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PHOTO: Alexander Popov | unsplash First things first: by “artificial intelligence,” I am not referring to our mechanical sentient overlords, but to a growing field of technology tools used to create predictions, improve our understanding of vast amounts of data and help us optimize solutions to problems. AI is not some far-off promise that will happen in the future. Youve likely already been directly exposed to some of this technology, for example when you browse through the new show...

PHOTO: Serge Aubert We all like receiving a personalized service, whether it is being recognized by the Maitre d’ at our favorite restaurant or having a range of books offered to us by Amazon when we are looking for a specific title. Sometimes we may wonder just how these personalization algorithms work. I was just looking for a book on Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris and among the books I was offered was one on the history of Britain from 1945-1951 and one on the history of the Habsburg fa...

AWS re:Invent 2020, held as a virtual event this year for more than 500,000 attendees, was once again a blitzkrieg of major announcements that collectively have the potential to reshape the course of enterprise technology over the next few years. Among the big news in several areas of AWSs cloud portfolio, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning took top billing, with the company actively courting new, more business-oriented audience for its solutions this year. Below, I take a look a...

Again, its very unclear how that plays. there are many things likely to bring the president into focus internationally as well as at home. perhaps he will simply get distracted. >> the president is prepared to declare a national emergency to build a wall for what he claims the national crisis, an option that would be thrown into the courts, even though it will not get him the wall he wants. do you see this as an out for the president to say, hey, i tried? >> again, i think hes speaking very much...