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Jul 01, 2020

Chatbots have come a long way in the past few years. The improvements in technology have enabled developers to expand on bot capabilities far beyond just functioning as a FAQ. Today, the automation of chatbots can process orders, perform financial transactions, make bookings, and much more. (Check o...

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Apr 28, 2020

The tech industry is almost always playing the balancing act by continuing to drive innovations and at the same time grappling with the side effect of those innovations in the global economy. Though every industry faces this challenge as it becomes more mature, the challenge is unique for the tech i...

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Apr 22, 2020

Ease in doing business.” That is what every C-level execs strive to achieve in their business process and it is no secret that they’ve increasingly turned to Robotic Process Automation (RPA) to streamline enterprise operations.The first digital computers were invented mostly to calculate...

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Apr 20, 2020

SARS-COV-2 has upended modern health care, leaving health systems struggling to cope. Addressing a fast-moving and uncontrolled disease requires an equally efficient method of discovery, development and administration. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning driven health care solutions pr...

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Apr 20, 2020

One of the measures to reduce the spread of coronavirus in the current crisis is social distancing. This entails that when outside people should stay at least 2 metres (6 feet) away from each other at all times. While this is not a difficult requirement to meet for most people, workers in industries...

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Apr 16, 2020

The banking industry has always seemed to be one of the most developed and willing to invest in new technologies. It's no wonder that artificial intelligence has quickly become one of the technical pillars on which the entire modern financial market is built. Not everyone is aware that AI is not...

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Apr 14, 2020

Among the many differences that lie between millennials and the Generation X lies the art of saving. Sometimes enough to create a life for their next generations. Now we are not saying that millennials are not thinking about saving and investing – if not for their future family then for their ...

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Apr 14, 2020

AI and machine learning have been buzzwords in every tech-based industry for at least the past decade.At this point, artificial intelligence and machine learning have entered the email marketing industry as well – an industry that had been sorely lacking innovation and fresh ideas. If used eff...

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Apr 14, 2020

Artificial intelligence has disrupted different spheres of our lives and a number of industries. It has already become commonplace to such an extent that we sometimes aren’t even aware that we’re using the benefits of this advanced technology. For example, every time Amazon recommends a ...

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Apr 10, 2020

The age of traditional computers is reaching its limit. Without innovations taking place, it is difficult to move past the technology threshold. Hence it is necessary to bring major design transformation with improved performance that can change the way we view computers. The Moore’s law (name...

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Apr 09, 2020

This article is part of Demystifying AI, a series of posts that (try to) disambiguate the jargon and myths surrounding AI. In 1956, a group of scientists led by John McCarthy, a young assistant-professor of mathematics, gathered at the Dartmouth College, NH, for an ambitious six-week project: Creati...

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Apr 02, 2020

More than 30 per cent of the 400 patents Adobe filed last year were specifically related to artificial intelligence and machine learning. Adobe introduced its AI capability Sensei four years ago and has since launched hundreds of new AI-powered features and capabilities across its portfolio. Within ...

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Apr 02, 2020

What Artificial Intelligence has in its baggage is known to everyone and thus realizing its potential its funding projections are expected to rise to $46 billion spending by 2020. Billions of dollars are being invested by the venture capital industry to catalyze the rapid technological breakthroughs...

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Apr 02, 2020

Imagine an age where you can read the thoughts of a person via telepathy like Professor X of X-Men comics and uncover their anarchical plans or a tech that reads the thoughts of a mute person or your pets and helps you have better communication. Well, a team at the University of California, San Fran...

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Apr 01, 2020

Most of the time, collaborating on a software project means working with tools like Git—taking turns making modifications, then reconciling the final product into a single codebase. But live collaboration on code—two or more people working on the same file in real time—has become f...

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Mar 31, 2020

A type of artificial intelligence called machine learning can help predict which patients will develop diabetes, according to an ENDO 2020 abstract that will be published in a special supplemental section of the Journal of the Endocrine Society. Diabetes is linked to increased risks of severe health...

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Mar 31, 2020

AI should not be applied to every business in the same manner, according to Chris Meyer, professor of practice and the director of undergraduate education at the Lally School of Management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He details his research on the subject in a new conceptual paper published...

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Mar 29, 2020

Governments all around the globe are using artificial intelligence (AI) to help fight against the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The technology is being used for various different things, including speeding up the development of testing kits and treatments, giving citizens access to real-time data, and ...

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Mar 29, 2020

As our world has become filled with screens in our work as well as personal lives, it has also become filled with more and more visual imagery – and it can all start to feel a bit garish, a bit fake or simply too much. For some time now, whenever I’m in the office, instead of sitting in ...

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Mar 26, 2020

Search and AI-driven analytics provider ThoughtSpot recently announced a collaboration with Google Cloud to launch Embrace for Google Cloud Platform that will enable enterprises to perform search and AI-driven analytics directly in Google BigQuery. The launch of Embrace will help enterprises leverag...

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Mar 26, 2020

Across industries, AI is being used in all manner of ways to increase operational efficiencies, lower costs and improve customer experience. Just use a media streaming platform such as Spotify and Netflix and you can see AI in action, as the algorithms analyze your user behavior, and that of people ...

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Mar 25, 2020

The companies already partner on charging system operations managed services. The new deal, which is already being implemented, includes network operations center services and field services in radio, core and transmission technology. AI-driven intelligent and data driven operations are part of the ...

