Emerging Technologies Fighting COVID-19

The coronavirus health crisis has resulted in many changes. Changes in our we work, how we educate our children and how the healthcare system learns simultaneously with treating patients. Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) have adapted labs and lessons learned from treating other diseases to help check the virus and save lives. This…

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codemantra and Access Innovations, Inc., Announce Strategic Partnership

Access Innovations, Inc., provider of Data Harmony software solutions, is proud to announce an exciting new collaboration with codemantra, an expert in increasing the value of digital documents through their software platforms and content services. Access Innovations and codemantra seek to foster a partnership in which they can provide their clients with necessary tools to…

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Google is Monitoring Your Social Distancing

Since all news seems to be COVID-19 focused, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that Google is on the job. This interesting news came to us from CNBC in their article, “New Google site shows where people in a community are taking social distancing seriously — and where they’re not.” Google launched a new website that uses…

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Analytics to the Rescue

Predictive analytics is the use of data, statistical algorithms, and machine learning techniques to identify the likelihood of future outcomes based on historical data. The goal is to go beyond knowing what has happened to providing a best assessment of what will happen in the future. Business 2 Community brought this topic to our attention in their…

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The Role of Food

Food is the center of seemingly everything we do. It’s a cultural nexus—when we celebrate religious things, food is at the middle of it. When we talk about the greatest environmental damage that we do, food is at the center of it. When we talk about our health, food is the most important thing. Even…

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Cloud Computing Has New Partners

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are two technology terms and concepts that have altered the computer science and data analysis arenas. DATAVERSITY brought this interesting information to us in their article, “Artificial Intelligence as a Game-Changer in the Public Cloud.” These technological approaches are at work in the business and at home. Cortana, Siri, Google’s…

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New Product Marries Libraries and Machine Learning

San Francisco-based Fast.ai recently released version 1.0 of “fastai,” a set of code libraries designed to radically simplify writing machine learning tasks. ZD Net brought this interesting topic to our attention in their article, “Fast.ai’s software could radically democratize AI.” Radical and library are not two words commonly seen together, but this new product, which is built…

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Poor Pluto

Pluto is a celestial object with an eccentric orbit. A minor planet classification (MPC) is its identification now, but for 76 years, Pluto was considered a full-fledged planet. A group of astronomers are working to reclassify it as a planet again, while yet another equally influential cabal of astronomers are fighting to keep it status quo. Business Standard brought…

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Third-Party Developers Facing New Challenges

After the news that the data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica had improperly used tens of millions of users’ data for ad targeting, Facebook was made clear that it would make significant changes to its developer platform. This resulted in a pause on the app review process, as well as a number of API endpoints. Venture Beat…

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Data-Driven Visionaries

The Leader’s Data Manifesto was originally unveiled at the Enterprise Data World 2017 Conference. The manifesto counts hundreds of signatories at this point, expressing their support of its vision for data and information to be truly valued and managed as a business asset. DATAVERSITY brought this topic to our attention in their article, “The Leader’s Data Manifesto: Time to Focus…

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