What will the biggest tech and digital transformation trends be for 2021? In this piece we highlight 10 of the biggest trends that will impact the way we work, live and communicate in the coming year.
How The Human + Machine Workforce Is Being Accelerated By COVID-19
Human + Machine partnerships are becoming even more critical and seeing greater investment and adoption as COVID-19 forces companies to innovate and digitally transform businesses faster to stay profitable and meet customers where they are.
IBM’s New RoboRXN Chemistry Lab Runs on AI, Cloud and Robotics
IBM’s new RoboRXN chemistry lab allows scientists to create new molecules while working remotely using robots, cloud, and AI. The platform accelerates the synthesis process and highlights discovery, which is not only a great boost to the field of chemistry, it’s also an example of innovation and agility we’ll likely see much more of. Most of us think of work as being in an office setting, but the RoboRXN platform reminds us that work can take place in a laboratory, a factory, on a farm, or on a construction site — and technology can play a big role in all those settings.
Informatica Acquires GreenBay Technologies, an AI and Machine Learning Startup
Informatica’s acquisition of GreenBay Technologies is intended to spur the company’s machine learning and AI capabilities.
Why Business Must Strike a Balance with AI and Emotional Intelligence
As we turn to AI to do more tasks for us, the need for emotional intelligence has never been greater. How and why companies must strike the right balance between empathy and technology–especially as it relates to the use of AI.
HPE Turns to Containers With Its Ezmeral Software
At its virtual Discover event this week, HPE announced the launch of its kubernetes-based container software, HPE Ezmeral. This announcement shows HPE’s continued dedication to its goal of everything-as-a-service by 2022 and heats up the container wars with competitors like IBM RedHat and VMWare.
Siemens Continues Combined Efforts of MindSphere and Mendix
Siemens continues efforts for IoT with enhancement and combined efforts of its MindSphere IoT system and Mendix low-code software application. Digital twin, advanced analytics, edge-to-cloud and a growing partner ecosystem also add to its IoT offerings.
Should Emotional Recognition be Banned?
Companies are starting to use emotional recognition technology for recruitment. But we know the results should not be accepted without further research. It simply isn’t fair for us to judge other people for what they’re feeling—especially if, as the science shows, we actually don’t know.
How AI Can Potentially be Used in the Battle Against Pandemics
How AI can potentially be used in the battle against pandemics – exploring the potential use cases of AI for battling coronarivus COVID-19 and beyond.
Microsoft Research AI Ethics Checklist Crafts Principles for Designing AI DevOps Processes
Microsoft Research AI ethics checklist is a set of published principles for designing ethics checklists that can be readily operationalized in AI DevOps processes. We commend Microsoft Research’s recent effort to catalyze consensus within the practitioner community for the purpose of developing clear principles for designing operationalizable AI ethics checklists.