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Mar 25, 2020

In the wake of the coronavirus crisis, lockdowns and social distancing are accelerating the adoption of e-commerce, online learning, remote work, and online entertainment. And since online platforms and marketplaces generate so much data and rely so heavily on artificial intelligence (AI), their gro...

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Mar 23, 2020

Data-driven experiences are rich, immersive and immediate. But they’re also delay-intolerant data hogs.Think pizza delivery by drone, video cameras that can record traffic accidents at an intersection, freight trucks that can identify a potential system failure. These kinds of fast-acting acti...

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Mar 23, 2020

Coronavirus, COVID-19, is the talk of the town over weeks now if not months. The pandemic nightmare continues to terrorize on a global scale. It is bizarre to believe that bustling shopping malls, house full PVR halls, the crowd at Starbucks phase into Mexican Drug Ghost-towns. As of March 23, 2020,...

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Mar 22, 2020

Researchers have used Artificial Intelligence (AI) to train algorithms and predict tumour sensitivity in three advanced non-small cell lung cancer therapies which can help predict more accurate treatment efficacy at an early stage of the disease. The researchers at Columbia University's Irving M...

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Mar 22, 2020

If not the most deadly, the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is one of the most contagious diseases to have hit our green planet in the past decades. In little over three months since the virus was first spotted in mainland China, it has spread to more than 90 countries, infected more than 185,000 peopl...

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Mar 20, 2020

Microsoft has launched the March replace for its fashionable Python extension for Visible Studio Code (VS Code), its extensively used cross-platform code editor. It is also launched an replace for Java on VS Code with assist for the IDE extension, SolarLint. Probably the most notable change within t...

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Mar 20, 2020

RPA or Robotics Process Automation is one of the most significant technologies in current time. Its ability to automate tedious and mundane tasks has transformed numerous business operations. The market reports have observed that the global RPA market size was valued at US$ 1.1 billion in 2019 and i...

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Mar 18, 2020

The use of Python is catching up to Java in banking and fintech applications, but what are the reasons behind the emergence of Python? While three million developers have joined the Java community in the past year, in the banking sector, Python is fast closing in on Java’s position in top spot...

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Mar 17, 2020

Many famous personalities, such as Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates and Elon Musk, have repeatedly said that the further development of artificial intelligence is associated with many potential risks. Exponential growth led to the creation of extremely advanced algorithms much earlier than anticipated. A...

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Mar 17, 2020

In discussions around the future of AI and cyber-threats, we often wonder when we can expect to see malicious or offensive AI attacks in the wild. While we have not yet seen conclusive evidence of execution, this report will show that all the tools and open-source research needed to facilitate an AI...

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Mar 16, 2020

The writing is on the wall, boldly: Artificial intelligence is here to stay, and it is transforming every aspect of life and business. Over the years, the adoption of AI in recruiting has increased, and that has subsequently improved the hiring processes of enterprises that take advantage of it. Ini...

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Mar 16, 2020

Alphabet Inc's YouTube, Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc warned on Monday that more videos and other content could be erroneously removed for policy violations, as the companies empty offices and rely on automated takedown software during the coronavirus pandemic. In a blog post, Google said that to...

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Mar 15, 2020

Learning to code can be intimidating. It always takes some time and attention to develop any new skill, but for one with as many approaches as programming, it can be particularly nerve-wracking, especially when you’ve never dipped into those murky waters before. Even if you fall into that abso...

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Mar 15, 2020

The world is facing a global public health crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus named SARS-CoV-2. This is a new pathogen, and scientists around the world are researching the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in order to develop therapeutics to treat, cure or prevent the COVID-19 ...

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Mar 12, 2020

Artificial intelligence is the most electrifying and exciting technology in the business landscape. It has the potential to drive value across the business, particularly delivering enhanced customer experience, reducing cost and spurring revenue. From smarter products and services to better business...

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Mar 12, 2020

The book Design, Launch, and Scale IoT Services classifies the components of IoT services into technical modules. One of the most important of these is Artificial Intelligence (AI). This article is intended to supplement the book by providing insight into AI and its applications for IoT. After many ...

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Mar 11, 2020

The latest advancements in Artificial Intelligence have been much tremendous and inspiring. It has become a part of everyday life for almost all consumers. In a large range of domains, the technology has transformed the way humans work and live. From smart home devices like Alexa, Siri, among others...

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Mar 11, 2020

After realizing the potential to affect change while studying systems engineering at the University of Virginia, Brigitte Hoyer Gosselink began her journey to discover how technology might have a scalable impact on the world. Gosselink worked within international development and later did strategy c...

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Mar 10, 2020

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." Isaac Asimov This is a reprint from article in ReadWrite It might appear that data — the information you find in a scientific article, a history book, or a set of survey results &md...

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Mar 10, 2020

Today, optimizing for search is optimizing your customer’s experience. As people query a search engine on their laptop, ask a voice assistant for help, or use their mobile device to find nearby solutions to their needs, brands must be positioned to appear in these critical decision-making mome...

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Mar 08, 2020

According to a Gartner survey, 48% of global CIOs will deploy AI by the end of 2020. However, despite all the optimism around AI and ML, I continue to be a little skeptical. In the near future, I don’t foresee any real inventions that will lead to seismic shifts in productivity and the standar...

