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The Robots and Drones that Saved the Notre Dame Cathedral

Drones have unfortunately been pigeonholed by the media as useful in delivering our packages or acting as aerial “suicide” bombers. It’s quite sad, considering there are so many other beneficial use cases. Seriously, CB Insights generated a list of 38 ways drones will impact society, with some of the more intriguing being: Identifying natural conservation… Continue reading The Robots and Drones that Saved the Notre Dame Cathedral

Will Robots Take Your Job? Use This Tool to Find Out

One of the oddest phenomena in human behavior is something known as a gapers block – which is essentially a traffic jam that magically occurs on the opposite side of a highway from a car crash. Nothing is physically present to create a gapers block other than our curiosity to see what happened. Literally we… Continue reading Will Robots Take Your Job? Use This Tool to Find Out

KFC’s Colonel Sanders is now a digital human – Will other iconic brand mascots follow?

Look at digital humans through the lens of a corporation. Digital human influencers are more reliable, trustworthy, and less of a hassle than their flesh-and-blood counterparts. All of their actions are controlled by the organization. Everything about a digital human can be fabricated – from their personality to their struggles to the way they solve… Continue reading KFC’s Colonel Sanders is now a digital human – Will other iconic brand mascots follow?

What happens when the Internet Archive gets erased?

History is always written by the winners. It’s just the nature of the game. The conquerors speak highly of themselves while the conquered don’t get any press. The Internet, however, has made a case for the opposite – a history where all sides of the story are covered, first hand. Unfortunately, theory and practice don’t… Continue reading What happens when the Internet Archive gets erased?

AI in Marketing: 5 Ways that Deepfakes will actually bring good into the world

About 18 months ago, a frightening technology surfaced called deepfakes, which used video manipulation algorithms to convincingly edit videos of other people and literally put words right in their mouth. Marco Rubio described the technology as a propaganda weapon. Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, told US senators deepfake videos could be banned by Facebook. Others… Continue reading AI in Marketing: 5 Ways that Deepfakes will actually bring good into the world

We create more than 150 million digital maps daily… Meanwhile, you only use Google Maps

Our ability to compile location-based data and create accurate maps is one of the most underrated achievements of humankind. Many of us assume that after the “official” World Map was completed and after Google Earth was released to the masses, that everything about mapping was completed. This could not be further from the truth. Every… Continue reading We create more than 150 million digital maps daily… Meanwhile, you only use Google Maps

How Apple News+ kills the relationship between magazine and reader

If we learned anything this week, it’s that this is not the time for anyone in the media or publishing game to be taking a vacation. The media industry as we know it is under a complete redevelopment. While publishers used to fight to get the scoop before their competition. Now, they must fight to… Continue reading How Apple News+ kills the relationship between magazine and reader

Microsoft helps Kroger, Albertsons, & Walmart create the future OS of grocery stores

At first glance, it’s difficult to understand why established behemoths like Amazon (and recently Microsoft) would get into the grocery business. It’s a notoriously low margin industry. In fact, it’s one of the Top Ten Least Profitable Industries, clocking in at an average of 2.2% net profit margin, which for the leading national grocer, Kroger,… Continue reading Microsoft helps Kroger, Albertsons, & Walmart create the future OS of grocery stores