Since computers were first invented people have been looking for ‘the next big thing.’ Now, as close to half the world owns a phone faster than the earliest supercomputers, it is difficult to keep track of what we should pay attention to. While . . .
Read articleposted 19th February 2019forbes.com
Augmented Reality (AR) is the latest bandwagon to grip the minds of the public. There has been a plethora of AR announcements over the last year – including Mozilla’s Firefox Reality (an AR/VR browser) and Snapchat’s Lense Studio that lets . . .
Read articleposted 28th November 2018Forbes.com
The healthcare industry should be using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to a far greater degree than at present, but progress has been painfully slow. The same factors that make the healthcare system so attractive to AI developers – fragmented or non-existent . . .
Read articleposted 23rd November 2018Forbes.com
Letting people choose their own salary works. With employee engagement in a state of stagnation, and 79% of workers citing ‘lack of appreciation’ as their reason for leaving a job, opening up salaries is a powerful way to show your . . .
Read articleposted 15th November 2018Data breaches are our own fault. A 2016 study by Phishme found that 91% of all cyber attacks start with a phishing email, and since then these schemes have only gotten more sophisticated in their methods. With recent cybersecurity initiatives . . .
Read articleposted 12th November 2018‘Companies see how competitive the market is becoming, with barriers to entry collapsing in traditional industries. They know it is all driven by new technology, new business models and new competitors they didn’t see coming.’
Read articleposted 12th November 2018Imitation, while less altruistic than other goals of AI (such as helping with menial tasks or improving on human intelligence), has led to extremely convincing chatbots that would put the Turing test to shame. AI mimicking humans could be useful . . .
Read articleposted 12th November 2018Back in 2013, Buffer made their company salaries public, and in doing so declared war on the ‘need to know’ attitude to doing business. This generation of consumers is demanding more transparency from the companies they patronize, and in some . . .
Read articleposted 12th November 2018Fake news was the Collin’s word of the year for 2017 with good reason. In a year where politics-as-usual was torn apart at the seams, high-profile scandals rocked our faith in humanity and the extreme effects of global warming made themselves painfully known, it is becoming harder than . . .
Read articleposted 4th October 2018Cyborgs are among us already. Not the human-weapon hybrids that exist in children’s imaginations and terrible horror movies, but a far more efficient variety that is mostly indistinguishable from non-modified humans. Advances in medical technology can help mitigate conditions that were . . .
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