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Mar 05, 2020

Concurnas is a new general purpose open source JVM programming language designed for building concurrent, distributed and parallel systems. Concurnas is easy to learn; it offers incredible performance as well as many features for building modern, enterprise scale computer software. What distinguishe...

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Mar 04, 2020

The latest report from Interactions, titled “THE STATE OF AI DECISION-MAKING”, reveals some surprising insights from 151 mid-to-high level managers in the U.S. The Harris Poll conducted the online survey to the marketers – who collectively work for companies with $400 million+ reve...

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Mar 04, 2020

A Gartner prediction says 85% of our interactions will be handled by bots by the end of 2020 diminishing the use of human power. Nearly 50% of businesses are planning to invest in chatbots rather than developing mobile apps. Chatbots aren’t new technologies. It has been here since the 1960s an...

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Mar 03, 2020

Technologies like Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning will enable wider audience to get access to space analytics and insights. Assisted processes through software created by Machine Learning will enable users to run sophisticated models on their data. That is what I see happening in the ne...

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Mar 03, 2020

Are artificial intelligence (AI) and superintelligent machines the best or worst thing that could ever happen to humankind? This has been a question in existence since the 1940s when computer scientist Alan Turing wondered and began to believe that there would be a time when machines could have an u...

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Mar 03, 2020

Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) has been selected by Japanese communications service provider NTT DOCOMO as its AI-based optimization solution vendor for its nationwide radio access network (RAN). The companies have been collaborating on introducing new solutions for decades, recently focusing on 5G proof o...

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Mar 02, 2020

When people discuss artificial intelligence, they're often interested in how it's helping businesses streamline complex business processes and make customer service interactions more interactive. Or people think AI is a force of evil that will replace humans one day. But AI is actually doing...

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Mar 02, 2020

Yet, Java persists. Easy to learn, highly adaptable and a conveniently jumping-off point to learn lots of other coding protocols, Java remains a very in-demand skill set. And with Java developers still average salaries in the six-figure range, it’s still an easy call to look into adding Java t...

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Mar 01, 2020

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a powerful force that is already reshaping our lives, environment, and interactions. It may be defined as a program whose aim is to produce human-like cognitive processes and potentially even improving on them. AI has many facets: it may be algorithmic as in game-play...

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Mar 01, 2020

NVIDIA is helping the transportation industry by giving it access to its deep neural networks (DNNs) for autonomous vehicles. NVIDIA is providing access to its AI (artificial intelligence) model and introducing advanced training tools. This helps the company to strengthen its end-to-end platform for...

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Feb 27, 2020

What would you call a machine that looks like a human? Obviously a Robot! Robots are machines or mechanical human beings that are designed to assist humans with laborious and complex tasks. However, such robots are no more just mechanical design rather they have become smarter with time and advancem...

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Feb 27, 2020

Artificial Intelligence (AI) definitely tops the list of important themes for the drone industry. From data management to flight automation, AI has been part of the description. But how exactly does AI power processes like industrial inspections? An integration between a drone data management platfo...

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Feb 27, 2020

Wouldn’t it be great if you’d know where to find prospects that are most likely to buy? Or what’s bugging them to delay buying? If it was possible to get insights on the purchase-intent of your buyer? Or if they are truly looking to buy? Most businesses spend huge amounts on advert...

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Feb 26, 2020

Technology professionals and the companies that employ them all have their own unique needs, goals, and challenges. Workers often face the question of whether they should stay with their current employer or explore opportunities elsewhere. And companies are often in need of skilled and qualified wor...

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Feb 26, 2020

When talking about advents of artificial intelligence, we hear a lot about its adversarial attacks, specifically those that attempt to “deceive” an AI into believing, or to be more accurate, classifying, something incorrectly. For example, autonomous vehicles can be fooled into “th...

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Feb 25, 2020

Data insights are a critical element to success and businesses strive to use what they've learned Despite it still being a struggle—90% of data and analytics decision makers see increasing the use of data insights in business decision making as a priority, according to a Forrester report, ...

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Feb 25, 2020

As a part of ProgrammableWeb's ongoing series of on-demand re-broadcasts of presentations that are given at the monthly Washington, DC-Area API meetup (anyone can attend), this article offers a video recording, and audio-only podcast, and a full transcript of the Feb 4, 2020 discussion given by ...

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Feb 24, 2020

With fraud losses accounting for about 3% of the nation’s overall health care spending each year, pharmacy benefit management firms would be wise to seize the opportunity to battle endemic fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA). The upside can be significant, according to the National Health Care Anti-...

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Feb 21, 2020

Mayur Shah, senior director of product management at software company WaveMaker, said that low-code platforms encourage collaboration between business units and developers, which can have a long-term impact on a business. "This ability to bring stakeholders and software developers together to w...

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Feb 20, 2020

The Python programming language has been topping virtually every tech trend list for the past two years, so it was no surprise to see it earn another "most popular" ranking in O'Reilly's annual analysis of the most-used topics and the top search terms from its online learning platf...

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Feb 20, 2020

There was a time when cross-platform development was considered a synonym for building an app using React Native and Flutter. The business enthusiasts and mobile app development companies were relying upon these two frameworks to make their presence on both Android and iOS in a cost-effective manner...

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Feb 19, 2020

The use of Python is catching up to Java in banking and fintech applications, but what are the reasons behind the emergence of Python? While three million developers have joined the Java community in the past year, in the banking sector, Python is fast closing in on Java’s position in top spot...

