Intel Corporation recently announced Intel and Mobileye have entered into a “definitive agreement under which Intel would acquire Mobileye.” This agreement coincides with an earlier statement recognizing that “making autonomous driving a reality for our customers is the shared ambition behind our cooperation with Intel and Mobileye. This partnership has all of the skills and talent necessary…
H&R Block is uniting with IBM’s Watson* to produce “a new, exclusive, consumer-facing experience,” altering the current 60 year old category. The move “represents the first time Watson will be applied to tax preparation, enabling millions of filers to benefit from the industry-leading expertise of H&R Block’s tax professionals, who will now partner with Watson to…
Your shopping experience is about to change within the next five years: With the Intel Responsive Retail Platform (Intel RRP) “virtual reality, artificial intelligence and data-centric tools will drive innovation and empower customers.” Using Intel’s Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud technologies to obtain data and interpret the data into useful information that ultimately assists the retailer and customer…
Weather Clouds, Image/Tech Mainstream In a recent study by ForecastWatch, “the nation’s premier authority in meteorological accuracy validation” determined consumer brands the Weather Channel and Weather Underground (both part of the Weather Company, an IBM Business (NYSE: IBM) ) “as the most accurate forecasters overall across diverse geographic regions and time periods covered.” Three geographical areas were…
IBM Watson Health and Siemens Healthineers recently formed a health-focused alliance in Population Health Management (PHM). The primary focus of this collaboration is to “help healthcare professionals navigate unprecedented changes propelled by a growing volume and diversity of health data, an aging global population, increasing prevalence of chronic diseases, changes in healthcare payment models, and the digitization…
Recently, Amazon, DeepMind/Google, Facebook, IBM and Microsoft tech industry researchers met at IBM’s Watson headquarters in New York City to discuss the implications surrounding AI technology and its usage in society. Rather than being a politically inclined group, the partnership, as in an official statement recognizes that “together, the organization’s members will conduct research, recommend best practices,…
Whirlpool, Panasonic, Noki and Bragi all have something in common, all of these companies are using IBM’s Watson IoT (Internet of Things) platform. The Watson IoT platform is “transforming our relationship with the physical world and making appliances, machines, devices, homes and cars better, safer, more intuitive and interactive.” Watson uses machine language and other techniques…
DigitalGenius recently announced the launch of its Human+AI Customer Service Application on the Salesforce AppExchange. Combining AI technology with human interaction, “customer service leaders can unlock the value of historical service logs, improve agent accuracy and efficiency, as well as reinforce their contact center with AI-powered automation” to help save time and resources. The app…