Here’s last week’s new edition of my “Fav 4”, edition 3. My favorite and most noteworthy tech & innovation news bites of the week. 4 updates in an easy to consume video format. Enjoy!
Jump right into those updates:
Wow, I guess this is #digitaldisruption hitting a traditional business hard, once again. Toys ‘R’ Us will sell or close all U.S. stores, CEO tells employees. https://t.co/pO0QVzZTM1 #ToysRUs #ecommerce #Retail #fututeofretail pic.twitter.com/YpCLhcPEIK
— André Cramer (@TheAndreCramer) March 15, 2018
Sounds like a major achievement for moving #AI processing not only to the edge to beyond onto mobile devices themselves, "into your pocket": new #MIT chip design cuts #neuralnetwork power consumption by 95%. Terrific #Semiconductors #innovation! https://t.co/J3QVhSYtpM pic.twitter.com/4x4Sfa3H0N
— André Cramer (@TheAndreCramer) March 17, 2018
Wow, the hits in #AI beats human capabilities in #speechrecognition and #speechsynthesis and eventually translation are heftier. #Microsoft says its AI can translate Chinese as well as a human. https://t.co/vt0veEnZZl pic.twitter.com/W1wfWRr6UX
— André Cramer (@TheAndreCramer) March 16, 2018
Stunning #geneticengineering achievement: deleting a single gene from mosquitoes using #CRISPR can make them highly resistant to the #malaria parasite and thus much less likely to transmit the parasite to humans, according to a new research paper #biotech https://t.co/IeMNUnB86M pic.twitter.com/wb3dyk736i
— André Cramer (@TheAndreCramer) March 15, 2018
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