GDPR and its implications on Data Management and Outsourcing
With increasing emphasis on data security in the existing climate of data breaches and hacking, regulatory bodies are taking an increasingly demanding view on enterprise data security. The Global Data...
View ArticleHow Richard Thaler’s Nudge Theory Can Be Used in Analytics
The 49th Sveriges Riksbank prize in economic sciences – commonly referred to as the Nobel Prize for economics – has been awarded to Richard H Thaler for his contributions to behavioural economics. He...
View ArticleWith AI powered Cloud Platform And Apps, Oracle Is Boosting Its Rich...
Hillsboro, United States- August 29, 2009: This image shows a red airplane advertising Oracle in mid air, performing aerobatic maneuvers at the Oregon International airshow. It wasn’t long back when...
View ArticleHow Data-Driven Instamojo Is Solving Issues Around Digital Payments
Bangalore-based Instamojo Technologies has been working towards solving the issues around digital payments in India with their on-demand payments and e-commerce platform since 2012. Started by Sampad...
View ArticleOla Raises $1.1B In Funding; To Make Investments In AI and ML
Ola, Uber’s biggest rival in India, has raised $1.1 billion from China’s Tencent Holdings Ltd and existing investor SoftBank Group Corp. of Japan. The Bengaluru-based ride-hailing company, which has...
View ArticleIs Customer Churn The Most Important Metric To Track For Retailers?
Combatting customer churn or attrition for brick-and-mortar stores has become increasingly important especially in an age where big-box stores and retailers are ambushed by the likes of Amazon...
View ArticleAlien: Covenant Follow-Up To Focus On Artificial Intelligence
ALIEN: COVENANT Of all the big blockbusters coming out this year Alien: Covenant probably will be the most awaited. The ‘monsters-in-space’ horror movie, directed by Ridley Scott is about the creation...
View ArticleAWS And Microsoft Team Up On Deep Learning With Gluon, A Simplified ML Model...
Such is the power of machine learning that two arch rivals, Amazon’s AWS and Microsoft have together announced Gluon, a new open source deep learning interface, which allows developers to more easily...
View ArticleUsing Social Media For Predictive Data Analytics Is In Its Infancy
Social media is increasingly successful in putting across social phenomena which previously was studied only through traditional surveying techniques such as telephone or face to face interviews....
View ArticleCan Machines Really Think? Looking Into AI And The Role Of Human Psychology
“A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.”– Alan Perlis, Epigrams in Programming (1982) ‘Technology’ is defined as ‘the use of scientific knowledge for practical...
View ArticleWhat Does Alibaba’s Recent $15 billion Investment in Cloud Computing Mean?
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has unveiled plans to invest $15 billion in R&D projects. The money was announced at the company’s annual cloud computing conference in Hangzhou. The initiative is...
View ArticleIIT Madras To Develop Algorithms That Will ‘Learn Like Humans’
After Google’s AlphaGo, deep reinforcement learning is being further developed in an initiative by IIT Madras where researchers will construct their own algorithms for complex tasks, said a report...
View ArticleInfographic: Google’s AI Start-up Acquisition Spree
Over 200 private AI-based companies have been acquired since 2012 and Google leads the acquisitions with 12, way ahead of Apple, Facebook and Microsoft, its stiffest competitors. Google’s parent...
View ArticleHere’s why AWS & Microsoft open-sourced their jointly launched Deep Learning...
Microsoft and AWS are no strange bedfellows. The Seattle-based tech giants had earlier pooled their resources together to make Cortana and Alexa smarter. In August, Jeff Bezos led Amazon and Redmond...
View Article5 novel concepts around AI explored in Blade Runner 2049 and its parallels in...
Artificial intelligence-themed movies aren’t new. What’s ground-breaking is how real we are getting in depicting an AI-ruled world that would soon become a reality. Canadian director Denis...
View ArticleIntel and Facebook To Develop AI-Chip As A Counter To Nvidia
Chip giant Intel announced that it was working with Facebook, along with others, to introduce a chip designed for artificial intelligence. The social media giant is “starting to take a look at (the...
View ArticleGoogle’s AI Creates Better Machine-Learning Code Than Its Makers
Google’s AutoML system, which was introduced back in May, has recently produced machine-learning codes with higher efficiency than those made by the researchers themselves. Google developed AutoML to...
View ArticleData Science to Help Poverty Stricken Farmers
After the relentless efforts involving stamina, sweat and grit, a farmer fails to save adequate money to feed his children. The heart of every patriot aches to see the farmers of India being struck by...
View ArticleHow Big Data Analytics Is Changing The Media And Entertainment Landscape
With the increasing focus on digitisation and data-driven marketing, there has been a revolution in the media industry on how it uses data and analytics. The future of the industry is dependent on the...
View ArticleData Today, Shaping the History for Future Generations
At this point in time if I want to know the name of my fourteenth forefather I’ll have to either ask my grandparents or go to the holy city of Kashi and search the books maintained by the pundits....
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