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Eight Trends that Will Define the Digital Assistant Wars in 2018 (Fast Company)

The Smart Display Wars Get Real - Amazon got a head start this year in moving Alexa from speakers to screens, first with the 7-inch Echo Show smart display, and then with the dimin... More

CES 2018: Wipro Touts Voice Recognition, IoT, AI; Adobe’s Bullish on AR, VR (SCN)

LAS VEGAS – Wipro focused on three key areas at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show (CES): the automotive sector, media and the Internet of Things (IoT) including artificial intel... More

Can Blockchain Supercharge the Gig Economy? (Dataconomy)

Countless words have been written in recent years about the rise of the ‘gig economy’. As the natural evolution of the freelance model, the gig economy is based on short-term a... More

6 Big Predictions for the Smart Home/Security Space in 2018 (Forbes)

#6: Machine learning and artificial intelligence starts to really pay off in the home (and enterprise) security space: Tired of all those false alerts on your “smart” doorbell ... More

Digimarc Recognized as Technology Leader (SCN)

Digimarc has been recognized for driving innovative solutions into the retail sector. Digimarc is named by ABI Research as a Smart Retail Hot Tech Innovator for 2017. The company w... More

Reinventing the Physical Experience with Social Pattern Recognition (GeoMarketing)

The explosion of mobile technology has led us on a collision course, merging the physical and digital worlds as smartphones have become ‘intelligent’ enough to recognize visual... More

Amazon’s Latest Echos Show the Smart Home Space Hitting its Stride (TechCrunch)

Amazon’s Echo lineup got a refresh earlier this year that included a brand new version of its basic Echo, well as an Echo Plus with integrated smart home hub, and the stalwart Ec... More

10 Artificial Intelligence-Driven Technology Trends for 2018 (CMS Wire)

2. AI Tackles Big Data - Wilson Raj, global director of customer intelligence for SAS, also sees AI playing a major role in the coming year, necessitated by the growth of data size... More

Listen Up, Retailers: Don’t Ignore Voice Shopping (Bloomberg Gadfly)

With another Black Friday and Cyber Monday in the books, Amazon.com Inc. has issued a self-congratulatory press release about how it fared during the shopping frenzy. As is typical... More

How Far Can Voice Recognition Go? 7 Marketing Implications (Forbes)

Voice recognition tech comes in many varieties, and despite being less than a decade old (in its modern form), we’ve already started to get used to it as an essential technologic... More

The Convergence of AI and Blockchain: What’s the Deal? (HackerNoon)

It is undeniable that AI and blockchain are two of the major technologies that are catalyzing the pace of innovation and introducing radical shifts in every industry. Each technolo... More

Through the Fog Smartly: Unleashing the Power of IoT (DXC Technology Blog)

It took a few years, but most enterprise professionals these days now have a firm understanding of cloud computing, how it works, and what it can do for an organization or individu... More

The Future of Retail is Invisible (Capgemini Blog)

“Conversational commerce” was first identified by Chris Messina in 2015; this concept outlined a future for retail based on messaging and voice interactions via digital platfor... More

AI, Other New Technologies Make ‘Smart Cities’ Even Smarter (Forbes)

Linda Currey Post, Oracle: As people increasingly migrate to cities in search of jobs, services, and other urban benefits, local governments are turning to emerging technologies to... More

Capgemini, Dassault Systèmes Partner to Bring Integrated Home Planning Solutions (SCN)

Capgemini and Dassault Systèmes today announced a technology and services partnership to deliver new cross-channel design solutions to the consumer goods and retail industry. With... More

The Way Online Shopping Disrupted Retail, Blockchain is About to Do to Freight, Logistics (HuffPost)

This technology, and really the concept as a whole, is the epitomized opposite of how the world of big business operates. Nationwide and global companies, all the way down to small... More

AI Could Save Television Advertising with Advanced Personalization (VentureBeat)

Artificial intelligence is changing almost every aspect of modern life, and the television advertising industry is no exception. Thanks to more advanced methods of data collection,... More

IBM Expands Watson Data Platform to Help Unleash AI for Professionals (SCN)

IBM today announced new offerings to its Watson Data Platform, including data cataloging and data refining, which is designed to make it easier for developers and data scientists t... More

Can Artificial Intelligence Beat Musicians at Their Craft? (TNW)

Should musicians, whose job relies on the unpredictable and mysterious workings of human imagination, heed the warnings about artificial intelligence driving humans into unemployme... More

Is Augmented Reality the Next Killer Smartphone App? (Morgan Stanley Blog)

When mobile game Pokémon GO launched in July 2016, it quickly became one of the most successful apps of all time, with more than 500 million downloads in the two months after its ... More

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