reader comments 13 with 13 posters participating Share this story Following a series of “super clarifying” meetings with shareholders, Uber’s chief executive, Dara Khosrowshahi, emailed employees on Sunday night with an arresting message: “we need to show them the money.” Mangling his metaphors, Khosrowshahi explained that the market was experiencing a “seismic shift” and the “goalposts […]
Monthly Archives: May 2022
How a French satellite operator helps keep Russia’s TV propaganda online
Enlarge / Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during the Moscow Urban Forum 2018 on July 18, 2018 in Moscow, Russia. Getty Images | Mikhail Svetlov reader comments 19 with 14 posters participating Share this story Not long after Russia steamrolled into South Ossetia in 2008, effectively annexing the territory of its southern neighbor, a group […]
Some top 100,000 websites collect everything you type—before you hit submit
reader comments 10 with 10 posters participating Share this story When you sign up for a newsletter, make a hotel reservation, or check out online, you probably take for granted that if you mistype your email address three times or change your mind and X out of the page, it doesn’t matter. Nothing actually happens […]
It will soon be easy for self-driving cars to hide in plain sight. We shouldn’t let them.
It will soon become easy for self-driving cars to hide in plain sight. The rooftop lidar sensors that currently mark many of them out are likely to become smaller. Mercedes vehicles with the new, partially automated Drive Pilot system, which carries its lidar sensors behind the car’s front grille, are already indistinguishable to the naked […]
The pandemic-accelerated digitization of the automotive supply chain
Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Read this conversation with Matthias Haberstroh, director of supply chain management at ZF Group, where he discusses the pandemic’s impact on the digitalization of the automotive supply chain and how it will define the future of the industry. Click here to […]
Enhancing agent experience with AI contact centers
Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Contact centers hold significant value for businesses, but they often have to deal with a disengaged workforce and unsatisfied customers. New AI systems can help contact centers become future-ready with a smarter workforce, happier customers, and stronger finances. Click here to […]
Responsible adoption of AI in a cloud environment
Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” The transformative potential of algorithmic systems, the reach of their effects, combined with the paucity of supervision, can bring certain reputational, financial, and ethical risks. Responsible AI is required to provide assurance to users and build continuous trust in AI-based systems. […]
Enabling new possibilities for manufacturers by unlocking the value of data from cloud
Watch this panel discussion to hear experts explain how global manufacturers can harness the power of data and analytics on top of cloud. Panel experts include: Scott Anderson, director of IT, enterprise architecture, and BI/data analytics apps, and automation CoE at John Deere; Baledev Marepally, IT leader of analytics and data science at Toyota Motors […]
The Download: Europe’s ambitious AI Act, and picturing our galaxy’s black hole
—Melissa Heikkilä This is the first image of the black hole at the center of our galaxy EHT COLLABORATION It might not look like much, but this blurry orange-and-black picture is the supermassive black hole at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, which has been pictured for the first time. Although the black hole […]
A quick guide to the most important AI law you’ve never heard of
What about outside the EU? The GDPR, the EU’s data protection regulation, is the bloc’s most famous tech export, and it has been copied everywhere from California to India. The approach to AI the EU has taken, which targets the riskiest AI, is one that most developed countries agree on. If Europeans can create a […]