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Feb 18, 2020

If I ask you, "What is the most popular format for microlearning?" your response would most likely be "videos." For most of us, videos have become synonymous with microlearning. Interesting videos with the right storyline, engaging graphics, and optimal speed can be a great micro...

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Feb 18, 2020

There is often confusion around Web Developers and Web Designers, as people consider them to be performing the same set of duties which includes designing a website – when, in fact, that is indeed what both of them do – however, on an entirely different spectrum. So the terms ‘web ...

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Feb 17, 2020

The social media giant Facebook has always been at the forefront of AI advancement. Amid all the controversies and roadblocks in its strive to attain AI leadership, the company is moving forward with innovation and tech developments. These developments are a major result of its acquisitions; small b...

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Feb 17, 2020

Many of us interact every day with Siri, Apple's voice-activated digital personal assistant. It can find information, give directions, send messages and is just one example of how artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a bigger part of everyday life. Machines are getting smarter, but experts a...

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Feb 17, 2020

The social media giant Facebook has always been at the forefront of AI advancement. Amid all the controversies and roadblocks in its strive to attain AI leadership, the company is moving forward with innovation and tech developments. These developments are a major result of its acquisitions; small b...

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Feb 15, 2020

Programming languages such as C, C++, Java and PHP have been used by programmers for many years now, and software companies are often on the lookout for programmers who are well versed with these programming languages. However, with time as the demand has increased for high-level programming languag...

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Feb 13, 2020

When it comes to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) projects, the biggest challenge for CXOs isn't necessarily deployment, but rather, managing these initiatives. For example, what do you anticipate your AI/ML budget will look like? What business areas are you applying AI/ML ...

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Feb 12, 2020

The next step in industrial technology is about robotics, computers and equipment becoming connected to the Internet of Things (IoT) and enhanced by machine learning algorithms. Industry 4.0 has the potential to be a powerful driver of economic growth, predicted to add between $500 billion- $1.5 tri...

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Feb 12, 2020

Whilst there are many people that associate AI with sci-fi novels and films, its reputation as an antagonist to fictional dystopic worlds is now becoming a thing of the past, as the technology becomes more and more integrated into our everyday lives. AI technologies have become increasingly more pre...

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Feb 11, 2020

With the Government investing £250 million into the project, the Lab will consider how to use AI for the benefit of patients – whether this be the deployment of existing AI methods, the development of new technologies or the testing of their safety. Amongst other things, the initiative w...

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Feb 10, 2020

Over the past several years, we have begun to see the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) in businesses. According to a study for the AI Index 2019 Annual Report, more than half of respondents report their companies are using AI in at least one function or business unit. Thirty percent report ...

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Feb 10, 2020

Certain programming skills are always in demand—even among cybercriminals. Recently, an underground Russian forum known as XXS held a competition that sought to give away $15,000 in cash prizes to cybercriminal developers who could write an article or develop a proof-of-concept video on differ...

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Feb 06, 2020

According to HackerRank’s recent Developer Skills 2020 report, the top programming languages that developers are interested in learning next are Go and Python. For the report, HackerRank conducted a survey where over 116,000 developers participated from 162 countries. This report sheds light o...

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Feb 06, 2020

Qiang Yang, a professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, was looking forward to AAAI, one of the big artificial intelligence conferences, which takes place in New York this week. Yang was due to present an award-winning paper describing a way for an AI algorithm to perform imag...

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Feb 06, 2020

When my son was a toddler, he went to his pediatrician for a routine CAT scan. Easy stuff. Just a little shot to subdue him for a few minutes. He’d be awake and finished in a jiffy. Except my son didn’t wake up. He lay there on the clinic table, unresponsive, his vitals slowly falling. T...

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Feb 05, 2020

In 2019, the buzz around technology was all about the Internet of Things applied to industrial and commercial applications—with security and wearables being some of the significant technologies to deploy it. So, while we launch into a new decade, let’s look at those key technologies in 2...

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Feb 04, 2020

Microsoft has rolled out experimental support for gRPC-Web in .NET Core and ASP.NET Core, allowing gRPC-Web to be called directly from the .NET Core gRPC client and ASP.NET Core gRPC apps. Compatible with HTTP/1 and HTTP/2, gRPC-Web is a JavaScript client library supporting the same API as gRPC-Node...

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Feb 04, 2020

Android includes a feature that few use and even fewer know about. This feature is called progressive web apps (PWA). These apps can be installed, without the need for any app store, and live on the Android home screen. PWAs offer an immersive, fullscreen experience and can even offer web push notif...

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Feb 03, 2020

At Bank of America, Erica reminds thousands of customers when their bills are due. She also helps people balance budgets and search for past transactions. Customers love Erica, even though she's not a person -- she’s a bot. But she also represents how businesses can forge successful digita...

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Feb 02, 2020

IT organizations that identify and understand patterns in vast, diverse sets of data are best equipped to find, fix, and prevent performance problems. But when digital transformation outpaces IT performance management, hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure creates complexity—and that comes wit...

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Feb 02, 2020

Devices connected to the Internet are called smart devices. Pretty much everything related to the Internet is known as a smart device. In this context, the code that makes the devices SMARTER – so that it can work with minimal or without any human intervention – can be said to be based o...

