Source – dataconomy.com Data innovation and technology are a much discussed but rarely successfully implemented in large financial services firms.  Despite $480 Billion spent globally in 2016 on financial services IT, the pace of financial innovation from incumbents lags behind FinTech which received a comparatively puny $17 Billion in investment in 2016.  What lies behind the discrepancy? We provide a Read More

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Source – treehugger.com Apes’ abilities appear to be entirely misunderstood because research has failed to measure them fairly and accurately, according to a new report. I’ve always marveled at how shortsighted humans can be, especially when it comes to other species. We’ve got such a superiority complex that we fail to fully appreciate the remarkableness of Read More

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Source – datacenterdynamics.com IT service security has many layers. The IT security layer; firewalls, intrusion detection and access controls. The infrastructure layer; power, network, server health and cooling. And, most important, the people layer. The right people with the right processes, tools and measures to ensure everything else is in working order. Artificial intelligence (AI) will Read More

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Source – irishtimes.com With the recent explosion in artificial intelligence, there has been the understandable concern about its potential impact on human work. But economic theory suggests that AI will substantially raise the value of human judgment. People who display good judgment will become more valuable, not less. Recent advances in AI are expected to lower the Read More

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Source – livemint.com British science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke famously wrote in 1962 that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” In 2017, Artificial Intelligence (AI) seems to be that form of “advanced technology” that is seemingly putting magic into shade. But what is this magical form of technology? Simply put, AI is based Read More

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Source – securityintelligence.com The chief information security officer (CISO) faces threats such as compromised users, negligent employees and malicious insiders. For this reason, one of the most important tools in the CISO’s arsenal is user behavior analytics (UBA), a solution that scans data from a security information and event management (SIEM) system, correlates it by user and Read More

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Source – economictimes.indiatimes.com Engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have designed an autonomous robot that can keep pace with foot traffic while observing the general social codes that pedestrians follow to avoid oncoming obstacles while keeping up a steady walking pace. In drive tests, the robot, which resembles a knee-high kiosk on wheels, successfully avoided Read More

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Source – menafn.com Technavio’s latest market research report on the deep learning market in the US provides an analysis of the most important trends expected to impact the market outlook from 2017-2021. Technavio defines an emerging trend as a factor that has the potential to significantly impact the market and contribute to its growth or decline. Read More

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Source – religionandpolitics.org The concept of artificial intelligence has been fuel for science fiction since at least 1920, when the Czech writer Karel Čapek published R.U.R., his play about a mutiny led by a throng of robots. Speculation about the future of intelligent machines has run rampant in the intervening decades but recently has taken a more Read More

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Source – eos.org The vast and rapidly increasing supply of new data in the Earth sciences creates many opportunities to gain scientific insights and to answer important questions. Data analysis has always been an integral component of research and education in the Earth sciences, but mainstream Earth scientists may not yet be fully aware of many Read More

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Source – itnewsafrica.com Analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and big data – these conversations are no longer complete without the term “deep learning”, a powerful phrase that is increasingly becoming part of the business vocabulary as it recognises life-changing advantages. Brendan Marr, best-selling author and keynote speaker on business, technology and big data, says it is with Read More

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Source – techcrunch.com Meltwater, a company originally founded in Norway that provides data to more than 25,000 businesses to track where and how they are mentioned in media and other public platforms, has acquired a startup to double down on how it uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to do its job. The company has acquired Algo, a Read More

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Source – sea-globe.com Human financial advisors may keep their jobs for a while, but they would be well advised to start considering a new career. On 7 June, Singapore’s regulatory body, the Monetary Authority of Singapore, released a consultation paper on how it planned to “facilitate the provision of robo-advisory services” in the city-state. By cutting out Read More

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Source – telegraph.co.uk Thie third and final part of a Telegraph series reporting from Toronto’s booming Artificial Intelligence sector where new technologies are being pioneered that will permanently change all of our lives In 1929, the economist John Maynard Keynes made a prediction. Over the course of the next century, he wrote, standards of living in Read More

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Source – formtek.com This past July, the press headlined a comment by Elon Musk where he said that Mark Zuckerberg’s understanding of AI was ‘limited’.  After Musk’s warning earlier in the year that AI potentially is potentially the most dangerous threat to civilization, needs to be used with care, and should even be regulated, Zuckerberg commented that he disagreed Read More

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Source – jaxenter.com Enterprises are increasingly turning to a microservice architecture for new applications to achieve greater agility and scalability, and the software industry is supporting them with development frameworks and tools for creating microservices. Yet, these don’t operate in a vacuum and often require an effective approach to integration. The challenge is that building integration Read More

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Source – technode.com Didi, the Chinese ride-hailing giant, is looking for ways build up its big data and artificial intelligence capabilities. While widening its global presence with its partners, the company is also deepening its big data technology and artificial intelligence capabilities to become a global leader in smart transportation and automotive technology. The Beijing-based company raised Read More

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Source – networkworld.com There’s no doubt that digital transformation (DX) is revolutionizing the way we do business, and cloud computing serves as a key cog in the DX machine. Cloud’s elasticity can indeed help digital businesses communicate more rapidly and increase innovation. But to extract full value from the cloud, companies must make sure that they Read More

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