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APIs and automation fix what security-team hands can’t reach
Toughening up cybersecurity sounds like a great idea. But what if adding alerts, warning signals, intel feeds, etc., results in a paranoid Mount Everest of protections? What security team has the hands to manage it? “You need all these different check boxes — and more than check boxes. But, frankly, there are just not the ...
Blockchain looking to disrupt the old school loyalty programs
Blockchain and cryptocurrency’s wide horizon of business and social potential is now visible to pretty much everyone. But the public won’t believe in its practical use cases until it sees them. They’re showing up here and there, but the expected explosion hasn’t quite popped yet. “Cryptocurrency and blockchain is funny, because everyone understands it — ...
Kitty-collecting game primes the public for blockchain explosion
What the deuce is the blockchain, anyway? That is the question CryptoKitties seeks to answer for the inquiring masses. It does so via the addictive gaming experience Pokemon Go junkies know too well. The game comes courtesy of Vancouver, Canada-based innovation studio Launch Labs Inc. (dba Axiom Zen). “The purpose is to bring the first billion ...
Cryptic warning: Are cryptocurrency scam fears boogiemen?
The internet is thundering with dire warnings about how sketchy cryptocurrency ought not replace the trusty dollar. But the paranoia may be unfounded since on close examination, the difference disappears, according to Bill Tai (pictured), venture capitalist and board director at BitFury Group Ltd. “They’re kind of the same thing,” Tai said. “It’s something that people ...
The cult of cryptocurrency is growing up and getting organized
Ask the average person what they know about cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, and they’ll likely answer that they’re scams. But deep in the trenches of the emerging crypto culture, a picture of a legitimate business ecosystem is coming into high relief. “It’s moving from a culture of Burning Man and cult of the personalities to real industry formation,” said John ...
How AI can make GDPR compliance sexy
The terms data governance and compliance usually excite businesses about as much as tax season excites wage earners. But artificial intelligence software could change that by juicing governance with analytics and insight capabilities. Best of all, properly governed data is democratized data, which puts the power of analytics in regular business people’s hands. “I call ...
Democratized AI could put the tech oligopoly in its place
Artificial intelligence — what is it good for? Can we pierce the colorful veil of hype and hurrah over AI and spy what real business and social benefits it will bring us? “At the end of the day, the question is: Is the world going to be a better place with all this AI?” said Dave ...
IBM’s AI Ladder is runged with stepping stones for data dilettantes
While many companies have hobbled together a big data analytics strategy, most have not quite reached the lofty level of artificial intelligence. For that they will need to scale, rung by rung, what IBM Corp. is calling the AI Ladder. “What I mean by an AI ladder is, you can’t do AI without machine learning; ...
Companies’ horizontal trek into the data-driven future
New horizontally scalable technologies, like machine intelligence, deep learning and automation, can ratchet enterprise performance to the ceiling — that is, if they can rally them around a core of big data at the heart of their business. “If you look at the top five companies by market cap, their greatest asset is their data,” said Dave ...
This nonprofit raises social entrepreneurs under its own roof
Gargantuan data stores, megawatt compute power, artificial intelligence, affordable cloud infrastructure — it’s all a perfect storm for online shopping recommendation engines, right? Jests aside, the public is starting to notice Silicon Valley’s relative slacking in the social sphere as compared to commerce. But a cohort of philanthropists and investors are now combining resources to ...
