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While many leaders believe the integrated teams will come to pass, only 50% believe automation will actually free up any time for employees.

CEO sends message to employees of the oldest and largest conglomerate in PH By: Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala – @inquirerdotnet, Jan 28, 2018 I write this note as part of a new tradition that I wanted to implement this year. So many events happen in any given year and there is never much time…

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Developers who have not gotten in on the data science action are getting onramps to entry to machine learning courtesy of the usual suspects from the cloud computing world. The question is whether these new machine learning IDEs are empowering those with just enough knowledge to literally become dangerous. By Tony Baer (Ovum) for Big…

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by Nick Bunker, Jan 16, 2018 A well-known “stylized fact” in economics holds that the distribution of income between labor (wages and salaries) and capital (stocks and bonds) is fairly stable over time. Yet quite a number of researchers find that the share of income going to labor has been on the decline over the…

Big data, Internet of things and AI could reinvent physical retail stores. So what’s the hold-up? By Larry Dignan for Between the Lines | Jan 16, 2018 — The future of retail is being pitched by technology vendors looking to overlay artificial intelligence, big data and the Internet of things to brick-and-mortar outlets.

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by Lauren Thomas, CNBC, Jan 10, 2018 Walmart is expanding its “Scan & Go” technology to an additional 100 locations across the U.S., the retailer announced Tuesday, playing into a growing trend of companies giving consumers the option to shop their stores without interacting with a cashier.

By Rizal Raoul Reyes, Businessmirror, Jan 10, 2018 THE digital age has brought hope to peoples and countries to enable them to pursue greater transparency and better governance. Moreover, the development of the Internet has opened many possibilities to make life easier for people in almost every facet of their lives.

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by Stephen Hawking, 09 Oct 2015 He’s one of the most intelligent people in the world. He’s a movie star. And now he’s one of the participants of the Reddit “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) series, too. Physicist Stephen Hawking this week gave his answers to his AMA session. What did you miss? We’ve summarized the…

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In brief What if you could improve your mental aptitude and performance by directly stimulating specific parts of the brain? That’s what a team of researchers from Boston University wanted to find out, and they developed an experimental procedure that can change how you think.

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by Peter Lacy, 14 Sep 2017 Increased transparency, new customer expectations and emerging technologies are disrupting traditional sources of competitiveness. From mobile to machine learning, big data to blockchain, seemingly there’s no end to what technology can enable or improve.

Agence France-Presse, Sep 5, 2017 STRASBOURG, France — Europe’s top human rights court is set to rule Tuesday whether bosses have the right to spy on employees who use company messaging systems, in a landmark decision for privacy in the work place.

by John McKenna, Aug 22, 2017 From DNA databases to police drones and GPS tracking darts, technology plays a vital role in the fight against crime. In Australia an unlikely new recruit could be added to law enforcers’ arsenal of high-tech tools: the fridge. Refrigerators connected to the Internet of Things (IoT) – smart fridges…

A simple zap from a small chip could be enough to reprogram skin cells to perform other valuable functions, like carrying blood or even helping you think. by Eric Mack, Aug 8, 2017 Researchers demonstrate a process known as tissue nanotransfection (TNT). When it comes to healing, this TNT is the bomb.

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by Nestor Corrales, Inquirer, Aug 2, 2017 President Rodrigo Duterte signed into law on Wednesday the Free Internet Access in Public Places Act (Republic Act 10929).

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by Sanjiv Rai, Jun 28, 2017 The Fourth Industrial Revolution is unfolding at a time when human mobility is increasing and, in many instances, becoming more precarious. Last year, the world saw 250 million international migrants, only 21 million of whom qualified as refugees under the UN Refugee Convention. Within countries, the rate of internal…

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by Joon Ian Wong, Jun 21, 2017 The internet today is driven by smartphones, tablets, and personal computers: devices that deliver information for human consumption. In five years, those devices will be in the minority, outnumbered by machines designed to communicate with one another in “smart” homes, offices, cities, and cars, according to Cisco’s annual…