Lowe’s recently announced layoffs as a part of an effort to “overhaul its staffing model,” the ultimate goal being an increase in “face time with customers.” Given Lowe’s recent investments in robot tech, the idea of increasing human-to-human face time may seem inconsistent.
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Astronomers use a bit of Darwinian evolutionary theory coupled with good-old fashioned genelogy to trace a sampling of stars in our local Milky Way galaxy.
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Box is a cloud-centric content management, collaboration and file sharing system. But as this market now develops, narrows and new niches are thrown up… the question of whose Lego connects best to other data could be crucial.
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As the “Make In India” Initiative gathers momentum, new government incentives have been successful in attracting numerous smartphone brands to start production of their phones in India.
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Crowdsourcing is great for helping NASA organize photos or raising money for your band, but not for everything. Cartoon by Shannon Wheeler.
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For the first time, there is a nexus among availability of data, AI tools, and low-cost computation to develop AI techniques to augment today’s human-centric activities.
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A new report from an anti-nuclear group gives some alternative spin to the same old dogma – shut down all nuclear plants and replace them with renewables. Unfortunately, its conclusions are wrong, especially about the cost savings and climate effects.
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E-learning market size was valued over USD 165 billion in 2015 and is likely to grow at over 5% from 2016 to 2023, exceeding USD 240 billion.
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