Recently, the Interior Department ordered the grounding of its drone fleet that was made in China or contained Chinese parts. This comes on the heels of similar actions taken by the Department of Homeland Security in May and the United States Army in 2017. While political pundits credit the ban to the Trump administration’s policy initiatives […]
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Musk is Wrong, We’re Not Already Cyborgs
Neuralink proposes to transcend reality and make virtual experiences feel totally real. How will Elon Musk’s neuralink challenge subjectivity?
What Happens When The Unmanned Awakens And Becomes Self-Aware?
The star of the Super Bowl wasn’t on the field, but the robot in Michelob ULTRA commercial. The metal beast was featured living and playing among humans, taking any opportunity to show off his brute strength. The bot smugly proves he do anything better than his organic citizens, except down a cold one. In the closing caption, […]
We Propose a New Stack for the Net
Back in the ancient tech times, when phone signals traveled over wires and TV signals traveled through the air, the limitations of then-existing hardware and software compelled a layered, flexible approach toward getting any information from Point A to Point B. The most elegant and powerful solution to this situation was the TCP/IP stack, which […]
This NYC Startup Just Raised $4M to Create Emotionally Intelligent Chatbots
Have you ever wanted to have a real conversation with a chatbot and not just shout basic commands at it? Well now you can with Hugging Face, a social AI chatbot that has meaningful conversation with users. The concept was developed by focusing on how social and entertainment use cases can be applied to machine […]
This NYC Startup Just Raised $5.4M To Redefine Fast Fashion by Leveraging Social Media
How many times have you looked on Instagram and seen a celebrity or influencer wearing a shirt that you love, but have no idea where to get? For the 800 million Instagram users, this is an issue that happens daily. Thankfully with Choosy this problem is no more. Choosy is an AI-driven social shopping platform […]
This Groundbreaking NYC Chatbot Startup Just Raised $5M to Change The Hospitality Industry
How many times have you called multiple restaurant just to see if they are open and nobody picks up or you called to make a reservation and ended up getting put on hold for five minutes? This annoying and time-consuming ritual occurs at least once a week for New Yorkers, and it seems like there […]
This NYC Startup Just Raised $15.5M to Expand Its Creative AI Service
Apple, Nike, and Coca-Cola are some of the most universally recognized brands, partly because of their ubiquitous and iconic logos. So how can a fledgling company create a logo that can stand its own against highly recognized brands and logos? The world’s first automated branding agency, Tailor Brands, is giving companies of all sizes an […]
The Legal Dilemma Of Intelligent Machines
Walking into XPONENTIAL 2018, I was dumbfounded by the keynote speech by Professor Zeynep Tufekci of the University of North Carolina. To paraphrase, ‘In the future, we will no longer need two pilots, planes will have just one captain and a dog. The dog will be there to bite the human in case he touches anything.’ […]
Why An Algorithm May Outperform You In The Workplace
MIT Sloan School of Management hosted a conference on The Future Of Work: Capital Markets, Digital Assets, and The Disruption Of Labor. At the conference, the legendary, Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman educated audience on how machines and algorithms have the potential to dramatically alter the workplace. Kahneman had roughly thirty minutes to discuss his recent […]
This NYC Startup Just Raised $153M to be the OS for Enterprise Automation, Becoming the Newest NYC Unicorn
A recent study from Bain indicates that automation will fuel an economic boom for the next 10 -15 years, far disruptive than anything we have seen in the last 60 years. Enterprises are seeking to invest in automation and this newest wave will stimulate further investment estimated to be $8T. Poised to capitalize on this […]