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Report: Blockchain Business to Grow to $2 Trillion By 2030 (HITS)

Blockchain is “still nascent” technology, but the business value it generates is expected to grow from $2.5 billion in 2017 to a whopping $2 trillion in 2030, research and anal... More

How to Make the Most of a Tech Bootcamp (CIO)

Bootcamps have emerged as a popular way to quickly gain marketable skills that organizations are looking for. And the ongoing IT talent shortage in certain disciplines has seen a r... More

10 Reasons to Ignore Computer Science Degrees (CIO)

It’s not that the field hasn’t delivered. There are petabytes of LaTeX files out there filled with brilliant ideas like new programming languages, clever search algorithms, mac... More

Six Challenges to Taking a Machine Learning Project to Production (IM)

Business leaders are increasingly employing data-driven strategies for success. The problem is that most data still fails to meet basic quality standards - in fact, only three perc... More

Collaborative Intelligence: Humans and AI are Joining Forces (HBR)

Artificial intelligence is becoming good at many “human” jobs—diagnosing disease, translating languages, providing customer service—and it’s improving fast. This is raisi... More

Google Launches Standalone Business Drive (IT Pro Portal)

Up until now businesses that wanted to use Google Drive had to purchase a full G Suite subscription even if they didn't intend to use the rest of Google's productivity tools. Howev... More

Big Tech is Throwing Money, Talent at Home Robots (Bloomberg)

Behind the scenes, big tech companies are funding secret projects to develop robots. Amazon.com Inc. has been working on a robot version of its Echo voice-activated speaker for a w... More

Where are the Women Software Engineers? Four Strategies to Avert the Talent Shortage Through Gender Diversity (Digitally Cognizant Blog)

Consider that while every business today relies heavily on software to succeed, finding enough software engineers poses an existential challenge. According to the U.S. Bureau of La... More

Kubernetes: A Rising Platform for Delivering Digital at Scale (Digitally Cognizant Blog)

The emergence of Kubernetes has cleared many of the doubts about overcoming the operational and technological challenges of managing containers. As enterprises pursue a multi-cloud... More

The Top Seven Blockchain Careers You Should Know About (Dataconomy)

Blockchain is a growing industry and people skilled in it are in high demand.The UpWork report states that jobs related to blockchain technology saw a growth of 2000% for three con... More

Adobe to Launch Photoshop for iPad in Strategy Shift (Bloomberg)

Adobe, the maker of popular digital design programs for creatives, is planning to launch the full version of its Photoshop app for Apple's iPad as part of a new strategy to make it... More

IBM is Using AI to Predict How Employees Will Perform (TNW)

BM may have the most forward-thinking employee performance review system around. Rather than simply judge employees on what they’ve already done, the company uses its Watson AI t... More

Box Opens Up About the Company’s Approach to Innovation (TechCrunch)

Most of us never really stop to think about how the software and services we use on a daily basis are created. We just know it’s there when we want to access it, and it works mos... More

How CTOs Can Introduce Blockchain to the Enterprise (IA)

Beyond all the marketing and sales hype, blockchain has managed to establish itself as a realistic disrupter in the tech space, particularly for its potential ability to transform ... More

How Salesforce’s Acquisition of ExactTarget Helped Indianapolis’ Tech Community Flourish (VB)

By the time Salesforce acquired ExactTarget, the company was already a big employer in the city. But when a coastal tech giant like Salesforce decided not just to acquire an Indian... More

Microsoft Re-Launching its Blockchain (TechRadar)

Microsoft is looking to re-enter the blockchain game with a new service aiming to help settle payment disputes. The Windows 10 maker has revealed a new service aimed at helping com... More

AI is Making Hardware Sexy Again (Forbes)

AI is not a new concept, nor are the math fundamentals underpinning it. But for AI to “eat software” and become truly useful it needs hardware: processors and chips fast and st... More

Salesforce Develops Natural Language Processing Model that Performs 10 Tasks at Once (VentureBeat)

Modern techniques in natural language processing (NLP), a branch of artificial intelligence that helps computers interpret human language, are capable of surprising nuance. One exa... More

AI Could Get 100 Times More Energy-Efficient with IBM’s New Artificial Synapses (MIT)

Neural networks are the crown jewel of the AI boom. They gorge on data and do things like transcribe speech or describe images with near-perfect accuracy. IBM has now shown that bu... More

How AI Augmentation Will Fuel Net Job Growth by 2020 (VentureBeat)

The year 2020 will be a pivotal one in AI-related employment dynamics — Gartner predicts 2.3 million jobs will be created and 1.8 jobs will be eliminated. The main contributor to... More

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