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The Secret Sauce Behind NPR One (NPR)

Algorithms are a crucial part of how the news reaches you in a digital world. But we know many people find them opaque and controversial. Filter Bubble is an expression coined to c... More

6 Big Data Predictions for 2017 (icrunchdata)

Blockchain transforms select financial service applications- In 2017, there will be select, transformational use cases in financial services that emerge with broad implications for... More

AI is Late: 3 Things to Accelerate It (Information Week)

Defining and establishing a framework for AI governance - To spur AI development, the private and public sectors must partner to define what we will and will not let AI do. Many cu... More

Facebook is Building a Tool to Hunt Copyright Infringing Videos (Engadget)

YouTube isn't the only site record labels are taking issue with when it comes to copyright infringement. Financial Times reports that music publishers want Facebook to license musi... More

Microsoft Azure Announces the Availabilty of R3’s Corda Blockchain (iTech Post)

The latest offer from Microsoft is the packaged installation files for Corda available in a series of block chain called Project Bletchley. This project would introduce a modular f... More

The Tech Behind Bitcoin Could Help Artists and Protect Collectors. So Why Won’t They Use It? (Artsy)

Blockchain, or the “spreadsheet in the sky,” as [Masha] McConaghy likes to call it, acts like a giant online ledger which records every entry and updates everyone who is part o... More

Netflix, Streaming Video are Replacing Hotel Pay-Per-View Entertainment (Skift)

More hotels are enabling guests to be able to watch streaming channels like Netflix and Hulu from their hotel room TVs, and exploring casting technology solutions to be able to do ... More

NBA, Players’ Union Pushing for Wearable Tech on the Court (ReadWrite)

Reports out of the tentative negotiations for the collective bargaining agreement (CBA) between the NBA and players union indicate that a wearables committee is set to be formed. T... More

Voice is the Next Big Platform, and Alexa Will Own It (Backchannel)

If you happen to live in one of the six million US homes that have so far purchased an Amazon Echo, you may think Alexa is just a voice emanating from a cylindrical speaker that kn... More

Blockchain in 2017: The Year of Smart Contracts (PCMag)

IBM and Microsoft are two of the major tech players in the so-called Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS) space, using their public cloud platforms and developer tools to help enterprise... More

Sony Android TVs Adds Google Home Support (SCN)

Sony Electronics has added support for Google Home voice control to every one of its 4K HDR televisions with Android TV, as well as a slew of internet-connected speakers, thanks to... More

Retail Chatbots Show the Power of AI, Just in Time for the Holidays (Adweek)

The Mall of America has partnered with IBM to integrate the company's Watson technology to create a "mobile concierge" that helps shoppers make their way around. Using Watson's con... More

AWS Launches Enterprise Tier of its QuickSight Business Intelligence Tool (VentureBeat)

Public cloud infrastructure provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced the availability of an enterprise tier of its Amazon QuickSight cloud software for business intellige... More

IBM’s First Connect-a-Thon to Build Ecosystem on its Blockchain (Coin Telegraph)

IBM will be hosting the first ever Hyperledger Fabric v1.0 Connect-a-Thon starting on Dec. 17. The Connect-a-Thon is part of IBM’s efforts to become a partner for companies that ... More

TiVo: Voice Search to Go Mainstream in 2017 (Advanced Television)

Charles Dawes, Senior Director of International Marketing at TiVo, has outlined his industry predictions for 2017. Next year, TV consumption is expected to shift, while advancement... More

The 2017 Challenge for Blockchain: Getting Executives to Understand it (CNBC)

Will 2017 be the year blockchain becomes part of the mainstream business culture? This past year has seen the technology used in various ways, and companies are throwing money behi... More

Microsoft Launches Azure Blockchain Service in India (CCN)

Microsoft has launched its Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) offering to provide blockchain solutions to customers over its Azure cloud platform. Microsoft Azure customers can tap the... More

Why Google, Microsoft and Amazon Love the Sound of Your Voice (Bloomberg)

Voice recognition has come a long way in the past few years. But it's still not good enough to popularize the technology for everyday use and usher in a new era of human-machine in... More

Artificial Intelligence Will Drive Consolidation in 2017 (MediaPost)

Artificial intelligence is the logical next step as we evolve from a pure “big data” conversation into one of data mined for specific use cases. It’s not about simply uncove... More

IBM Building Blockchain Ecosystem (InfoWorld)

IBM believes blockchain technology, with its capability to create an essentially immutable ledger of digital events, will alter the way whole industries conduct transactions. To ma... More

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