MIT & IBM on Future of Work: AI Adds to ‘Middle Class Squeeze’
MIT and IBM have released the results of an eight-year study casting light on the impact AI and machine learning have already had – never mind the impacts to ...Full Article
‘AIoT’ Seen Ushering in Industry 4.0
The combination of AI and analytics with Internet of Things initiatives is forging an emerging enterprise category dubbed AIoT operations. According to a global survey, most IoT initiatives are ...Full Article
Chips Hit a New Low with ‘Valleytronics’
A potential interim step between conventional semiconductors and quantum devices has emerged, promising improved information processing schemes that outperform current electronic charge- and spin-based chip architectures. The emerging quantum ...Full Article
Spending Spree: Hyperscalers Bought $57B of IT in 2018, $10B+ by Google – But Is Cloud on Horizon?
Hyperscalers are the masters of the IT universe, gravitational centers of increasing pull in the emerging age of data-driven compute and AI. In the high-stakes, winner-take-all world of the ...Full Article
IBM Announces New Watson AI, IBM Cloud Capabilities, Customers
IBM this afternoon issued several updates to its public cloud and Watson AI portfolios, including news that Aegean Airlines, BNP Paribas, ExxonMobil, Elaw Tecnologia SA (a Brazil-based legal management ...Full Article
Hot Demand for Hyperscale Data Centers Hampered by Skills Gap
Soaring demand for hyperscale data centers and colocation services is having a ripple effect within the value chain that builds and integrates those services, a new survey finds. As ...Full Article
Free GPUs? Startup Hopes Free Is Right Price for GPU Cloud Service
GPUs are famously expensive – high end Nvidia Teslas can be priced well above $10,000. Now a New York startup, Paperspace, has announced a free cloud GPU service for ...Full Article
AI Aimed at Bridging Infrastructure Maintenance Gap
Crumbling infrastructure is getting a closer look with a new deep learning tool billed as providing live, 3D views of bridges and tunnels along with automatic alerts that would ...Full Article
John Deere Uses Machine Learning to Help Fewer Farmers Do More with Less
Farming and advanced AI may seem antithetical, but they’re not. Ask John Deere. The venerable farm equipment company has not only long embraced advanced technologies, the company for years ...Full Article
IBM’s Post-Moore Vision: Bits Plus Neurons Plus Qubits
Dario Gil, IBM’s relatively new director of research, painted a intriguing portrait of the future of computing along with a rough idea of how IBM thinks we’ll get there ...Full Article