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TS #48 – AR in the Building!
Consider this scenario – you are making a cable tower out of something like Play-Doh. Not that the end product may be sturdy enough, but if there appears any flaw, you can easily remold it back to how you actually want it to look like. But what if you’re going to make the same thing…
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TS #47 – A Messaging App from the FBI
With all the talk about how Google and Facebook and whatnot knowing your activity on or off the internet, one would think how do drug dealers and shady people get away with it? They actually use devices and services that are encrypted, making them particularly untraceable, unless, of course, the developer of the device/ service…
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TS #46 – The Dire Need for Human Capital
With the growing demand for products and the economy as a whole growing exponentially these days post the pandemic slump, the need for human capital is also on the rise. Companies are courting employees by either incentivizing, keeping the bar low for selection or any other means. Last week, Amazon made a consideration for marijuana…
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TS #45 – Worlds Fastest Ai
On May 27 2021, a virtual ribbon cutting ceremony was held at the Berkeley Lab’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) officially launching the worlds fastest supercomputer, Perlmutter. The system is named after Saul Perlmutter , an astrophysicist at Berkeley Lab who shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to research…
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TS #44 – Dr. Smart Toilet
The stool of a person can tell a lot about their gut health. But analyzing the stool is what is difficult for those who may have gastro-intestinal problems. This can lead to patients giving unreliable data for doctors to work on, which in turn reduced the effectiveness of the treatment. The researchers at the Duke…
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TS #43 – Cecilia – The Bartending Robot
Meet Cecilia.ai, the bartending robot. It is the first robot bartender that can interact and chat with customers, which it does using conversational AI and voice recognition software. Developed by people at Israel’s GKI Group, Cecilia is basically a vending machine capable of making customized drinks. The voice control features makes for contactless ordering. It…
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TS #42 – Anjali Sud – The Indian Who Reinvented Vimeo
On May 25, Anjali Sud became the First Indian Woman to take a company public. Sud is the CEO of the video SaaS company Vimeo. Founded in 2004, even before YouTube, Vimeo was the first company to introduce the “like” button. Before she became the CEO in 2017, Vimeo was an ad-free video-media company playing…