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The cost of a mile
Hedging your overhead certainty according to oil price
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Einstein 'makes every customer interaction smart'
Already a dominant force in customer relationship management, Salesforce is now laying claims to be the “world’s smartest CRM” with the launch of Einstein, its new artificial intelligence. Einstein, Salesforce says, not only adds new AI capabilities to its existing platform of applications for sales, service and marketing professionals…
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ObEN brings your voice to the Internet of Things
The Pasadena-based startup ObEN is hoping to out-Babel the Babel fish… except for speaking in any language rather than understanding any tongue. In the late Douglas Adams’ classic “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” the fictional Babel fish enabled users anywhere to understand any spoken language. The “small, yellow, leech-like”
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'Delighting' customers... or creeping them out?
More than a year ago, in the very early days of the electoral race for U.S. president, an artificial-intelligence startup called Emotient — since acquired by Apple — decided to have some fun and apply its facial-expression-analyzing, emotion-reading algorithms to the Republicans vying for the GOP nomination. The results? Ted Cruz
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Billion-dollar Chinese startup aims to create 'ecosystem of digital life'
From digital health records to real-time fitness trackers to telehealth and cognitive computing systems like IBM’s Watson, healthcare has been undergoing revolution after revolution in recent years. In turn, all the health- and fitness-related data that’s being generated by individuals today is creating the potential for even more
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Automated recruitment aims to help human job-seekers be heard
Despite the growing use of automation in the workplace, some jobs are still best done by real, live humans. After all, robots aren’t yet cooking and serving en masse in restaurants or tidying guest rooms in large hotels. One novel startup in Hong Kong, though, envisions machines doing better
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The next as-a-service offering? Artificial intelligence, or AIaaS
If you regularly follow developments in information technology, particularly in the cloud, you’ll be familiar with terms like PaaS (platform as a service) or IaaS (infrastructure as a service), but what about AIaaS? Artificial intelligence as a service might not yet be a widely available cloud offering, but it’