Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing our lives. It touches on all aspects of society – private life, business, security – including in the spread of fake news and the challenges posed by the advent of autonomous weapons.
Category: Internet of Things
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a system of interrelated computing devices, mechanical and digital machines, objects, animals or people that are provided with unique identifiers (UIDs) and the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction.
Tech Industries Moves Further Towards ‘Industry-Specific’ Solutions
Whatever massive upsets, inevitable recessionary slumps and downturns we are experiencing globally, some trends are still surfacing. We’re witnessing a continued rise in vertically-aligned industry-specific software application development. This is not just enterprise software, this is Fin-Tech (finance), this is Edu-Tech (education), this is Health-Tech and this is Agri-Tech (agriculture) and everything in-between.
For Better And For Worse: COVID-19 Is Forcing Companies To Speed Up Automation
In its report, Forrester notes that many companies are set to invest more in automation than in rehiring in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, corroborating earlier reports that had claimed many businesses were already planning to accelerate their automation strategies.
General Data Protection Regulation Curse Or Blessing? A Panel Discussion
The GDPR – or General Data Protection Regulation – has continually challenged companies over the course of the last year. What has changed? What are the problems, what are potential benefits? We will discuss this controversial topic with our speakers from different companies as well as an Attorney at Law, who can shed some light on the legal aspects of the GDPR.
Contact-Tracing Apps For COVID – 19 And Why It Is A Threat To Our Privacy
Coronavirus contact-tracing apps harm privacy. Regardless of whether they protect the data they collect, they require users to walk around with their smartphones on all the time, which is a privacy risk in itself. More disturbingly, they normalise the idea of our behaviour and actions being directly managed end masse by apps. Both set dangerous precedents for individual privacy and liberty, far in excess of any risk that our health data might be leaked.
The IKEA Showroom At Your Home With Help Of Mobile Technology And Deep Learning
The company has taken a user-centric approach to how its customers’ data is used, in line with the IKEA customer data promise based on respect for people and their privacy. Accordingly, any photographs used with the new room design capability can be stored, reduced to just data components, or deleted entirely.
Leveraging Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning During A Pandemic
To say that change is a constant is an understatement with the coronavirus turning the whole world upside down. Paired with accelerating cloud technologies where there seems to be no “finish line,” we find ourselves in an environment that is more and more of a challenge for the IT skills of internal teams to keep up.
Shenzhen: The Silicon Valley of Hardware | WIRED Documentary
The film looks at how the evolution of “Shanzhai” – or copycat manufacturing – has transformed traditional models of business, distribution and innovation, and asks what the rest of the world can learn from this so-called “Silicon Valley of hardware”.
Application Of AI To Healthcare, Cybersecurity And Digital Medical Records – The Israeli View
The global outbreak of the new Coronavirus brought to our attention an inconvenient truth about influenza: The seasonal flu kills between 291,000 to 645,000 people worldwide each year. Still, a December 2019 survey found that 37% of US adults did not intend to get a flu shot.
Time To Build “Picks And Shovels” For Machine Learning
Many multi-billion-dollar companies have been built by providing tools to make software development easier and more productive. Venture capitalists like to refer to businesses like these as “pick and shovel” opportunities, a reference to Mark Twain’s famous line: “When everyone is looking for gold, it’s a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.”
Holy Land: Startup Nations – Future Cities | WIRED Documentary
With the most tech startups and venture capital per capita in the world, Israel has long been hailed as The Startup Nation. WIRED’s feature-length documentary looks beyond Tel Aviv’s vibrant, liberal tech epicenter to the wider Holy Land region – the Palestinian territories, where a parallel Startup Nation story is emerging in East Jerusalem, Nazareth, Ramallah and other parts of the West Bank, as well as in the Israeli cybersecurity hub of Be’er Sheva.
What Is The Gig Economy, And What Does It Mean To You?
The development of new technology, better online connections, and stronger workplace mobility has led to the rise of the gig economy. While your gig economy definition may differ depending on who you ask, the general idea is that freelancers performing temporary “gig” assignments may be more beneficial than permanent in-house workers. If you’ve ever booked a getaway with Airbnb, ordered yourself an Uber, or worked with a freelancer on Fiver, you’re a part of the gig economy.
