-edge systems that are designed to take in massive amounts of data and mimick the human brain by making ...

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Jun 25, 2019

As part of our AI auditing framework blog series, Reuben Binns, our Research Fellow in Artificial Intelligence, and Valeria Gallo, Technology Policy adviser, look at how AI can play a part in maintaining or amplifying human biases and discrimination. The fact that AI systems learn from data does not...

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Jun 24, 2019

No matter who your customer is or what you’re selling, it’s more likely than not that your customer will have to go through several steps before choosing to buy your product or service. Think about your own shopping habits: you don’t just buy the first thing you see. The first thin...

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Jun 24, 2019

It takes thoughtful work to scale an e-commerce store. I’m sure you’ve had a few growing pains of your own getting to the point where you are today. However, you’re reading this because you may not be content with where your conversions are at this precise moment. You may not even ...

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Jun 24, 2019

We’ve all heard the term “less is more”. And we’ve been told this applies for landing pages too. I.e. your forms should be short and only ask for only the bare minimum of required information if you want to convert. As an example, one of the main questions someone typically h...

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Jun 24, 2019

A recent study of U.S. business from McKinsey and Company found that only 1% of survey respondents indicated that they saw no value from AI or a negative value. In the manufacturing sector specifically about 80% of respondents saw moderate to significant value. Organizations are still early in the a...

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Jun 24, 2019

Your ears either prick up with interest and attention as soon as you hear the AI acronym or they flatten down in fear and submission at the mere mention of artificial intelligence. Either way and whether you realise its happening or not artificial intelligence is going to play an increasing role in ...

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Jun 23, 2019

Digital Summit, the largest conference series in the digital marketing industry, has invited Mehrguth to share his unique presentation, 5 Data-Validated Tactics to Increase the Experienced Marketer’s Qualified Lead Volume (…and 3 Tactics Guaranteed to Fail) with their audiences across t...

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Jun 21, 2019

An important factor of  learning efficiently is to concentrate completely on what you’re  doing. Every kind of distraction should be avoided. This is only possible if you’re consciously concentrating. Different sounds, radio broadcasting informative material, television, teleph...

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Jun 21, 2019

Forget about cramming vocabulary: the best way to learn a language is by using decoding exercises. Translate a German sentence word-by-word into your native language – thus you will learn the word’s meaning as well as the language’s grammar. Decoding means to “decipher”...

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Jun 20, 2019

In February of this year Duke University in conjunction with Deloitte and the AMA published its annual CMO Survey. Its a very comprehensive survey with lots of different insights. However, one of its newest categories is Marketings use of artificial intelligence. The results are a little surprising ...

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Jun 20, 2019

Service oriented organizations and divisions face a variety of unique challenges including ever evolving expectations of nearly immediate resolution and availability and also fast and intelligent engagements across the whole customer service ecosystem.  The harmony of aligned and intelligent en...

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Jun 19, 2019

An odd topic I know yet popular in its current trending. I am not totally convinced its the right message as it seems to immediately to me position the human as the disposable element in the equation. This in itself has been one of the negative messages in the adoption of automation by its mispercep...

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Jun 19, 2019

To help overcome the skills gap that threatens to undermine their organizations’ digital transformation efforts, HR professionals are turning to artificial intelligence and cognitive computing. These technologies make it possible to attract, identify and continuously train employees for the co...

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Jun 19, 2019

Nothing is more important to the welfare of any company than the quality of the relationship it maintains with its customers. Happy customers are long-term customers perhaps even lifetime customers. Happy customers are evangelists for your brand. Happy customers can spell the difference between a su...

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Jun 19, 2019

One of the many remarkable things about artificial intelligence is that while we tend to think of it as something that will have a big effect in the not-too-distant future it is already transforming peoples lives in profound and powerful ways today. In factories and warehouses, AI is improving workp...

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Jun 19, 2019

In the age of a big data and breathtaking advances of artificial intelligence, social infrastructure promotes digital engagement and active presence. Digital democracy propagates the participation of a growing number of users to interact with institutions and services, ensuring that decisions made b...

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Jun 18, 2019

The data center market is about to go through a significant upgrade cycle in technology that has implications for how data center buildout designs evolve. Several new technologies are all going to hit the market at the same time. The industry is moving towards 7nm technology across most of the semic...

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Jun 18, 2019

The term Big Data is out of fashion. Welcome the new kid in town Artificial Intelligence in short AI. Sharing the faith of the previous buzzword it means everything and nothing. In the public discourse it now roughly translates to everything with data and something digitalization and something neura...

