Artificial intelligence is gaining more and more attention. Intelligent self-learning programs disrupt many industries, including eCommerce, manufacturing and production lines, transportation, agriculture, logistics and supply chain, and more. Moreover, such programs automate redundant processes and don’t require a high level of creativity, increasing its overall effectiveness. “It is difficult... Read more

Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket heads skyward with Bezos aboard. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Amazon founder Jeff Bezos successfully rocketed to the edge of space and back on Tuesday, and declared that the event had made for his “Best. Day. Ever.” Bezos, his brother Mark, aeronautics legend Wally Funk and 18-year-old Oliver Daemen flew... Read more

Whatever the reasons, Bezos’ announcement was surprising. Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith defended the plan in a preflight briefing, saying that the two most recent test flights proved that all systems were ready, and since everything controlling the spacecraft runs autonomously, there was no need for human practice. “We... Read more

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Titan has raised $58 million to build an investment management platform to take on the likes of Fidelity and other traditional investment funds. The company aims to enable everyday investors access to investment experts — as well... Read more

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is flying straight to the border of space. If all goes well, the billionaire — carried in a rocket built by his spaceflight company Blue Origin and accompanied by three fellow space tourists — will join a small but growing number of people who have... Read more

Getty Images | cbarnesphotography The US government blamed the Chinese government on Monday for attacks on thousands of Microsoft Exchange servers. China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) “has fostered an ecosystem of criminal contract hackers who carry out both state-sponsored activities and cybercrime for their own financial gain,” US... Read more

Hi, everyone. Thank you for the great response to the first round of Turing’s Distinguished Leader Series (with Henrik Hussfelt, Director of Engineering at Proxy). Today I’m talking with Darren Murph, the Head of Remote at GitLab. Darren may be the first person ever to hold the Head of... Read more

The yellow star worn by French protesters over the weekend is a reference to the yellow stars Nazis forced Jews to wear, for identification purposes, during the ’30s and early ’40s.  SOPA Images/Getty France has endured three national lockdowns and its president wants to stave off a fourth. To... Read more

There is no agent of ecological imperialism more ferocious than the wild pig. Wherever Europeans invaded, from the Americas to Australia, so did their pigs, many of which escaped into the countryside to wreak havoc. The beasts tear through native plants and animals, they spread disease, they destroy crops,... Read more

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. The recent Esri User Conference 2021 was a major event for virtual replicates of real-world entities, called digital twins. Real-world digital apps are also beginning to benefit from a complementary technology known as digital threads. Digital threads... Read more