New Fed Initiative Wants to Make America Great in A.I. Nick Kolakowski, February 12, 2019 3 min read President Donald Trump’s new “American A.I. Initiative” is designed to place the United States at the forefront...
Automation Will Take Jobs, But Tech a Low-Risk Sector: Study Nate Swanner, January 24, 2019 2 min read According to a new study, about five percent of those who read this article are at risk of losing their jobs to...
CES 2019 Makes Big Promises About Future of Smart Devices Nick Kolakowski, January 8, 2019 4 min read The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is famous for its fads. After Apple launched the iPhone, for example, it seemed...
2019 May Not Be a Great Year for Amazon Alexa Nate Swanner, December 31, 2018 2 min read Even as Amazon works to have its Alexa digital assistant running on every imaginable piece of hardware, a new study...
‘Algorithm’ May be Tech’s Newest Dirty Word (and Humans are to Blame) Nate Swanner, December 13, 2018 3 min read An algorithm is meant to perform routine, code-based tasks without human interaction. In theory, this automation is...
How Older Workers May Benefit Big from Automation Nick Kolakowski, December 11, 2018 5 min read Another day, another story about how automation may wipe out yet another segment of jobs: this time, it’s Amazon Go...
Amazon Opens Machine Learning Coursework to All Developers Nick Kolakowski, November 27, 2018 3 min read Amazon has opened up its machine-learning coursework to any developer who wants to explore the...
Amazon Rolls Out Alexa Mobile Accessory Kit for Developers Nick Kolakowski, November 26, 2018 2 min read Siri is available on iOS devices such as the iPhone, and the voice-activated Google Assistant is also supported on...
Amazon HQ2 Will Pay Dearly for Machine Learning and A.I. Talent Nick Kolakowski, November 15, 2018 5 min read Amazon plans on hiring 25,000 workers for each of its new mega-offices (collectively dubbed “HQ2”) in New York City...
Samsung Opening Bixby Digital Assistant to Third-Party Developers Nick Kolakowski, November 11, 2018 3 min read Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, and… Bixby? For tech pros interested in the rise of voice-activated digital...