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Jan 30, 2020

The world has witnessed the innovations brought in by artificial intelligence and automation that serve with the greatest benefits to businesses. However, despite all the advantages, their arrival wasn’t a positive impact for everyone. A number of workers were fearful of the job losses and lac...

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Jan 30, 2020

Every year 'round this time, we start thinking about what Google's got in store for Android in the months ahead. And broad trends aside, the biggest questions tend to revolve around the year's upcoming Android release. Some Android versions are mostly about under-the-hood improvements, w...

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Jan 30, 2020

Arvind Krishna, IBM’s incoming chief executive, has a tough task ahead of him. He will replace current boss Virginia Rometty in April, the company announced on Thursday. Shareholders won’t miss her: At $121 billion, Big Blue’s market value has almost halved since she took the reins...

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Jan 30, 2020

When you drive a car, how would you know whether the car needs maintenance? You might look for status indicators like a check engine or change oil light. Similarly, when a pilot flies an airplane, they rely on a multitude of metrics and data to ensure the plane is running smoothly. Managing IT infra...

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Jan 28, 2020

Since its launch in 2002, SpaceX has passed a series of significant milestones over the years. By December 2008, NASA awarded SpaceX a $1.6 billion contract for Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) to the International Space Station (ISS). In 2011 SpaceX publicly announced the Reusable Launch System D...

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Jan 28, 2020

Ferragu boosted his price target on the equity to $800, implying that the stock could gain another 57%, which fuelled Tesla's most recent success.Many reports suggested that Tesla is not only attracting customers from the all-electric-luxury vehicle market but also the entire luxury car market.M...

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Jan 28, 2020

Tesla was officially founded in 2003 with the goal of inventing an electric car that was powerful and beautiful with zero emissions.Eberhard and Tarpenning asked to meet Musk to share their idea of the electric car with him.Tesla, as part of its secret to success, continues to focus on creating elec...

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Jan 28, 2020

Today’s companies put huge efforts into negotiating the best terms with their suppliers. Procurement teams regularly spend weeks or months going back and forth on contract terms and volume discounts to get the most bang for their buck. Too often, these savings aren’t realized. Suppliers ...

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Jan 28, 2020

If there’s doubt about whether artificial intelligence has reached a tipping point in business, a recent report attempts to settle that question. The recent KPMG report, “Living in an AI World,” says that artificial intelligence (AI) has reached critical mass in enterprises. Two-th...

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Jan 28, 2020

Tesla became the first carmaker in the world to build launching autopilot and full self-driving vehicles in 2014.Manual suggests, features of autopilot cars manage many things but still needs all time supervision of drivers.While the vehicles have won praise and a passionate fan base, the electric c...

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Jan 27, 2020

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are transforming multiple sectors of the economy, and impacting several aspects of our daily lives. Workplaces such as those in finance, healthcare, retail, education, and technology are leveraging AI to automate tasks, reduce costs, and make da...

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Jan 27, 2020

There’s a lot of talk about how AI will take over many jobs. It’s one big reason why people are hesitant to implement it in their lives. For entrepreneurs, AI can look like a huge risk. It feels like a massive overhaul needs to be done in order for it to run efficiently. You’ll nee...

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Jan 27, 2020

With the shift to REST APIs, the risks involved in DevOps culture is increasing because of new attack vectors. What can be done to counteract this? To find out I asked an expert to share his thoughts with us on this subject. Dmitry Sotnikov is an 11-time recipient of the Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable...

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Jan 27, 2020

Now that we’ve entered 2020, it’s time to shed light on what the upcoming decade means for our customers, for the technology landscape, and for HPE. In the past decade we’ve seen trends like APIs, big data, containers, IoT, SaaS, software-defined, (and an alphabet soup of everythin...

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Jan 23, 2020

The AI revolution is here, and it's transforming global business. With over 72 percent of organizations having adopted AI, its rapid advancement brings about numerous ethical challenges. Explore the importance of an ethical and responsible AI deployment for the success of your business. Rumman C...

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Jan 23, 2020

With the growing popularity of data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence has come a growing demand for developers with the skills needed to fill roles focused on those fields. One sign of that demand is the booming number of users of GitHub, which is owned by Microsoft, over the pas...

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Jan 23, 2020

The digital transformation of brick-and-mortar stores may create an opportunity for organizations to better personalize customer interaction. The recent NRF Retail Big Show conference brought out the likes of Panasonic, Cisco, Samsung, and Tobii Pro who discussed how different data capturing technol...

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Jan 22, 2020

The concept of Artificial Intelligence or Robotics or Machines that can think like human and make decisions like humans goes back to Antiquity and Greek Myths. Who doesn’t know about Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as well as Karel Čapek’s play R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots) ...

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Jan 22, 2020

Microsoft Outlook is an effective and powerful program on its own, but perhaps there are features and options you wish it offered. One way to expand the power and flexibility of Outlook is through add-ins. Microsoft provides an array of add-ins, both free and paid, and many are geared for business u...

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Jan 22, 2020

JavaScript is the skill that is most in-demand for IT in 2020, according to a report from developer skills tester DevSkiller. The report, “Top IT Skills report 2020: Demand and Hiring Trends,” has JavaScript switching places with Java when compared to last year’s report, with Java ...

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Jan 20, 2020

In the battle royal for smart home supremacy, Google is hardly a minor player -- but that doesn't mean Google Home loyalists aren't prone to suffer a little Alexa-envy now and again. Sure, there's a handful of things Amazon's voice assistant can do that Google Home can't, but Goo...

