IBM is exploring a potential sale of its IBM Watson Health business, WSJ is reporting, citing people familiar with the matter, as the technology giant’s new chief executive moves to streamline the company and become more competitive in cloud computing. From a report: IBM is studying alternatives for the unit that could include a sale to a private-equity firm or industry…
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IBM, Palantir Forge Partnership In Low-Code AI Data Processing Space
IBM and Palantir have announced a partnership to merge hybrid cloud, artificial intelligence (AI), data processing, and operational technology in a new enterprise offering. ZDNet reports: On Monday, the companies said the new solution, Palantir for IBM Cloud Pak for Data, will “simplify how businesses build and deploy AI-infused applications with IBM Watson and help users access, analyze, and take action…
The Future of Jobs is Here: 10 Courses to Take in 2021
By Betty Vandenbosch, Chief Content Officer, Coursera As the new year unfolds, many challenges from 2020 persist: the pandemic continues to affect economies around the world and unemployment rates are still high. As we prepare to take advantage of new opportunities in 2021, professional development is top of mind for many. How can I gain […]
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Iconic American Quiz Show Host Alex Trebek Dies at Age 80
The iconic host of America’s TV quiz show Jeopardy! has died at age 80, after 35 years of reminding contestants to always state their answers in the form of a question. Who was Alex Trebec? CNN calls him “the genial host with all the answers and a reassuring presence in the TV game-show landscape for five decades.” Notable moments include playing…
The detective aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover
Mars is a long way from 221B Baker Street, but one of fiction’s best-known detectives will be represented on the Red Planet after NASA’s Perseverance rover touches down on Feb. 18, 2021. SHERLOC, an instrument on the end of the rover’s robotic arm, will hunt for sand-grain-sized clues in Martian rocks while working in tandem with WATSON, a camera that will…
Beijing Tightens Grip Over Coronavirus Research, Amid US-China Row on Virus Origin
Nectar Gan, Caitlin Hu and Ivan Watson, reporting for CNN: China has imposed restrictions on the publication of academic research on the origins of the novel coronavirus, according to a central government directive and online notices published by two Chinese universities, that have since been removed from the web. Under the new policy, all academic papers on Covid-19 will be subject…
IBM is Deploying Its Watson AI to Help Governments Answer People’s Covid-19 Questions
Digital Trends reports:
IBM’s question-answering Watson A.I. is most famous for whooping the butt of human champions on quiz show Jeopardy. Now, IBM has repurposed its famous creation to help government agencies, health care organizations, and academic institutions around the world cope with the massive overload of questions that citizens have about the COVID-19 pandemic. This is the first time that Watson…
A Group of Ex-NSA and Amazon Engineers Are Building a ‘GitHub For Data’
A group of engineers and developers with backgrounds from the National Security Agency, Google, and Amazon Web Services are working on Gretel, an early-stage startup that aims to help developers safely share and collaborate with sensitive data in real time. TechCrunch reports: It’s not as niche of a problem as you might think, said Alex Watson, one of the co-founders. Developers…
IBM’s Debating AI Just Got a Lot Closer To Being a Useful Tool
We make decisions by weighing pros and cons. Artificial intelligence has the potential to help us with that by sifting through ever-increasing mounds of data. But to be truly useful, it needs to reason more like a human. An artificial intelligence technique known as argument mining could help. From a report: IBM has just taken a big step in that direction….
New Zealand Orders 1,300 Square Feet of Skin From US To Help Burned Volcano Victims
schwit1 shares a report from People: Doctors in New Zealand are currently awaiting nearly 1,300 square feet of skin from the United States in order to treat the dozens of victims who suffered severe burns when a volcano erupted on White Island Monday afternoon. Dr. Peter Watson, chief medical officer of Counties Manukau Health, said at a press conference Wednesday that…