Clearview AI Demonstrates the Dangers of Facial Recognition

Facial recognition technologies (FRTs) are in the news again. This time, it is Clearview AI, a small company that until recently was virtually unknown to everyone except...

AWS Data Exchange: Bringing Third-Party Data to Amazon’s Cloud

Amazon recently announced its new “AWS Data Exchange” service – users of large repositories of third-party data rejoice! With Data Exchange, AWS customers will be able to...

Cloudera Takes Steps Towards Open Standards for DataOps

DataOps is a complex topic. Industry leaders such as LinkedIn, Airbnb, and Uber have created their own operations platforms. Without open standards currently in place,...

Google Founders Are Stepping Down

Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are stepping down as CEO and President of Alphabet, respectively. Google CEO Sundar Pichai will take over as Alphabet’s CEO....

KPMG Ignite – the Swiss Army Knife of AI?

I recently had an opportunity to speak with a KPMG partner in the Canadian risk consulting practice and with the head of data science for Canada about several things,...

SAS Looks to Leverage AI to Feed the World

SAS is creating a new agricultural technology business unit and has partnered with the North Carolina Plant Sciences Initiative to help next-generation farmers and...

AWS Lake Formation Takes Pain Out of Data Lakes

AWS Lake Formation makes it easier for users to set up and manage data lakes. But organizations will face challenges in determining how to derive value from their data lakes.

Microsoft Azure Synapse Starts Performance Benchmark Race With Amazon RedShift and Google BigQuery

Microsoft claims its newly announced Azure Synapse Analytics service is four times faster than Amazon Redshift and 75 times faster than Google BigQuery. This announcement...

BlueDot Scans the World With AI for Outbreaks of Infectious Diseases

AI has been making headlines in healthcare for some time, and the current outbreak of the coronavirus in Wuhan, China, (with cases now in other parts of the world) – or,...

Facebook Will Pay Illinois Users $550-Million Settlement Over Its Use of FRT

Facebook agreed to pay $550 million to settle a class action lawsuit with a group of users in Illinois over its use of facial recognition technology (FRT) to tag...
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