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Jan 20, 2020

As anyone involved in programming will tell you, Python is an immensely popular language. From finance to machine learning, developers around the world rely on Python to get their jobs done—and employers recognize that, which is why they’re so intent on hiring Python specialists. In orde...

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Jan 20, 2020

This could be said is a short guide for any budding developers wanting to finalise the best programming language to further their career path in 2020 and beyond and is based on the summary of my experience and the safest bets for you to learn when you think of things like salary, popularity of the l...

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Jan 18, 2020

Web application development, the creation of application programs that reside on remote servers and are delivered to the user's device over the Internet, is one of the most important sectors of the modern information technology (IT) and digital world. Over time, the sector has also grown to beco...

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Jan 17, 2020

Tesla launched its CyberTruck, an all-electric battery-powered light commercial vehicle last year at a remarkable low $39,900 price tag. The CyberTruck launch made headline all over the world. The Halo-inspired polygonal design made of stainless steel body armored with glass windows, 250+ mile range...

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Jan 17, 2020

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is embedded in our everyday lives. AI technologies have become so advanced that it’s not uncommon nowadays to be in contact with them without fully realizing it. In the enterprise, AI solutions such as Process Intelligence (IQ) have witnessed a staggering adoption ...

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Jan 16, 2020

It’s a well-known fact that software development is about how efficiently codes are written and how they are run to see the functioning of the application. This is a regular process that is followed by almost all software development companies. However, there’s the latest trend that talk...

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Jan 14, 2020

There’s something about the start of a new decade that feels important and demands some thoughts about the future. Of course, predicting the future is a risky proposition, but several of my colleagues and friends were game for the challenge! In part one of this series, I focused on the key pre...

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Jan 13, 2020

OpenAI said the investment would go towards its efforts of building artificial general intelligence (AGI) that can rival and surpass the cognitive capabilities of humans. The creation of AGI will be the most important technological development in human history, with the potential to shape the trajec...

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Jan 13, 2020

Tick tock. Tick tock. Time is of the essence in the digital economy. The modern business is more dependent than ever on technology with zero tolerance for outages and delays. Facing rising service demands, modern organizations struggle in a sea of legacy tools to manage increasingly complex, dynamic...

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Jan 12, 2020

What are some bleeding-edge information technology developments that a forward-thinking CIO should keep an eye on? Here are a few emerging technologies that have caught my attention. These are likely to have an increasing impact on the world of business in the future. Consider which ones you should ...

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Jan 10, 2020

If you’re a software developer on the hunt for a new gig (or you’re merely curious about what programming skills employers are looking for these days), one thing is clear: employers really, really, really want technologists who know how to build, maintain, and scale everything database- ...

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Jan 09, 2020

Since the first DevOps day in Belgium in 2009, the idea of integrating development and operations into the software development process spread rapidly. The benefits of this methodology, including faster development cycles, greater efficiency, and customer or user alignment, drove DevOps adoption qui...

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Jan 09, 2020

It can take several months – if not years – to create a software solution from the ground up. The planning, designing, development, testing, and deployment steps to completion are delicate and have little room for error. Low-code/no-code platforms are addressing several parts of this com...

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Jan 08, 2020

Design patterns help us solve design problems often encountered in software development and reduce the complexities in our code. The Gang of Four design patterns fall into three categories: creational, structural, and behavioral. The Flyweight design pattern falls in the structural category. The Fly...

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Jan 08, 2020

Microsoft has taught Visual Studio Code a few new tricks to help Java developers as we ease into the next decade. The main feature is a new Call Hierarchy view. By right-clicking a function and navigating to Peek Call Hierarchy, a developer can see a full list of incoming and outgoing calls (it'...

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Jan 08, 2020

Microsoft recently began testing a new program that helps you personalize your online presence. Bing Pages launched in beta this week and allows you to control how you appear on Bing and other Microsoft products. Twitter user and Windows developer Arlo first pointed the program out. Microsoft's ...

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Jan 08, 2020

The TIOBE Index, which attempts to track the rise and fall of the world’s most popular programming languages, has named C its “Programming Language of the Year 2019.” While that’s mildly surprising—our money was on Python to claim that particular honor—it also mak...

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Jan 07, 2020

It’s got a stainless steel body, armored glass windows, 250+ mile range and the towing capacity of a Ford 150, but what makes the Tesla Cybertruck so revolutionary is the price tag: a remarkably low $39,900 for a zero-emission vehicle packed with market-leading features & technology. The C...

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Jan 07, 2020

Over the last decade, new technological advancements have impacted our industries, economies and lifestyles. Now as we prepare to enter a new decade, we pondered how engineers will build upon those technologies and improve our society for the better. IEEE Impact Creators share their predictions for ...

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Jan 07, 2020

How do you find the right open-source API testing tool for your needs? Since my last roundup of the best candidates, a few more tools have appeared that warrant consideration—and there's a new technique that's the entire buzz in AI automation circles that you need to know about. While ...

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Jan 07, 2020

The speed of software development is constantly accelerating — and the faster it goes, the more automation it needs. Modern DevOps teams make hundreds or even thousands of changes to their software code every day, and with the shift toward microservices architectures, there are more and more m...

