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IBC 2017: Vubiquity, Nokia Team on Service Offering; My Eye Media Has New M&E Testing Partner (SCN)

Premium content services and media tech solutions firm Vubiquity used IBC 2017 to announce a new partnership with Nokia, one that has the companies debuting a new Time-Shift as a S... More

Facebook is Testing Features to Help You Make New Friends (TechCrunch)

Facebook wants to show you more of what you have in common with potential new friends and make sure you don’t forget about your old ones either. The company is rolling out a f... More

IBM Joins Automakers, Banks in Blockchain Wallet Project Expansion (CoinDesk)

IBM has joined car manufacturer ZF Friedrichshafen and investment bank UBS in an effort to build and develop a blockchain-based mobile payment system for the automotive industry. ... More

IBM Ponies Up $240 Million for Watson AI Lab at MIT (Fortune)

IBM said on Thursday it will spend $240 million over the next decade to fund a new artificial intelligence research lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The resulti... More

Oracle, Mitsubishi Electric Collaborate to Develop IoT Platform for Smart Manufacturing (SCN)

Oracle today announced its collaboration with Mitsubishi Electric Corporation to develop an Internet of Things (IoT) platform for smart manufacturing. With Oracle Cloud, Mitsubishi... More

Why Hollywood Could Make Billions from Self-Driving Cars (THR)

For the past 18 months, a river of money has been flowing between Detroit and Silicon Valley. In March 2016, GM spent $1 billion to acquire self-driving car startup Cruise Automati... More

The Key to AI’s Future: Veritone’s Quest for Collaboration (Forbes)

Veritone caught my attention as one such business, grasping the idea that many AI brains are better than one when used together to solve business problems. Their belief is that the... More

The Next Media Revolution Will Come from Driverless Cars (Wired UK)

Driverless cars are here to stay, whether they are Elon Musk’s tenuously-funded Teslas or mainstream manufacturers’ more staid visions. As the world’s road safety experts and... More

PwC Launches Scale-Up Programs to Support Start-Ups (Accountancy Age)

PwC have launched a new series of SCALE programmes aimed at fostering innovation and linking fast-growth start-ups with large organisations. PwC SCALE will launch six new progra... More

Box Taps Google’s AI for Image Recognition (VentureBeat)

Box is bringing more artificial intelligence to its content services offering for enterprises, the company announced today. Using the Google Cloud Vision API, customers will be abl... More

Top Slack App Tips, Tricks and Hacks for Power Users (Computerworld)

Slack is a powerful collaboration tool in its own right, which means it also has a lot of hidden ways of doing things. Here’s how to get the most from it from users who know it b... More

If an AI Creates a Work of Art, Who Owns the Rights to It? (Quartz)

Artificial intelligence is already capable of creating a staggering array of content. It can paint, write music, and put together a musical. It can write movies, angsty poems, and ... More

How Music Will Help the Smart Speaker Soar – and Vice Versa (Medium)

In fewer than three years, the smart speaker has gone from head-scratcher to head-turner. Along the way, this device has brought artificial intelligence and voice commands into mil... More

IBM Plays with the AI Giants with New, Scalable, Distributed Deep Learning Software (Forbes)

Anyone who has been paying attention knows that deep learning has really taken off in the last several years. It’s powering hundreds of applications, in consumer as well as busin... More

Adobe: Cloud-Focused R&D Key to Our Success Story in India (Economic Times)

Last year has been phenomenal for Adobe in the country and one of the key differentiators contributing to the success is the role played by Adobe India's R&D division that is creat... More

Adobe Brings AI to Adobe Target for Brands to Amplify Personalization (MarTech Advisor)

Adobe has announced that it will open up its data science and algorithmic optimization capabilities in Adobe Target, the personalization engine of Adobe Marketing Cloud. Brands wil... More

Demystifying Digital Identity in the Age of Cloud Authentication (Okta Blog)

Identity may be a difficult-to-define concept that has stumped philosophers for centuries. But when it comes to security offline or online, the topic boils down to evidence and pro... More

Your Smart Home of the Future Will be Controlled by Voice (ARC)

A utopian future where every house has a flying car and a domesticated robot is still a dream. Our Jetsonian future may still be in the works, but the building blocks of the intell... More

OpenText Launches New AI Platform to Enable Business Insight (SCN)

OpenText announced the availability of OpenText Magellan, the company’s new Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform. OpenText Magellan is a flexible AI and analytics platform that ... More

IBM Chief Digital Officer: Building Strategy Around the Rock Stars of the Future (CBR)

A self-confessed “change agent transformation junkie”, Bob Lord, Chief Digital Officer at IBM, had a clear strategy, not unlike many other CDOs or CIOs, to lead change at IBM. ... More

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