IoT robotics and AI

McKinsey warns that AI will further divide the world economy into winners and losers This article is sponsored by:

The world is moving quietly, but inexorably, toward a world that will not only change the way humans live and work but also divide the world economy according to McKinsey’s latest AI report.

Microsoft soups up Dynamics 365 with AI and HoloLens add-ons This article is sponsored by:

Microsoft soups up its Dynamics 365 business applications with packaged AI for sales, service and marketing, plus HoloLens mixed reality apps

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Nudge, plead or beg? How do you really influence behavior change? This article is sponsored by:

Digital transformation needs leadership and user buy-in. Salesforce's Tony Colon offers some advice on how to pull it off.

World Economic Forum - robots will take jobs, but upskilling will put humans ahead...if we do it properly This article is sponsored by:

A major future of work report from the World Economic Forum puts skills investment top of the corporate and governmental agenda.

Drones and government policy - big urban challenges before take-off This article is sponsored by:

There's a drone revolution waiting to happen, but there are policy and regulatory issues to be addressed.

Fixing the recruiting process mess - Part 3, getting from zero to one This article is sponsored by:

How can technology make recruiting better and the acquisition of more and better-qualified talent a reality? How do we stop the leakage from the recruiting funnel and do so in a way that doesn’t add to the workload of recruiters? Can a better process for recruiting improve candidates’ experiences and those of recruiters?

Where to for ThoughtSpot under new leadership? This article is sponsored by:

A conversation with Sudheesh Nair, recently the President of Nutanix and now the new CEO of analytics systems vendor ThoughtSpot, about what his crystal ball sees coming for the search+AI+analytics company

How Medivis plans to use augmented reality and AI to change medicine This article is sponsored by:

Typically I don't write about how cool augmented reality and AI are. But the experts at Medivis think they can change healthcare with these technologies - and the help of partners like Paperspace.

It’s a mad, mad, mad IoT world - protecting America’s power grid from common household appliances This article is sponsored by:

The Internet of Things is a network comprised of billions of devices that connect to the internet through sensors or Wi-Fi. Mostly invisible and often unsecured, they are a potential goldmine for hackers and evildoers.

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Are we prepared to solve for algorithmic bias? This article is sponsored by:

Solving for algorithmic bias is one of the great challenges in technology. Here are examples and methods for examing the problem at a first principles level.

Weekend musing - is Nike a corporate activist? This article is sponsored by:

There's a hot debate about whether commercial enterprises should take activist social positions. Like so many things, much depends on whether brands think it is good for business or not. Nike is the current poster child for this form of commercialization. Others will surely follow.

Meltwater pivots to let data scientists loose on the world's biggest business dataset This article is sponsored by:

Media intelligence provider Meltwater pivots to a platform strategy with Fairhair.ai, opening its huge dataset of online business content to data scientists

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Enterprise hits and misses - blockchain is a paradox; AI is a customer service automater This article is sponsored by:

This week - Blockchain is officially a paradox, and AI is a riddle for customer service teams to solve. Plus: diginomica gets critiqued, and personalization gets humanized (or does it?). Your whiffs go from rattlesnake bites to a big pile o' Skype.