Into Focus News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Kick-start your week with 20 great edits.

DJ PRESSESPIEGEL/Zinsen, Konjunktur, Kapitalmärkte, Branchen Die wirtschaftsrelevanten Themen aus den Medien, zusammengestellt von Dow Jones Newswires. CORONA-PANDEMIE - Im Kampf gegen die Pandemie

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. You've likely already been directly exposed to some of this technology, for example when you browse through the new show offerings in your online streaming service or when you get a weather forecast. While AI and machin...

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 family. The majority of enterprise search vendors seem inordinately proud of their personalization eng...

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 AWS's 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 at some of the highlights and assess what they mean for the market and Amazon's strategy, which is s...