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Jun 18, 2019

In June 2008, the well named IBM Roadrunner supercomputer blew past all competitors by clocking at compute speeds no system on the planet had achieved before. Fast forward 10 years to June 2018. IBM and the U.S. Department of Energy debuted Summit, the world is smartest and most powerful supercomput...

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Jun 18, 2019

According to a developer survey by JetBrains (which also introduced Kotlin, the up-and-coming language for Android development), some 49 percent say they use Python for data analytics, ahead of web development (46 percent), machine learning (42 percent), and system administration (37 percent). Signi...

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Jun 17, 2019

Wimbledon is the tennis tournament every player dreams of winning and one of the highlights in the sporting calendar.  As the world’s leading tennis tournament their brand focus is “in pursuit of greatness” demonstrating their continual desire to strive to be the best while al...

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Jun 17, 2019

Chatbots for business are becoming increasingly common, and can offer a variety of benefits to both the customer and the company. You’ve probably noticed them pop up on retail websites, map pages, and in mobile apps about everything from travel to nutrition. Chatbots provide interactive commun...

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Jun 17, 2019

As I write this, Futurama’s Bender is on my TV expressing his opinions about the flaws of us humans. Although he may take it a little farther than I would, it’s true that we don’t have the best natural detection capabilities. And when you’re talking about detecting structural...

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Jun 16, 2019

I should also state here that we build our own models and services here. So while there are already some easy to consume services made available by AWS/Azure/Google it is not our intention to use them for our production services, unless of course they are a better fit than a custom model. Currently ...

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Jun 16, 2019

The term neural network is a trending word in the tech industry. In reality, they are much simpler than people imagine. Artificial Neural Network is a framework in analogous with the structure of biological neural networks and the way it processes information in the human brain. It enables computers...

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Jun 14, 2019

Many customers have asked us this profound question: How do we realize business value from artificial intelligence initiatives after a proof of concept?  Enterprises are excited at the potential of AI, and some even create a POC as a first step. However, some are stymied by lack of clarity on t...

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Jun 14, 2019

Companies know the importance of finding the right person for the right job. And with talent shortage the top concern for employers this year, many companies are using some form of AI to keep step with the ever-changing digital landscape and how they access talent. At the same time, there are well d...

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Jun 13, 2019

“The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don’t really even notice it, so it’s part of everyday life,” said Bill Gates while referring to the power of technology. This stands utterly accurate for advancements such as Artificial Intelligence enabled C...

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Jun 13, 2019

A recent Google search for the question, “What can AI do?” returned 2.7 billion results. The sheer volume of web pages that speak to AI’s capabilities, real-world applications, and separate hype from reality demonstrate two things: First, people are interested. Second, they’r...

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Jun 13, 2019

Reduced size, weight, and power (SWaP) requirements are also impacting artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) designs. “Translating the commercial and consumer AI accelerator hardware technologies into the deployable, rugged, size, weight, and power (SWaP)-constrained systems m...

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Jun 13, 2019

That’s because that camera is likely not only taking a high-resolution snapshot of your face but also storing it in a database for as long as that large drugstore chain chooses, with no other information associated to you. But every time you walk into that drugstore, or any of their other stor...

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Jun 12, 2019

It may sound a little unbelievable, but my grandnephew can pronounce Alexa better than his parents’ names. That is the name that he hears more in the house. I am sure his house is not alone in this matter. People use AI in their homes for so many purposes. Alexa is just one of them. We keep ha...

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Jun 12, 2019

Recently, we hosted an AI roadshow for NHSScotland in one of our AI labs. Over four days we held five interactive sessions to explore the current application of AI across industry and discuss where healthcare might benefit from the deployment of AI solutions. It was fantastic to see leaders in NHSSc...

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Jun 12, 2019

Python, with its flexibility, robust traits, along with the availability of resources, has been one of the top choices of the developers of a Python development company. Being one of the best programming languages, many business companies are investing in enterprise app development and counting on t...

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Jun 12, 2019

Rescuing wounded soldiers during active battlefield situations is one of the most dangerous positions and the cause of many military deaths. According to researchers, around 86% of battlefield deaths occur during the first thirty minutes post-injury. This is the reason researchers across the world a...

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Jun 12, 2019

Artificial intelligence (AI) makes it possible for machines to learn from experience, adjust to new inputs and perform human-like tasks. Most AI examples that you hear about today – from chess-playing computers to self-driving cars – rely heavily on deep learning and natural language pro...

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Jun 11, 2019

In today’s world, software developers need to be able to create better code in less time. Low-code agile software development can deliver high value to software developers by increasing productivity and helping the organization maintain a competitive edge. With OpenText™ Gupta TD Mobile ...

