DIGITAL CATALYSTS

By Evangelos Avramakis

Technology
Dreamscape Immersive is bringing VR to the masses
The Verge - Bryan Bishop
Leave a Los Angeles shopping center, and take a trip to an ancient temple or the bottom of the ocean Walk into the new Southern California flagship location for location-based VR company Dreamscape Immersive,
Machine Learning
Why Machine Learning Needs Semantics Not Just Statistics
Forbes - Kalev Leetaru
The deep learning revolution has ushered in a new generation of machine learning tools capable of identifying the patterns in massive noisy datasets with accuracy that often exceeds that of human domain
Apple
The Apple Car Is Coming – Here Are Eight Things You Need to Know
idropnews.com - Mike Peterson
Apple is working on a car. Or, maybe it’s simply working on a complex set of technologies related to automobiles and driving… In any case, the …
Internet of Things
What separates leaders from laggards in the Internet of Things
mckinsey.com - By Michael Chui, Brett May, Subu Narayanan, and Ridham Shah
Even among companies working at scale with the Internet of Things, there’s a wide gap between top and bottom performers. Nine practices distinguish …
Artificial Intelligence
The Future of Artificial Intelligence In The Workplace
Forbes - Vishal Marria
Smart technologies aren’t just changing our homes; they’re edging their way into their numerous industries and are disrupting the workplace. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to improve productivity,
Machine Learning
The technique that taught AI to play Go still can’t teach a car to drive
MIT Technology Review
Reinforcement learning (RL), the category of machine learning that relies on penalties and rewards, can be a powerful technique for teaching machines …
Artificial Intelligence
The Future of AI Will Be About Less Data, Not More
Harvard Business Review - H. James Wilson and Paul R. Daugherty and Chase Davenport
Companies considering how to invest in AI capabilities should first understand that over the coming five years applications and machines will become less artificial and more intelligent. They will rely
China
China’s embrace of AI: Enthusiasm and challenges | European Council on Foreign Relations
ampproject.org - 06th November, 2018
In China, enthusiasm for innovation in artificial intelligence starts at the highest levels. In his remarks to the 19th party congress, Xi Jinping …
Heading Toward a Data Disaster
insurancethoughtleadership.com - by Matthew Grant
Summary: New catastrophe threats are emerging, to non-physical assets. The modeling tools of the last couple of decades are no longer sufficient. On …
APIs
The seven make-or-break API challenges CIOs need to address
mckinsey.com - By Keerthi Iyengar, Ling Lau, Srinivas Ramadath, and Vik Sohoni
Application programming interfaces hold great promise for tech modernization—if CIOs develop a coherent strategy in advance. To compete in the digital …
Senior Citizen
Robot assistants built by British Gas company could tackle loneliness in the elderly
The Telegraph - By Olivia Rudgard
British Gas smart-home company Centrica Hive is planning a robot assistant to help tackle loneliness among the elderly. Its new system allows older people to be remotely monitored by their families using
Entrepreneurship (India)
Retailing Trends that Will Persevere the Longest in the Market
Entrepreneur - Franchise India Staff
Learn the upcoming retailing trends to shore up the business in the long run Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. You're reading Entrepreneur India, an international franchise
Artificial Intelligence
China’s Top Expert In AI Predicts That In Just 15 Years Half Of All Jobs Will Be Performed By Technology
The Inquisitr - Kristine Moore
According to Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, China's top expert in AI, job roles like fruit pickers, truck drivers and marketing will be performed by AI in the …
News (U.S.)
After two decades of retail destruction, Amazon is going in for the kill
Axios - Erica Pandey
For two decades, Amazon has grown like wildfire, eschewing profit, pouring all its revenue back into itself, and leaving a wake of destruction in …
CES
AI Weekly: Charlatan AI is a public nuisance
VentureBeat - Khari Johnson
In a hilarious turn of events last month, a Russian robot named Boris was unmasked as a man in a robot suit. Likewise, state-run media in China unveiled its AI reporter in November, and to this day it’s
Virtual Reality
Virtual reality training by companies like Microsoft is saving lives, millions of dollars, and ensuring the future of mixed
CNBC
Companies like Microsoft, Strivr and Pixo VR are developing virtual reality training that's saving the lives of American workers, saving companies …
Business Technology
How Google plans to reinvent the user interface
computerworld.com - Mike Elgan
When the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone 12 years ago, he also introduced to many the concept of the multitouch user interface. He …
Machine Learning
A New Approach to Understanding How Machines Think
Quanta Magazine - John Pavlus
Neural networks are famously incomprehensible — a computer can come up with a good answer, but not be able to explain what led to the conclusion. …
TV shows
The quiet threat inside 'internet of things' devices
theconversation.com - Charles T. Harry
As Americans increasingly buy and install smart devices in their homes, all those cheap interconnected devices create new security problems for …
Consumer Tech
Alexa who? Google Assistant came to Vegas to dominate voice A.I.
Digital Trends - Julian Chokkattu
Google is pushing out a number of upgrades to Google Assistant on smartphones, as announced at CES 2019. From the ability to check into a flight with …
Machine Learning
Entering a New Robotics Age with Machine Learning
electronicdesign.com
Download this article in PDF format. Machine-learning (ML) technology is radically changing how robots work and dramatically extending their …
Fact Checking
Facebook has just launched its fact-checking operation in the UK
MIT Technology Review
Facebook has expanded its global third-party fact-checking efforts to the UK. What’s new: Articles, images, and videos posted on Facebook in the UK …
CES
Bose brings its noise-cancelling tech to cars
TNW - Callum Booth
Ever used a pair of Bose QuietComfort noise-cancelling headphones? Spoiler alert: they’re great at cancelling noise. So, while the idea of a consumer audio company neutering vehicle sound might sound…
Startups
Meet Caper, the AI self-checkout shopping cart
TechCrunch - Josh Constine
The Amazon boogie-man has every retailer scrambling for ways to fight back. But the cost and effort to install cameras all over the ceiling or into every shelf could block stores from entering the autonomous
Autonomous Tech
Continental's autonomous robot dogs could help deliver parcels
dezeen.com - Rima Sabina Aouf
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Technology
Pioneer transforms your iPhone into an in-dash car display
Cult of Mac - Luke Dormehl
While a growing number of cars come with iPad-style in-dash displays, there are plenty of older or cheaper models that don’t. To allow these customers to take advantage of Pioneer’s in-car infotainment
Cognitive Computing
A neural network can learn to organize the world it sees into concepts—just like we do
MIT Technology Review - by Karen Hao
Generative adversarial networks are not just good for causing mischief. They can also show us how AI algorithms “think.” GANs, or generative …
Why data is the new oil: What we mean when we talk about “deep learning” |
Salon - Terrence J. Sejnowski
Thrun later founded Google X, a skunk works for high-tech projects, where the technology for self-driving cars was developed further. Google’s self-driving cars have since logged 3.5 million miles driving
News (U.S.)
Scoop: Bird raising $300 million in Fidelity-led round
Axios - Kia Kokalitcheva
E-scooter startup Bird is raising $300 million in new funding led by Fidelity, Axios has learned. Bird would maintain its existing $2 billion …