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Jan 06, 2020

Everyone wants to be Agile. But not everyone has a clear understanding of how they’re supposed to make that happen. One of the key steps is to properly utilize agile project management software. I know the Agile Manifesto states “Individuals and interactions over processes and tools,&rdq...

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Jan 06, 2020

By now Python users everywhere are painfully aware that Python 2 has reached the end of its lifespan. For Pythonistas, the countdown to January 1, 2020 was about more than watching the ball drop in Times Square; it was also about migrating to Python 3 where possible and mitigating the effects of Pyt...

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Jan 05, 2020

A database is just like a room in an office where all the files and important information can be stored related to a project. Every company needs a database to store and organize the information. The information that we store can be very sensitive so we always have to be careful while accessing or m...

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Jan 03, 2020

It is not that smart algorithms will one day become too smart, as some fear; not that smart machines will one day overshadow human intellect. Rather the danger is that artificial intelligence (AI) machines are viewed by people as more impartial than they are; that their decisions are more objective ...

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Jan 02, 2020

Every year we come across new technology trends in the app development market because customers or users get attracted to new, attractive, and more convenient apps. With so many apps already available in the market, businesses must innovate and come up with novel ideas to earn customers and maintain...

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Dec 30, 2019

Enterprise mobility is radically transforming business models from scratch. In fact, a leading consumer data website declared that the revenue generated by the global mobile app market will touch close to $693 billion by 2021. Nonetheless, a top research outlet, too, has predicted that almost 9,999 ...

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Dec 28, 2019

Experimentation and innovation are the main reasons for the world’s exponential growth and market place success. New technologies, software, tools, and applications are the core of today’s business processes. However, the revolutionary software development industry is shifting gears with...

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Dec 27, 2019

Finding complex solutions to money related difficulties has gotten attainable with headways in technology. Professionals are day by day looking for approaches to utilize computational applications to offer displaying, determining, and hearty trading solutions in the money related part. Here are five...

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Dec 26, 2019

Software as a Service (SaaS), a cloud computing model in which companies provide applications on demand via the internet, has been a popular technology for more than 10 years now. This platform eliminates the need for on-site or "thick clients" to be installed on local systems, facilitatin...

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Dec 26, 2019

Tesla has begun the soft rollout of its “Holiday Software Update” following CEO Elon Musk’s announcement that owners would be receiving a sneak preview of Full-Self Driving, among “other things.” Model 3 owner and YouTuber Tesla Raj gives us our very first look at softw...

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Dec 26, 2019

The quality of an application or software is often attributed to an intuitive user interface, thorough testing, and security. But I think the main aspect of reliable custom software is code quality, which is often neglected. This led me to ask a question that how the code quality can be maintained t...

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Dec 26, 2019

There was a time when Java was going through frequent updates to develop into a language which could introduce performance and stability in the Android domain. Swift too, has been going through changes to become a robust language on which high-end, complex applications can be built. After going thro...

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Dec 25, 2019

Programming languages are a tool for the realization of many powerful data science applications. But, there are so many of them and it has become confusing to choose the optimal one for your specific project. In this article, we are going to talk about popular languages for Data Science and briefly ...

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Dec 24, 2019

The landscape of app ideas is changing with each passing year. Despite the overarching challenges faced by app developers and marketers, mobile app downloads will cross 258.2 billion USD by 2022 while it was 194 billion USD in 2018, according to reports. It does not seem to stop there. According to ...

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Dec 23, 2019

In 2011, Apple unveiled its first iPhone with artificial intelligence, a personal assistant named Siri that could answer questions and help keep track of our daily lives. The AI revolution had begun, and it gave way to higher resolution cameras on phones, such as the then-new iPhone 4S, microphones ...

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Dec 21, 2019

In the last few years, Artificial Intelligence is revolutionizing the aspect of human lives and has become a significant aspect of human lives. AI is delivering, cutting down costs and enhancing several businesses using AI tools. In today’s techno world, there is no doubt artificial intelligen...

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Dec 21, 2019

Artificial intelligence promises to transform — and indeed, has already transformed — entire industries, from civic planning and health care to cybersecurity. But privacy remains an unsolved challenge in the industry, particularly where compliance and regulation are concerned. Recent con...

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Dec 19, 2019

Seriously, what's up with the Tesla Cybertruck? If you're out of the loop, Tesla did what it does best: introduce a new product/idea that makes no sense to anyone other than Elon Musk but will somehow make a bajillion dollars and revolutionize and disrupt multiple industrie. It's the mos...

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Dec 19, 2019

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the ways businesses do business and consumers consume. From initiatives like customer-centricity and inventory management to predicting the future and helping human lives, the use cases for AI are seemingly limitless. LLamasoft works with many of the world&rs...

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Dec 19, 2019

AI is becoming increasingly present in vendor-supplied solutions and everyday business processes, and that means AI risk management cannot be ignored. As tedious tasks are removed from employees’ shoulders, organizations have to figure out how those people are being upskilled to perform differ...

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Dec 19, 2019

At the end of each year, just about everyone makes predictions about new technology, top technology trends and future business trends. The fact is the three have become inseparable. Software development will continue to push out to the edge of enterprises, but not at developers' expense. In fact...

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Dec 18, 2019

Artificial Intelligence programming changes the world of computing technology. It turns how we live, work, and put the status quo in life. AI programming enables a computer to accomplish human-like activities with high speed, quality, and accuracy. The character of AI is it learns from massive amoun...

