Technology
Study: Automation Drives Income Inequality
When you use self-checkout machines in supermarkets and drugstores, you are probably not — with all due respect — doing a better job of bagging your purchases than checkout clerks once did. Automation just makes bagging less expensive for large retail chains. “If you introduce self-checkout kiosks, it’s not going to change productivity all …
Expanding AI Technology For Unstructured Biomedical Text Beyond English
The health industry is embracing the power of big data, cloud computing, and clinical analytics, harnessing data to deliver insights that can improve care and efficiency. Still, unstructured text remains a challenge—made even more complex by barriers of language. Doctors’ notes and other unstructured text are often left unreferenced, are hard to parse and learn …
Qualcomm Launches Snapdragon AR2 Designed To Revolutionize AR Glasses
During Snapdragon Summit 2022, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. revealed the Snapdragon® AR2 Gen 1 Platform, which delivers groundbreaking AR technology that will unlock a new generation of sleek, highly capable glasses. The Company built Snapdragon AR2 from the ground up to revolutionize the headworn glass form factor and usher in a new era of spatial computing …
5 Tips For A Successful AI Project – Advice From AI Leaders
Investment in AI has soared in recent years but despite the large-scale adoption, 85% of AI projects fail to achieve the return on investment promised during the planning stage. With this increased shift towards AI-based solutions, your organisation may be looking to launch its own AI initiatives in order to drive efficiency and ROI. To …
How Artificial Intelligence Can Help Us Prepare For Climate Adaptation
Over the next few decades, climate change is poised to be a major business disruptor, with the potential financial impact of climate change being estimated to range in the trillions of dollars for the U.S. economy alone. To adapt to this new reality, more granular climate insights need to be generated to empower stakeholders to …
Qualcomm And Renault Group Intend To Extend Their Strategic Cooperation
Renault Group and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. announced today that the companies intend to take their technology collaboration one step further with plans to deliver a centralized compute architecture for Renault’s next-generation of software defined vehicles. Known as ‘Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV) Platforms,’ the high-performance automotive platforms would be based on Snapdragon® Digital Chassis™ solutions from Qualcomm Technologies, …
IBM And Vodafone Join Forces In Exploration Of Quantum Computing Technology And Quantum-Safe Cryptography
IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today at the IBM Quantum Summit 2022 that Vodafone Group is collaborating with IBM on quantum-safe cybersecurity, and also joining the IBM Quantum Network, which will give the company cloud access to IBM’s advanced quantum computing systems, as well as IBM’s industry-leading quantum expertise. The multinational telecommunications company will work with IBM to help …
A Magical Garden In The Gates Tower
When you enter the Stata Center’s Gates Tower, you are bound to encounter something eye-catching. Visitors often notice the cow sculpture atop the café, informative historic displays on the walls, or even a bright screen that utilizes augmented reality (AR) to showcase visual effects like fluid flow and particle systems. Across from the first-floor elevators …
Using Sound To Model The World
Imagine the booming chords from a pipe organ echoing through the cavernous sanctuary of a massive, stone cathedral. The sound a cathedral-goer will hear is affected by many factors, including the location of the organ, where the listener is standing, whether any columns, pews, or other obstacles stand between them, what the walls are made …
Sierra Space And IBM Collaborate On The Next Generation Of Space Technology And Software Platforms
Sierra Space, a leading commercial space company at the forefront of creating and building the future of space transportation and infrastructure for low-Earth orbit (LEO) commercialization and IBM (NYSE: IBM), a technology leader within the space industry going back to the earliest days of the U.S. space program, today announced the signing of a new Memorandum of Understanding …