Microsoft taps London data science hub Pivigo to give UK businesses access to data on demand
By: Emily Nicolle January 30, 2019 Microsoft has today unveiled a partnership with London data science hub Pivigo, giving its customers access to a global network of data scientists on demand. Enabled alongside its Azure suite of machine-learning tools, Microsoft users will be able to tap into Pivigo’s 6,000-strong community of data scientists to help […]
Amazon puts delivery robots on streets – with a human in tow
By: Alex Hern January 24, 2019 Amazon’s drone delivery service may be missing in action but the company has not given up on its dream of robots delivering parcels. It is launching Amazon Scout, a service employing six squat six-wheeled delivery robots, across Snohomish County, Washington, just north of its Seattle HQ. “These devices were […]
Automation and Artificial Intelligence: How machines are affecting people and places
By: Brookings January 24, 2019 At first, technologists issued dystopian alarms about the power of automation and artificial intelligence (AI) to destroy jobs. Then came a correction, with a wave of reassurances. Now, the discourse appears to be arriving at a more complicated understanding, suggesting that automation will bring neither apocalypse nor utopia, but instead […]
CB-Insights_Quantum-Computing
By: CB-Insights January 17, 2019 What is quantum computing? Quantum computers can process massive and complex datasets more efficiently than classical computers. They use the fundamentals of quantum mechanics to speed up the process of solving complex computations. Often those computations incorporate a seemingly unlimited number of variables, and the potential applications span industries from […]
Your phone isn’t really spying on your conversations—the truth might be even creepier
By: Corinne Purtill January 5, 2019 If you have a smartphone, you have had this unnerving experience at some point: After having a face-to-face conversation with a friend or a partner in a private setting, you pick up your phone and see ads on social media that echo the details of your chat to an […]
Robots Aren’t Yet Killing Off All Our Jobs, World Bank Says
By: Natalia Drozdiak January 3, 2019 The rise of automation has so far had a negligible impact on jobs at a global scale, the World Bank chief economist said, despite common gloomy predictions that humans are set to be replaced by machines. While advanced economies have shed industrial jobs over the last two decades, the […]
How robots change the world Oxford Economics
By: Oxford Economics June 2019 The robotics revolution is rapidly accelerating, as fast-paced technological advances in automation, engineering, energy storage, artificial intelligence and machine learning converge. The far-reaching results will transform the capabilities of robots and their ability to take over tasks once carried out by humans. Already, the number of robots in use worldwide […]
Robot Janitors Are Coming to Mop Floors at a Walmart Near You
By: Pavel Alpeyev December 3, 2018 Robots are coming to a Walmart Inc. near you, and not just as a gimmick. The world’s largest retailer is rolling out 360 autonomous floor-scrubbing robots in some of its stores in the U.S. by the end of the January, it said in a joint statement with Brain Corp., […]
Automation and AI Are Going to Decimate Middle Class Jobs
By: Business Insider December 02, 2018 Artificial intelligence and increasing automation is going to decimate middle class jobs, worsening inequality and risking significant political upheaval, Stephen Hawking has warned. In a column in The Guardian, the world-famous physicist wrote that “the automation of factories has already decimated jobs in traditional manufacturing, and the rise of […]