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Dec 18, 2019

Machine learning is one of the most amazing new things our smartphones can do, but it's a term that's often used and seldom understood. In a blog post, Google took the time to explain in detail how machine learning algorithms were used and implemented specifically in the new Recorder app for...

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Dec 18, 2019

Data has long been coined the new oil, but data on its own won’t power your organization’s learning engine. It’s now critical to transform the data collected by your platform on your learners’ activities into actionable insights. These are used to create unique experiences wi...

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Dec 17, 2019

Chatbots are still considered an emerging technology, but their use is rapidly expanding among all businesses. Why? Because chatbots offer many benefits, including better customer experiences, increased customer engagement and increased sales and conversion rates. Also, with the advancement of artif...

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Dec 16, 2019

It’s difficult to name a particular programming language as “top” or “best.” After all, different programming languages have different uses. But as we close out 2019, it’s hard to deny that Python, despite its relative age and ubiquity, has a lot of momentum behin...

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Dec 16, 2019

C# is one of the most popular programming languages which is used to create games in the Unity game engine. Experiences (games, AR/ VR apps, etc) built with Unity have reached nearly 3 billion devices worldwide and were installed 24 billion times in the last 12 months. We spoke to Harrison Ferrone, ...

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Dec 15, 2019

You love your Mac, but you would probably love it more if it could, well, do more. Turns out, there isn't a whole lot a Mac can't do once you've added the right apps and software. From streamlining your workflow to running Windows programs on your machine, The 2020 Limited Edition Mac Bu...

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Dec 12, 2019

It’s ironic, but artificial intelligence is on the cusp of harnessing the collective wisdom locked inside the human hive mind. Showcasing a piece of software at a debate in the 200-year old Cambridge Union debating society in Cambridge, England in late November, IBM wanted to demonstrate that ...

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Dec 12, 2019

Artificial intelligence could aid in the search for life on alien planets and detection of nearby asteroids, according to NASA officials. NASA hopes to use artificial intelligence, or A.I., technologies such as machine learning to interpret data that will be collected by future telescopes like the J...

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Dec 11, 2019

On the last Private Webinar, we were given the opportunity to see a small part of the ONPASSIVE ECOSYSTEM. This was nice and sweet and an amazing experience, but I am sure many of us still don’t realize the REAL POWER AND VALUE OF our fully Automated Digital Marketing System. I was talking to ...

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Dec 10, 2019

All the world’s tech giants from Alibaba to Amazon are in a race to become the world’s leaders in artificial intelligence (AI). These companies are AI trailblazers and embrace AI to provide next-level products and services. Chinese company Alibaba is the world’s largest e-commerce ...

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Dec 09, 2019

Parasoft, an automated software testing company, announced the release of Parasoft C/C++test, the unified C and C++ development testing solution for enterprise and embedded applications. The release focuses on streamlining safety-critical and security coding standards compliance and reporting, bring...

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Dec 09, 2019

Being in the market for over thirty years now, it is indubitable that Python has become the epitome of simplicity with effectiveness. The gradual increase in its popularity is something that raises the question of “why and how Python is becoming the most popular programming language?”. U...

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Dec 08, 2019

The adoption of Rust programming language by the developers has been increasing in an exponential manner. This language provides the simplicity and security which a developer needs while writing codes. According to the Stack Overflow’s annual Developer Survey, Rust surpassed the ever-popular P...

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Dec 08, 2019

Business Intelligence has had an impactful history as traditional BI originally appeared in the 1960s as a system of sharing information across organizations. In the 1980s, it further developed alongside computer models for decision-making and turning data into insights before becoming a specific of...

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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 04, 2019

How much time does your team spend on various content activities? These include discovering keywords, finding topics, writing, optimizing headlines, and designing your content strategy. These activities are time-consuming but essential for the success of your content marketing campaigns. Now, imagin...

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Dec 04, 2019

It’s almost 2020, which means it’s time to evaluate the skills and programming languages you’ll need to keep your career moving forward in the New Year. While we’ve sparked some good discussion with our previous lists—from the top languages desired by employers to the l...

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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 rights to...

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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 27, 2019

Our customers are living in a data-driven world and the volume of information they generate is growing exponentially. As a result, companies are increasingly investing in the hardware, software, and services needed to gain actionable insights from their data. By 2022, the total addressable market fo...

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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 same ve...

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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

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 scared...

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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 12, 2019

Machine learning and data science are dominating the technology world. Data users use tools like Google Sheets, excel sheets, etc., to store and analyze data, however, these tools have some limitations. The best approach to overcome these obstacles is learning the programming language R. R is a prog...

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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

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 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 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

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

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 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 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 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 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 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 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

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 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 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) 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 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 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

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 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 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 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 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

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 13, 2019

Still think your current martech stack doesn't need an upgrade? Think again. 2019 is gradually coming to a close and marketing channels have shown no signs of slowing down. If you’re a marketer who’s part of a technology-dominated industry, you know well that it’s no longer a b...

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Sep 13, 2019

The aim of marketing is to make selling superfluous.” Peter F. Drucker Tweet This! While selling is an art, it solely depends on the fact how much marketing efforts you have put in to make it possible. And when it comes to marketing efforts it will be incomplete unless you leverage modern tech...

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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

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 it com...

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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 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 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 this race. Yo...

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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

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, the ...

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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 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 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

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

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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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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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—only fas...

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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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