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Jun 11, 2019

Many organisations are excited about the potential of AI, but still treat it as part of their technology strategy. To succeed in the digital transformation race, leaders need to see AI as an integral part of their business. So we developed an AI Business School to help train this next generation of ...

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Jun 11, 2019

Today, when scientists, programmers, and analysts are trying to comprehend and mold machine learning into artificial intelligence, can we conclude that the future has already begun?If you can’t stop thinking about AI and still haven’t watched the HBO-aired Westworld, you are missing out ...

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Jun 10, 2019

Enterprise networks generate a lot of data. A lot. Imagine a network with 6000+ access points, 10 wireless controllers, a data center, dozens of branch offices, and over 10,000 roaming wireless devices covering an area the size of a small city. Every AP collects telemetry on its operating environmen...

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Jun 10, 2019

For more than a decade, Fortune 500 companies have harnessed AI's phenomenal power to increase the effectiveness and overall ease of implementation of their digital marketing initiatives. But for smaller entities, like many QSRs, this tool and its many manifestations has only been truly accessib...

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Jun 10, 2019

If you’ve read any media in the past several years you’ve probably heard the buzz around “AI” and claims like unemployment rates will skyrocket as AI-enabled robots take over our jobs. Sounds a bit apocalyptic–but false. Artificial Intelligence is a computer science sim...

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Jun 10, 2019

Software vendors will often make commentary on the fact that by implementing robot-based process automation (RPA), artificial intelligence (AI) and machine leaning (ML), you can gather back time to work on higher value activities. The challenges then is to determine what exactly those higher value a...

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Jun 10, 2019

Robust.AI new Silicon Valley robotics startup company recently announced that it is developing the world’s first industrial-grade cognitive platform for robots. And also, it aims to help organizations in a wide range of areas, from development to eldercare and domestic robots, close to the obj...

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Jun 10, 2019

At Next 19 we announced the beta availability of AI Platform Notebooks our managed service that offers an integrated environment to create JupyterLab instances that come pre installed with the latest data science and machine learning frameworks. Today we are excited to introduce support for R on AI ...

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Jun 09, 2019

As we kick off the Microsoft Business Application Summit with our amazing community at Atlanta, I wanted to share some exciting Power BI news as part of the event. You can join us live for the keynote at 8:30AM ET. In a world in which data is coming from everywhere, Power BI is about helping our cus...

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Jun 07, 2019

Humans and their imaginations with regards to artificial intelligence dates back to almost 100 years. The first time when anything closer to the AI technology appeared on the silver screen was in the German film ‘Metropolis’ in 1927 followed by another German film ‘Master of the Wo...

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Jun 07, 2019

On the whole, humans are generally good at identifying emotions, but this mostly happens at an unconscious level and it isn’t always a reliable tool, particularly when it may involve having to make decisions based on this interpretation. According to psychology professor, Lisa Feldman Barrett ...

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Jun 07, 2019

AI is already delivering real value in business. It is being implemented across all industries and business functions creating unprecedented efficiencies in human productivity. That was also the verdict of a recent Forbes Insights survey of 300-plus executives, in which 95% believe that AI will play...

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Jun 06, 2019

When the bombs fell down on Guernica in 1937, Picasso was in Paris. He was working on a mural for the Spanish pavilion at the World Fair when he heard the Basque city had been destroyed; it made him abandon his initial idea and make the bombing the subject of the mural. Picasso worked on the Guernic...

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Jun 06, 2019

The future we were promised may not have arrived in the form of jet packs hover cars and replicators but in more subtle ways the future we were promised has actually already been here for some time. After all artificial intelligence and machine learning have been put to work by tech industry leading...

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Jun 05, 2019

This article is part of Demystifying AI, a series of posts that (try to) disambiguate the jargon and myths surrounding artificial intelligence. Which function of the human brain should artificial intelligence replicate? The answer to that question characterizes one of the debates that is as old as t...

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Jun 05, 2019

AppDynamics, a Cisco organization and application intelligence company, recently declared the AppDynamics Integration Partner Program, a new partnership program that streamlines the expanding technology ecosystem for enterprises through joint effort with technology organizations. AppDynamics has cur...

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Jun 05, 2019

Artificial intelligence and cloud computing have merged to improve the lives of millions. Digital assistants like Siri, Google Home, and Amazon’s Alexa blend AI and cloud computing in our lives every day. With a quick verbal cue, users can make a purchase, adjust a smart home thermostat, or he...

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Jun 05, 2019

At the 36th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2019), June 10–15 in Long Beach, CA,  IBM Research AI will present recent technical advances in machine learning for AI and data science. We’ve led the exploration and development of machine learning technologies for dec...

