Technology
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As the pace of artificial intelligence acquisitions quickens – and the pool of acquirers expands – here are the companies leading the AI charge. Artificial intelligence has long been a major focus for tech leaders across industries. Big corporations across every sector, from retail to agriculture, are trying to integrate machine learning into their products.…
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For New York University’s AI Now Institute, small startup tech companies and quite a few larger ones, the objective is straightforward: leverage new advances in computing, especially artificial intelligence (AI), to disrupt industries from social networking to medical research. Now it’s that disruption itself that’s under scrutiny. Many experts are working to ensure that, as…
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Forget the titanium Apple Card — Amazon’s latest payment method uses flesh and blood. The e-tailing giant’s engineers are quietly testing scanners that can identify an individual human hand as a way to ring up a store purchase, with the goal of rolling them out at its Whole Foods supermarket chain in the coming months.…
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Blockchain (Distributed Ledger Technology) was created by the release of Bitcoin. Blockchain (not Bitcoin) is a revolutionary technology that will become so enmeshed in society over the coming decades that your grandchildren will ask, “how the hell did you survive without blockchain?” Today’s children can’t fathom how we grew up without the internet, WiFi, smartphones…
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I hope all our US readers are having a great Labor Day long weekend. I also got a flood of emails from Canada chastising me for not realizing it was also Labor Day weekend there. I hope all our Canadian friends have a sensational weekend. The Olympic committee has invested 13 billion dollars since 2016. …