How will the future city look like? It’s not that hard to give an accurate answer to that question if you are familiar with the latest research in the field of urban digitalisation. Yet it’s still not easy to pinpoint every aspect contributing to the successful digital transformation.
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Daimler and Infosys partner to drive automotive sector transformation
Daimler AG and Infosys, have announced a long-term strategic partnership for a technology-driven IT infrastructure transformation.
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In Ridley Scott’s 2013 movie, ‘The Councillor’, a philosophical Brad Pitt tells a stressed Michael Fassbender that, “you don’t know someone until you know what they want.” Although clearly never intended to be used as a business quote, it does offer a polarising reminder of the importance of understanding what’s important to your customers if you really want to know them, says James Frampton, SVP and GM, EMEA, SugarCRM.
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The British Government needs to better coordinate its Artificial Intelligence (AI) policy and the use of data and technology by national and local government.
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As businesses move to hybrid remote and in-person workplaces while complying with evolving public health mandates, they must manage a dynamic enterprise environment with more complex safety and security challenges.
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In the early two-thousands, I can vividly remember walking into a local electronics store and catching a glimpse of a high definition television for the first time, says Craig Charlton, CEO of SugarCRM. The quality of the visuals took television to a new level and made it feel like a truly immersive experience.
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HeadSpin, a digital experience artificial intelligence (AI) platform, has been recognised as a horizontal solution provider for Google Cloud’s recently unveiled initiative to deliver partner applications at the edge.
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Samsung Electronics announced a new plan to collaborate with IBM to develop edge computing, 5G, and hybrid cloud solutions to help businesses across all industries modernise their operations and realise the promise of Industry 4.0.
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Nuance Communications, Inc. announced that the Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) has deployed its voice biometrics technology and has claimed to create the banking industry’s first biometrics solution for video calls.
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Combining its core competencies in robotics, artificial intelligence and autonomous vehicles with a deep understanding of customer needs, LG Electronics announced that it is developing an autonomous robot that will use ultraviolet (UV-C) light to disinfect high-touch, high-traffic areas. LG Business Solutions USA plans to offer the UV robot to U.S. hospitality, education, corporate, retail, restaurant, and transportation customers in early 2021.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is defined as ‘the theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence’. Machine learning (ML) is a sub-field within AI.
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Remark Holdings, Inc., a diversified global technology company with artificial intelligence (“AI”) solutions and digital media properties, announced that Remark’s KanKan AI business successfully released its edge computing systems, the S and T Series Smart Boxes, AI-based edge computing boxes equipped with NVIDIA’s new generation of high-performance edge computing modules, with a smaller size and lower power requirements.
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Communicating with colleagues and partners rarely happens over a boardroom table nowadays. With the current health landscape accelerating and necessitating that most employees work from home. Connecting with each other virtually has become critical to effective communication.
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Amid the disruption of 2020, new eCommerce trends have emerged that are set to transform the industry. Here, Mark Bennigsen, service development director at Columbus UK, examines five customer demands that businesses with eCommerce operations must satisfy in 2021 and the technology needed to address them.
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Rockwell Automation, Inc. has agreed to acquire Fiix Inc., a privately-held, artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled computerised maintenance management system (CMMS) company. Fiix, founded in 2008, is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
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The Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), the research-based, graduate-level Artificial Intelligence (AI) University, has appointed the prestigious academic professor of AI, Dr. Eric Xing as CEO. Professor and doctor Xing will lead MBZUAI as the first set of graduate students set to begin their studies in January 2021.
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Chengdu, capital city of Southwest China’s Sichuan province, is working to develop a national pilot zone for advancing next-generation artificial intelligence.
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As e-commerce volumes soar and labour shortages continue in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, more enterprises are seeking automated robotics solutions to meet client demand and increase efficiency. Mech-Mind Robotics‘ intelligent industrial robots address key challenges facing industry players today with next-gen solutions that are accurate, precise, and cost-effective.
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Gyrfalcon Technology (GTI) announced AI-X™, a new full-stack solution for AI development ideal for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Popular applications for AI-X include edge-AI vision devices, consumer electronics, AI-camera sensors and automotive.
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IDnow, a provider of identity verification as a service solutions, announces the artificial intelligence (AI) identity verification product AutoIdent Substantial .
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Transforma Insights’ examination of real-world artificial intelligence (AI) deployments shows that most today are focused on mundane applications delivering cost savings, rather than being truly transformational. However, rapid pay-back and high levels of automation bode well for more widespread adoption in innovative fields. Matt Hatton, co-founder of Transforma Insights reports.
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OneConnect Financial Technology Co., Ltd ., an associate of the Ping An Group, and China Merchants Group recently launched the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Port Logistics and Trade Facilitation Blockchain Platform Project for the ports Shekou and Shunde.
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The City of London usually welcomes around 550,000 workers daily. Today that number is closer to 15,000. Why? Because the majority of City workers have to commute by public transportation train, tube or bus to get to work. In the past, says Bart Schouw, chief evangelist at Software AG, this meant sitting or more likely standing in a crowded, hot space with no air conditioning (and not enough people wearing masks).
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As sure as the sun rises in the east, when money is actively exchanging hands, scammers will shortly get a whiff and show up to take what they can. And so, says Judd Bagley, VP of marketing at Everise, it is in the market for connected devices, where Statista reports that in 2019, new smart phone and smart home product revenues in the US alone combined to reach just under $160 billion (€135.23 billion) – which is more than the GDP of Ukraine.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the power to positively transform society and the environment, and to harness that power to its full potential organisations need to focus on addressing the ethical challenges.
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Stradigi AI, a North American Artificial Intelligence software company, is pleased to announce that its cloud-based Kepler Platform is now offered on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace and optimised to run within Azure.
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In 2017, the World Economic Forum (WEF) released a report which cited ‘Big Tech’ as a greater threat to banks than fintech. Three years later, says Eelco-Jan Boonstra, managing director of EMEA at Mambu, this continues to hold true as we’ve seen technology giants such as Google, Apple and Facebook move deeper into the world of finance.
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