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Jun 03, 2019

So far in this blog series, I’ve focused on the nuts and bolts of planning AI deployments, building data pipelines from edge to core to cloud, and the considerations for moving machine learning and deep learning projects from prototype to production. Over the next several months, I want to foc...

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Jun 03, 2019

Artificial intelligence, the word so familiar today, was first heard in 1955 by John McCarthy at Dartmouth Conference. This new word then was assumed to be less unusual until 1990 knocked. But the visions, thoughts and demands changed with the lapse of time, and today AI stands as one of the useful ...

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Jun 03, 2019

On Thursday, in a paper published in Science, Alphabet-owned AI research lab DeepMind introduced an artificial intelligence program that can play the first-person shooter game Quake III Arena in Capture the Flag mode with human-level performance. CTF is a multiplayer mode found in most FPS games, in...

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Jun 03, 2019

Your lengthy career in procurement has consisted largely of being beaten up by top management over the need to constantly cut supplier costs. Along comes digital technology to make your job easier — or take it away. That, at least, is the fear of procurement professionals in the age of artific...

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May 31, 2019

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become one of the most talked about technologies in the retail sector. Why? Because AI helps retailers understand customer preferences, provide tailored content that meets each customer’s unique interests, and make informed decisions about where to spend their ...

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May 31, 2019

In 2017 Russian president Vladimir Putin said that whoever becomes the world leader in the sphere of artificial intelligence (AI) will become the ruler of the world. Unsurprisingly, given his position (and previous form), his words were widely interpreted by the press as an attempt to draw divisions...

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May 31, 2019

Artificial intelligence is expected to deliver somewhere between $10 to $15 trillion in value to businesses across industries over the next 10 years, based on estimates from McKinsey, PwC and many other experts in the field. Smarter, fact-based decision-making is the catalyst that will unlock AI&rsq...

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May 30, 2019

Remember when software was eating the world? The trendy observation these days is that artificial intelligence (AI) is eating software. Even Google CEO Sundar Pichai has talked about software that “automatically writes itself.” And certainly if you consider software development to be lit...

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May 30, 2019

Digital advertising, particularly programmatic, has revolutionised how ads are served and enabled the collection of data on a scale that would seem scarcely believable just a couple of decades ago. However activating this wealth of data, along with linking it to offline activity, has been an ineffic...

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May 29, 2019

It's been said that artificial intelligence is the future, but I'd argue AI is very much a thing of the here and now. It's playing an increasingly significant role in marketing efforts, and is taking marketing automation to the next level. And during an era when customers are demanding f...

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May 29, 2019

Improve customer experience and retention with AI marketing automation tech[/caption]It’s been said that artificial intelligence is the future, but I’d argue that AI is very much a thing of the here and now. It’s playing an increasingly significant role in marketing efforts, and is...

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May 28, 2019

Jean-Philippe Courtois, executive vice-president and president of Microsoft global sales, marketing and operations, provided a compelling vision with his opening keynote at the historical United Nations ITU AI for Good Global Summit (AI4G), hosted May 28-31 2019 at UN ITU HQ Geneva. The AI for Good ...

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May 28, 2019

iExec, the company known for bringing exciting new developments to decentralised cloud-computing on the blockchain, have given their fans another reason to wax lyrical about their platform. V3, their major new release, introduces the Data Wallet, a feature that now makes secure data renting possible...

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May 28, 2019

AI (Artificial Intelligence) is a really hot topic at the moment, not just in security but in the wider field of technology. Products we use every day (from smartphones and smart-speakers to cars) are boasting the use of AI technology to aid their functions more efficiently. There is some debate ove...

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May 28, 2019

Artificial intelligence uses algorithms to quickly parse, analyze and spot patterns in massive data sets. Because it can adapt to the input it receives, AI can also mimic human interaction more closely, allowing it to provide more useful feedback to candidates and staff members. AI is an increasingl...

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May 27, 2019

Creative and technical professionals can now access the latest advancements in photorealistic rendering, AI and VR while on the go, with the new lineup of NVIDIA Quadro RTX-powered mobile workstations. At the annual Computex conference in Taipei, NVIDIA today announced a full range of Turing archite...

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May 27, 2019

AI stands for Artificial Intelligence in Computer science. Enterprise Mobility Solutions is way to organize the application. In today’s era every sector wants to work remotely and easily. The term AI stands for Artificial Intelligence in Computer science. In today’s era everybody wants a...

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May 27, 2019

OnGraph has proved its competency in iOS application development through rendering great coding and exceptional UI/UX designing. We have built engaging and elegant iOS applications for 400+ clients all across the world. Backed by 250+ highly skilled and proficient developers, we have rendered most a...

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May 22, 2019

Today, Microsoft is releasing The Future Computed: AI and Manufacturing. This new book provides an in-depth look at how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the manufacturing sector by optimizing digital operations and driving efficiencies, enabling new products and services, and allowing fo...

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May 22, 2019

LG has remained in the limelight for the splendid performance of it home appliances. The company has recently made another groundbreaking announcement in regard to its product. LG will now manufacture its indigenous artificial intelligence chips for smart home products. These chips will enable LG&rs...

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May 21, 2019

Customer experience has changed the commerce game. It gives start-ups the ability to take on multinational corporations. It gives manufacturers the chance to bypass distributors and sell directly to their customers. And it gives retailers the opportunity to digitally connect with their customers on ...

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May 16, 2019

As enterprises continue to play catch-up when it comes to meeting their internal demand for new software services and applications, more enterprises but still, only a minority are turning to low-code development platforms to try to fill the gap. Low-code development platform provider OutSystems rele...

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May 16, 2019

Last week I spent two days at QAD’s Explore 2019 conference. The first day of this annual event was filled with keynotes from executives covering the company’s product capabilities and roadmap as well as overall marketing messaging activities. It was robust with customer discussions and ...

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May 16, 2019

My least productive month for writing has to be November and December. I think I have already discussed that I hate writing in the winter, which is weird because I love the winter. While there are other constrictions, the biggest hindrances are the holidays. I love them. Family, food, gifts, guilt-f...

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May 16, 2019

SAP users are more aware than most of the importance of maintaining one’s ethical standards in the pursuit of greater digital security but ensuring that your data remains safe while simultaneously running a principled IT operation isn’t always easy.

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May 15, 2019

Using intent data to fuel your marketing activities seems like a no-lose situation. It’s an opportunity to gain deeper insight into the behavior of individuals in your target audience. With that information at hand, you should be able to improve the effectiveness of your marketing activities. ...

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May 15, 2019

Over the last two years, ethics in the workplace has taken on a new meaning. We have seen the growth of three approaches: top-down, brand-driven and employee activism. For each approach the following examples springs to mind - Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson taking action after the Philadelphia incident...

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May 15, 2019

Only a few years ago, web search was simple. Users typed a few words and waded through pages of results. Today, those same users may instead snap a picture on a phone and drop it into a search box or use an intelligent assistant to ask a question without physically touching a device at all. They may...

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May 15, 2019

Apart from merely acting as conversational interfaces to deal with customer queries, do they help your business flourish with improved sales and new revenue streams? Yes, without doubt, and specifically if it comes powered by state of the art AI. In this digital age, your valued customers are consta...

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May 15, 2019

There is no formal acronym to celebrate the coming together of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) — obviously it would be AIRPA if there was — but the twining (or at least the joint adoption and development of) these two key enabling technologies appears to...

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May 15, 2019

From complex software systems that sort through medical data, to drones that monitor crop health, South Australian industries are embracing the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) and cutting edge technologies.International AI expert Dr John Flackett says SA is well placed to adopt AI and machine...

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May 15, 2019

Artificial Intelligence is the backbone for many groundbreaking applications in industrial, automotive and video gaming. Now, AI is taking center stage in smartphones, and it goes far beyond applications like digital assistants. The emergence of Edge-AI technology allows moving many of the backend p...

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May 15, 2019

Artificial intelligence ranks among the top current trends in K-12 education tech. AI's evolving role in society is leading to an exploration of practical uses for it in every aspect of our lives.It has overwhelming potential in education, and schools can leverage it to impact learning that tran...

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May 15, 2019

This month is packed with updates on the Azure portal, including enhancements to the user experience, resource configuration, management tools and more. Sign in to the Azure portal now and see for yourself everything that’s new. Download the Azure mobile app to stay connected to your Azure res...

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May 15, 2019

With emerging interfaces, software development kits (SDK) and programming languages, mobile applications are predicted to generate close to $188.9 billion in global revenue by the end of 2020 via App stores and in-app advertising. This is definitely a highly encouraging data for mobile app developme...

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May 14, 2019

Premium files sets new scale and performance bar for Azure Files, providing more power to developers and IT pros.Today, we are excited to share that Azure Premium Files preview is now available to everyone! Premium files is a new performance tier that unlocks the next level of performance for fully ...

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May 14, 2019

In this fast changing world everything is changing , and one among those are drastic change in shopping experience . Gone are those day when people have to visit bricks and moral shops within their vicinity . With the help of technology, buyers are more preferring to buy almost every product online ...

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